“Above the imperial doors the onlooker discovers the princely bicephalous eagle.”

“In this sense the spectator is doubly positioned as an onlooker outside the text.”

“It put the onlooker in the position of a privileged eavesdropper, able to pick up every nuance of an intensely private exchange.”

“Connected by an air line to a surface boat, he entered the loch as a crowd of onlookers cheered him on.”

“In 1924, 6,500 Klansmen paraded through downtown Indianapolis to a cheering crowd of 75,000 onlookers after Klan election victories.”

“The mystic overtones of a suffering, bearded and often bare-chested man waving wanly to onlookers gazing up at him have also struck chords.”