Sightseer

Getty Images A sightseer made a home movie as others enjoyed the view from the top of the Empire State Building in 1952. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Jon Levy/AFP/Getty Images Policemen rushed to control pedestrians around the Empire State Building after a Palestinian gunman went on a shooting rampage on the 86th floor observation deck on Feb. 23, 1997, killing one sightseer and wounding six others before killing himself. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Accidents can stop traffic for hours when a gawking sightseer drives off a particularly impressive curve. ❋ Lisa Abend (2011)

Only the iron gallery, on a level with the entrance from the road, was left unsubmerged; the central depth had been converted into a huge tank of muddy water, while the sightseer looked vainly for the engines and carriages that lay drowned beneath. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perched on a promontory of chalk cliffs overlooking an Atlantic estuary, the tiny fortified fishing village of Talmont-sur-Gironde, around 450 kilometers southwest of Paris, commands a site sufficiently dramatic to impress the most jaded sightseer. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2011)

Being a compulsive sightseer, I wrapped myself in a headscarf and walked to the next entry point. ❋ Olivia Sterns (2010)

Whether you're a long-time student of history or a casual sightseer looking for an interesting diversion, the historic sites that changed the course of history are well within your reach. ❋ Manal Khan (2010)

An avid sightseer who loves paintings and old churches and Italian landscapes, she has developed macular degeneration. ❋ Emily W. Upham (2010)

Instead, the Warden of Land and Sea merely ambled along in a leisurely fashion, stopping to rest in country inns, as if he were nothing more grand than a sightseer returning from a foreign holiday. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

We waited until the sightseer buses left the parking lot, and walked down the path to the viewing area. ❋ Unknown (2008)

With those games, I tend to view the collapsed skyscrapers and burning cars as if I were a half-ironic, half-enthusiastic sightseer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The solution to this problem, according to Percy, is not to get rid of museums but for 'the sightseer to be prepared to enter into a struggle to recover a sight from a museum' ❋ Unknown (2009)

She jerked the wheel around a slow-cruising sightseer, stepping on the gas. ❋ Patterson, James (2008)