looker-out

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

My day : reminiscences of a long life, 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.

Diary of a Pilgrimage 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.

Far Away and Long Ago 1881

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

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer 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."

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish 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. "

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking 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.’

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847