A bystander said that these were men who had run back into the building to drink the flaming spirit, and had dropped insensible, and been crushed when the walls fell in.
"Hetty Wesley"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He was leaning towards the postboys as he spoke, but as the words left his lips they were half drowned by a piercing shriek that rang out upon the night, sending a thrill through every bystander.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
The kind and wise admonitions it conveys, only distantly indeed bearing on the religious side of the question, many may read with much profit:- As a bystander I see you working too much, and looking at times overwrought; and I ask myself, what is this man's aim?
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby