" Fifteen minutes later Ensign Edwards, with a quartermaster, Timmins, the bo's'n's mate, and a crew, was heading a straight course toward his first command, with instructions to "keep company and watch for signals"; and intention to break into the brass-bound chest and ferret out what clue lay there, if it took dynamite.

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

It grew no bigger than a pea, and I looked, with my whole soul, to witness the final end of our Systemthat system which had borne the world through so many aeons, with its multitudinous sorrows and joys; and now Suddenly, something crossed my vision, cutting from sight all vestige of the spectacle I watched with such soul-interest.

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.

They found Carter, whose watch on deck it was, reprimanding the lookout.

They seemed to the sense of mystic apprehension that for the moment held possession of me, to be everywherein the bunks, on the floor, back in the shadows, watching, watching, watching from the advantage of another world.

The hamlet would be without a spire; philanthropy would be almost unknown; there would be neither night-watch nor morning-watch of united prayer.

" Acton remained watching at the window while the others hastily cleared away all traces of the feast; the Triple Alliance retired to their own room, and nothing further was heard or seen of the mysterious visitor.

I watched by it a number of evenings, and though there were a plenty of peepers, piping merrily enough, yet I could not get sight of one to save me.

Reaching the tower, I made myself as comfortable as circumstances would permit, and settled down to watch through the night.

"She left a gold watch to Chet," Mrs. Bradley told them.

She and other children Mary had saved and adopted were watching beside Mary's bed through the night.

"I set apart," he writes, "an hour or two a day for religious retirement; I communicated every week; I watched against all sin, whether in word or deed.

He is describing a walk over a battlefield on the Ancre after one of our victories there last November: "It is a curious thing to walk over enemy trenches that I have watched like a tiger for weeks and weeks.

Then he stood silently watching as with swift skilfulness John swathed the horse's limbs in flannel.

Sayres and myself were watched during the night by a regular guard of two men, armed with muskets, who were relieved from time to time.

He takes that di'mon' watch out of his pocket, glances at it, and goes off smooth as cream, sayin' 'Good-night.'

One after another the fugitives came flying past me,people who had escaped from the armed bands whom I could now see on the watch near the pit's mouth.

My father watched without a word.

Therefore all they could do was to beset the sanctuary, and to maintain a strong watch about it, till the King's pleasure were further known.

" Laban had good experience of Jacob's fidelity; yet that would not satisfy, but, "The Lord," said he, "watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.

What could her stolid temperament conjecture of a man whom she saw, in one of his fits of passion, throwing a favourite watch under the fire, and grinding it to pieces with a poker?

Later Fango watched until Sextius, trusting in the truce, was free from fear, and invaded Africa.

Thus, the night prior to ordination to the priesthood, the night prior to a great battle, was spent in watching before the altar.

I tremble lest this visit should be known, for we are encircled with the ministers of the state, and not a palace in Venice is more narrowly watched than this.