Looker Out

All this is not cheerful to the looker-out, and having seen it once, I look no more. ❋ Unknown (1909)

For fifty miles before one reaches Munich, the land is flat, stale, and apparently very unprofitable, and there is little to interest the looker-out. ❋ Unknown (1893)

The _mirador_ was so high that standing on it one was able to see even over the tops of the tall plantation trees, and to protect the looker-out there was a high wooden railing round it, and against this the tall flag-staff was fastened. ❋ Unknown (1881)

More definite was an observation made on his movements one afternoon by a looker-out from a window of the Nautical Almanac Office. ❋ Simon Newcomb (1872)

"since which time, neither eye nor ear of any has had trace of thy movements, until we met thee at the postern, stationed like a looker-out on his watch." ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

I sometimes think you are the most adroit and unblushing looker-out for number one I ever knew; and I can't for the life of me understand why I don't turn you out of doors. " ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)

“And, that thou mayst not think this a fiction, Salamis still keeps the statue under the form of the maiden; it has also a temple under the name of ‘Venus, the looker-out.’ ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (1847)