17 Metaphors for watching

They can swear as his money was all right and his watch and chain all rightthere'd been no robbery.

The watch was his model.

Her watch is o'er the cradle cast, Through childhood's wild and flow'ry maze; Her hand would lead through youth's gay scenes, And smooth the path of riper days. Would shield from each impending ill, Would guard from ev'ry dang'rous snare.

But, in this degenerate age, fraud and a legion of ills infecting the world, no virtue can be safe, no honour be secure; while wanton desires, diffused into the hearts of men, corrupt the strictest watches and the closest retreats, which, though as intricate, and unknown as the labyrinth of Crete, are no security for chastity.

And her wrist-watch is platinum set with diamonds.

The watch I know is Mr. Effingham's, and I ascribe the trumpet to Sir George.

His watch and chain are no his ain His claes cost eighteenpence; Wi' cuffs and collar shabby, 0' mashers he's the daddy; Hats off, stand aside and let Past Tooralladdie!"

"The watch and chain are solid silver," murmured Andy.

Every watch was thus a separate and individual work.

Regular watches and irregular watches had been keptwatches against storm, which might sweep the brig with all on board out to sea, watches against desertion, watches against they knew not what.

But the watch had been his mother's gift, and he was resolute never to part with it into such hands.

Morning Watch was an experience to J.W.

" Whatever visions of a happy youth, whatever mournful recollections of the sports of her own children, might belong to them, those now with her knew not of them, but they thought that her long and pathetic watch had at last become more a habit with her than any conscious recalling of the past, and they hoped it might be so.

" "Yes, Massa," replied Tom, sheering out of the way of the upraised whip; "but it peers like Massa's watch be leetle bit faster dan de sun dis ere mornin'.

Let's go!" The watch and chain was a cheap enough price to pay for that two days' entertainment and the acquaintance of such a splendid old king of thieves.

your watch is mortall, and may erre.

Nor is this my faith fairly liable to any inconvenience, if only it be remembered that it is a spiritual working, of which I speak, and a spiritual knowledge,not through the 'medium' of image, the seeking after which is superstition; nor yet by any sensation, the watching for which is enthusiasm, and the conceit of its presence fanatical distemperature.

17 Metaphors for  watching