Here, during the greater part of the day, I maintained a strict watch over the gardens.

Four hundred and seventy surgeons and assistant-surgeons were attached to the hundred regiments of infantry.[80] It is made the duty of the medical officer to keep constant watch over all the means and habits of life among the troops,"to see that all regulations for protecting the health of troops, in barracks, garrisons, stations, or camps, are duly observed."

The wind was in his face and he kept a sharp watch for game.

Slowly, and keeping a careful watch in all directions, I made the circuit of the Pit; but found little else, that I had not already seen.

The squirrels, leaving their accustomed feeding-grounds, betook themselves to the leafy oaks to gnaw out the acorn stores of the provident woodpeckers, but the latter kept up a vigilant watch upon their movements.

Armstrong had the middle watch, which ends at four in the morning, and he was relieved by Allardyce.

"I will pretend to-morrow to lose this watch-bracelet in the wood," and she held up her slim wrist to show me the little enameled watch set in her bracelet.

He himself during the fourth watch, hastens to them by the same route by which the enemy had gone, and sends on all the cavalry before him.

In the centre of the pear-shaped body a clear round space could occasionally be discerned, but not always; and careful watching showed that this clear vacuity appeared gradually, and then shut up and disappeared suddenly, at regular intervals.

But men preoccupied with their own concerns do not keep anxious watch, and our precautions were needless.

Then came the arrival of the Ramchunder, the going ashore, and the entrance of the two men into the little home where Amelia was keeping her faithful watch over her feeble father.

There is another class of songs, half of the sea, half of the shore, which the fishermen and coasters croon in their lonely watches.

The fuddy duddy watch maker.

Andy saw the clown go over to a stool and place a homely, old-fashioned watch and a spoon and medicine bottle Miss Nellis had given him upon it.

The fuddy duddy watch maker.

The bearings of direct acting screw engines require constant watching, as, if there be any disposition to heat manifested by them, they will probably heat with great rapidity from the high velocity at which the engines work.

Always thus, my Princess? Is this wise, By day with fasts and ceaseless coil of labour; About the ungracious poorhands, eyes, feet, brain O'ertasked alike'mid sin and filth, which make Each sense a plagueby night with cruel stripes, And weary watchings on the freezing stone, To double all your griefs, and burn life's candle, As village gossips say, at either end?

The black disguise, the warning whistle shrill, 420 And ear still busy on its nightly watch, Were not for me, brought up in nothing ill: Besides, on griefs so fresh my thoughts were brooding still.

It involved incessant labour in examining lofty mountain peaks in order to select suitable sites for stations, and subsequently days and nights of anxious watching during the progress of the observations, whilst food and water (when snow was not lying on the ground) were scarce, and mists and clouds hung round the mountains.

Scarcely had the soft, liquid sound therefrom resulting been addressed for a minute to the auricular orifice, when a singularly pleasing smile wreathed the countenance of the Ritualistic organist, his eyelids flew up like the spring-covers of two valuable hunting-case watches, and he suddenly arose to a sitting position upon the rug and began feeling around for the bed-clothes.

Shih-niang waited until the fifth watch; then she drew from under her mattress a bag containing a hundred and fifty ounces in small silver, and said: "This is my secret reserve.

"Nonobut she lost her watch as we came along, a very handsome watch, and that troubles her.

"He may have one of those cheap watches, though it isn't like him to buy that kind.

Some of Durell's ships destroyed the French 'long-shore batteries near this Traverse, at the lower end of the island of Orleans, while the rest kept ceaseless watch to seaward, anxiously scanning the offing, day after day, to make out the colours of the first fleet up.

But while he kept a continual watch on every movement of Rodolph's, his quick ear lost not one word of the speech that Hobomak was rendering into his native tongue.