overlookers

I think overseers ought to be called overlookers, because they oversee so little and overlook so much.

Ishmael In the Depths Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

Tenet and his masters assumed, correctly, that given the mood of the times and the lack of spine among lawmakers, congressional "overseers" would relax into their accustomed role as congressional overlookers.

CIA Torturers Running Scared 2009

The only people not in blue canvas were the overlookers of the work-places and the orange-clad Labour Police.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

When non-automatic looms were more widely used in the UK, many loom overlookers were of the opinion that, when correctly maintained and adjusted, overpick motions should give a smoother picking action, with less wear of components, than would underpick motions.

Chapter 6 1983

Then came crowds of men, with overlookers and policemen.

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found T.P. Wilson

Obtain estimates of the culture of Sugar and Cotton, to show what difference it makes where the planter resides on his estate, or where he employs attorneys, overlookers, &c.

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

Every eye was strained, and every nerve as highly strung as the gearing of the revolving wheels, the keen glances of the overlookers seeing to it that none paused until the hour of release.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

In proportion as the wretched multitude there assembled increased, other Capuchins resorted thither; and here were superintendents, confessors, administrators, nurses, cooks, overlookers of the wardrobes, washerwomen, in short, everything that was required.

Chapter XXXI 1909

The only people not in blue canvas were the overlookers of the work-places and the orange-clad

When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

Money would come somehow, it always had; but Hamilton dethroned, shoved out of the ranks of planters and merchants, reduced to the status of one of his own overlookers, almost was a new and strange being, and she dared not bid forth her hiding thoughts.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902