26688 examples of watches in sentences

For a small bay lies westward a little, where he who watches night after night may see a certain rare moth fluttering along the edge of the tide, just at the end of evening or the beginning of dawn.

Once, being sent on an errand by ZeusI don't remember what errandI was playing just over your Trinachija, and I perceived Lampecja, who, together with Featusa, watches your herds there.

"I suppose," he said, "there is some truth in the saying that Providence watches over bankrupts, kittens, and lawyers.

We must see to this at once; if they put us in different rooms we're donewe shall be destroyed singly in the watches of the night.

He watches it all, for his mind is still clear, but he does not take sides.

For which of all my cares, of all my watches, My services (too many and too mightie To find rewards) am I thus recompenced, Not lookd on, not saluted, left forgotten Like one that came to petition to your honours, Over the shoulder sleighted? Bred.

His only recreation save eating is being led about by the mulatto turnkey, the one human being with whom he, dimly understanding what is fit for him, will at all consort; and having wild pines thrown down to him from the Poui tree above by the spider monkey, whose gambols he watches with pardonable envy.

The Indian Government jealously watches the emigration, and through agents of its own rigidly tests the bona-fide 'voluntary' character of the engagement.

Simoun now exposed the third tray, which was filled with watches, cigar- and match-cases decorated with the rarest enamels, reliquaries set with diamonds and containing the most elegant miniatures.

He is a child who needs to be put in leading-strings the moment he comes over the side, lest he give way to an unconquerable propensity of his to fry gold watches and devour bank-notes, à la sandwich, with his bread and butter.

Jack watches her out of sight, and then, when the moment of escape is past, he looks below to see if there be any danger, and there he spies Don Sanchez, regarding him from the open door, where he stands, as if to guard it.

Night-Watches.

She watches an interminable flock of sheep jump over a wall till her head spins.

King David "remembered Him upon his bed, and meditated upon Him in the night-watches."

They say she sits and watches for her lad as ran away.

Oh![She darts aside, behind the kennel, and watches.

"He watches the well below, and the water-carriers descending with their jars," said the Pathan, "and he talks with his friends.

The Sikhs were divided into watches and given their appointed places.

Photographers began to adjust their distances; the detached men in bowlers looked at their watches; the cocked hats drew nearer to the Duomo door.

The Zillahdar looks out for good lands to change for bad ones, where this is necessary, and where no objection is made by the farmer; sees that the Tokedars do their work properly; reports rain, blight, locusts, and other visitations that might injure the crop; watches all that goes on in his zillah, and makes his report to the planter whenever anything of importance happens in his particular part of the cultivation.

Seated on the branch of some overhanging tree, while his keen eye scans the depths below, he watches for a large fish, and as it passes, he lets fly his arrow with unerring aim, and impales the luckless victim.

And there he lay, as the watches of that haunted night passed over the lonely camp, crying startled sentences, and fragments of sentences, into the folds of his blanket.

On such runs one man steers the boat and watches the forested shoreline for three or four hours at a time, while his mate reads or sleeps; then they change off.

Hevving watches over your Alonzo!' "Not so.

He and Mr. Carr were to divide the watches of the day and night.

26688 examples of  watches  in sentences