Which preposition to use with watchmen
Isaiah compares the blind watchman of Israel to dogs, saying, "They are dumb; they cannot bark."
"Bird of the South, my Rondinello" Flat-Flat! Cesario (calling up to watchman on the Chapel roof).
You know Erastus is the porter and watchman at the bank, and known to be a fighter.
The watchmen in the tops were always on the lookout to see if there were shoals ahead.
James Fairbairn is a fine, powerful Scotchman; he had been night watchman to the English Provident Bank for fifteen years, and was then not more than forty-three or forty-four years old.
"'The master, mumthe poor masterhe is dead, mumI am sure he is dead!'accompanied by vigorous thumps against the glass partition, and not very measured language on the part of the watchman from the outer office, such as'Why don't you open the door instead of making that row?' "Mrs. Ireland is not the sort of woman who, under any circumstances, would lose her presence of mind.
Except the Lord the house sustain, The builder's labour is in vain; Except the city he defend, And to the dwellers safety send, In vain are sentinels prepared, Or arméd watchmen for the guard.
Enter Constable, three watchmen with halberdes.
In an hour they were far up the mountain, lying side by side on a great flat rock, looking across a deep impassable valley and over two rounded hilltops, where the scrub spruces looked like pins on a cushion, to the bare, rugged hillside where Megaleep stood out like a watchman against the blue sky.
It is here that I began to stay, with the watchman as company for the night.
* * PIOUS WATCHMEN IN NORWAY.
Near by were little thatched shelters, erected for the temporary use of night watchmen during the harvest season.
In the original part of the church note (1) on N. of sanctuary, elaborate Jacobean tomb with effigy, in legal robes, of J. Farewell (1609); (2) effigies of three grandchildren tucked away in a small recess in wall opposite; (3) grotesque corbels on E. wall of N. chapel; (4) good bench-ends (observe representation of the Resurrection in N. chapel, and of a night watchman near font).
Methinks I now hear this language proclaimed in the secret of my heart: I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.