Even as the onlookers gazed horror-stricken at the sudden blotting out of the dirigible before their eyes the loud roar of the explosion of its superheated gas reached their ears.
Of theseonlookers not one had any more than a hazy idea of where the vessel was bound and why.
The majority were natives, but there was a sprinkling of Englishmen in the inner circle, and some soldiers from the barracks were doing police duty in keeping the onlookers at a distance from the aeroplane.
The aeroplane wheeled eastward, and shot forward at a speed that made the onlookers gasp.
The four onlookers at this strange spectacle felt deeply moved by the sight of Valentin as he leaned on his servant's arm; he was wasted and pale; he limped as if he had the gout, went with his head bowed down, and said not a word.
Altering her tactics, by a supreme effort she hurled her whole great bulk clear of the water for a moment, and the fascinated onlookers beheld the sharks hanging from various parts of her gleaming body by their serrated teeth.
Maddened with pain and rage, she dashed this way and that, but the sharks hung to her side with a persistency and ferocity that made the fascinated onlookers shudder.
It was alleged, probably with truth, that the officer in charge would allow his prisoners to be supplied with drink by sympathetic onlookers as, in Indian file, the procession passed through the public streets.
He let his shoulders droop suddenly, as though he was tired, and at the murmur of disappointment from many onlookers he began to back slowly away from Halgersen.
The isolatedonlookers follow, more slowly, more cautiously.
The isolated onlookersfollowed more slowly, more cautiously, and presently saw many vexed faces returning.
The onlookers had not, in the presence of this inconceivable phenomenon, to submit to the sort of initiation through which I had passed.
The man had just made his way out of the band of onlookers who stood gathered round us and was slipping through the shifting masses of the crowd.
Even snarling onlookers became curious, and their faces began to wear the half-smiling, half-humiliated expression of people who are not within hearing of the joke which is producing infectious laughter.
Such restoratives as suggested themselves to the chief onlookers were applied, and, to the surprise of every one, the diver began to show signs of returning life.
During this process, Grandpa the monkey was permitted to come out of the cabin and entertain the crowd of onlookers with his antics, which he did to perfection, as he had done at other stops.
These flyers hurried away through a gap in the circle of onlookers toward their own machine before our friends could accost them.
It did not take more than a glance to convince the onlookers that he was no hardened criminal.
To the Gridley onlookers it sent a shock of dismay.
The murmur went up, eagerly, as the onlookers saw Prescott land his right fist in solid impact against Ripley's right eye.
Whatever is going on, our rôle must be that of quiet onlookers only.
In an ecstasy of delight, the onlookers began pressing more closely about the men, narrowing the circle.
And now everybody in the country is playing quiet onlookers on us.
It was an agonizing scene to watch, and to the onlookers it seemed as real as if they had been gazing at the peril itself instead of its counterfeit presentment in smoke-pictures.
As the group approached the altar the chanting suddenly stopped and the onlookers rose to their feet.
I know that all we millions of reasonable civilised onlookers are prepared to spend our last shillings and give all our lives now, rather than see Germany unbeaten.
A ghost-show used to come yearly to Thrums on the merry Muckle Friday, in which the illusion was contrived by hanging a glass between the onlookers and the stage.
They went so fast, indeed, that onlookers shook their heads, and their best friends would have applied the brake had it been possible.
As a chorus of delight greeted all these gifts, he became by turns the leathery saffron which, for him, was paleness, and the dark reddish-purple that made onlookers always believe that he was holding his breath.
So quickly had it happened as the two men stood together, so sure was the stroke, that not until the king went down on his back and the red spot on his robe slowly widened, did the dazed onlookers realize what had happened.
The onlookers watched fascinated, much as the shivering little monkeys are hypnotized by the dance of Kaa, the rock python, before they are devoured by him.
There swept over the onlookers a wave of incredible emotion then, as they saw LeVallon move towards them, as though he would pass through them and escape.
No girl, he remembered, could look back upon what she had experienced in the Studio, upon what she had herself said and done, before a crowd of onlookers too, without deep feelings of a mixed and even violent kind.
Other officers rode or walked by; civil functionaries, journalists, and a straggling line of onlookers swelled the stream which set towards the Palace.
Sophy and Marie followed in his wake through the opening which the onlookers made for him.
Then the police began to drive the onlookers away; at each onset they fell back a few steps, hesitating, and then stood still, laughing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "onlookers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
