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- noun Plural form of
beholder .
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Examples
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Many be also called beholders of God who are yet different in some points from what we have just said.
The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905
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The most attractive feature of the procession in the eyes of the beholders was the Lady
Windsor Castle William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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He opened his eyes and looked around, staring with a wild, bewildered, and ghastly look, which moved the pity of all the beholders, that is, of all but
Margaret of Anjou Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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But what was most of all astonishing to the beholders was the courage of the children; for not one of these children was so far overcome by these torments, as to name Caesar for their lord.
The Wars of the Jews; or the history of the destruction of Jerusalem Flavius Josephus 1709
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Beauty is subjective and in the eye of the beholder, but when the beholders are the PGA. com Advisory Board*, beauty is pretty definitive.
We Blog A Lot 2008
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The little circle of admiring beholders which is always on hand inspecting these splendid horsemen was present, of course, with varying elements, and I had to wait a few minutes until a small number of innocuous spectators coincided with the aphelion of the periodical policeman.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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Precisely because politics is in the eye of the beholder, we leave it to the beholders to tell us when they perceive political activity at their place of worship.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The malaise of Japan exists mainly in the eyes of Western beholders, who fail to grasp the enduring dynamism of its state-directed, bank-centric, export-oriented capitalism.
The Future of Nukes, and of Japan Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011
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Their genius is felt not in the ready, perhaps instant, recognizability of their work - although their art requires such distinctiveness to maintain its persuasion - but in its abiding ability to transport its beholders by oscillating between fantasy and reality, banality and magic, intimacy and universality, the dreamt and the dumb.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams Peter Frank 2010
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Their genius is felt not in the ready, perhaps instant, recognizability of their work - although their art requires such distinctiveness to maintain its persuasion - but in its abiding ability to transport its beholders by oscillating between fantasy and reality, banality and magic, intimacy and universality, the dreamt and the dumb.
Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: American Masters, American Dreams Peter Frank 2010
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