I am pleased to tell you, silent night-watchers that some of the day-birds are likewise with us.

"John Wesley Farwell, Jr.," said that young man to himself, "this thing is not your discoverybut how does that bit of Keats' go?" 'Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacificand all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien,' There you have it!

They seemed to have no suspicion as yet that they were under observation, for as they walked they chatted among themselves, the sound of their German gutturals reaching the watchers, but unfortunately not distinctly enough to be audible.

Pursuing the way a little farther in another direction, you find another weary watcher by the midnight lamp.

The wounded, the women and children, were taken, as far as possible, and the laden train moved away, leaving many anxious watchers behind.

'And so care I for all,' cried the watcher; and she drew her companion with her to the edge of the abyss, and they sat down upon it low among the rocks to escape the rushing of the wind.

But Thomas Roch had each time disappointed his watchers.

Lifting his face, he encircled the watchers with a gaze at once of imploration and of command.

Thus, from the very first, it seemed to me that Hornby and his friends had very cleverly tricked me for some mysterious purpose, and afterwards ingeniously evaded their watchers and got clean away.

About ten o'clock that evening Lancelot and Tregarva were walking stealthily up a ride in one of the home-covers, at the head of some fifteen fine young fellows, keepers, grooms, and not extempore 'watchers,' whom old Harry was marshalling and tutoring, with exhortations as many and as animated as if their ambition was 'Mourir pour la patrie.

Closely, without sound, followed the watcher, and the two, like man and shadow, went out from the house into the quarry of the moon-eyed black leopard.

He forgot the silent watcher at the foot of the bed, forgot little Mrs. Lorimer hovering in the shadows, and Tudor waiting with the nurse behind him.

From this point onwards I had the feeling that the long grass and the clumps of bushes held watchers.

The next morning, as soon as it was light, he invited the watchers to come in and warm themselves, but they declined.

Young Lennox immediately joined the two watchers at the brink.

The vague shapes of the mummy-cases standing erect in the wall-cases, loomed out dim and gigantic, silent watchers keeping their vigil with the memories of untold centuries locked in their shadowy breasts.

I am fighting that black passion which makes of me a sleepless watcher and thinker.

Evidently the doctor had, by some fiendish trick, succeeded in overcoming his powerful watcher, and he was now removing all trace of the body, preparatory to his own flight to the ends of the earth.

Ah, you know something now; but there's one thing you don't know, and that is, that rich men can pay watchers to discover those who search into their iniquities.

Beside them he placed watchers who were always to have their faces toward Troy.

It was believed that the ghost of the person to whom the skull had belonged would protect the watcher against harm from the eagle, and besides that, the skull, or ghost, would make the watcher invisible, like a ghost.

I will also admit that when it was first made apparent to menot by the sounds of voices which the others heard, but by the use of my reason which I humbly believe is also a gift of Godthat the way in which I could best serve both those of the city and my son Martin, who is over them, was to lead the way with the children and all the helpless to La Clairière, thus relieving the watchers, there was for a time a great struggle in my bosom.

My house, nor scorn the Watchers of strange lands! POSEIDON.

He was not more than two hundred yards away from the clump of trees which screened his watchers from view.

IO, in the Greek mythology a daughter of INACHOS (q. v.), beloved by Zeus, whom Hera out of jealousy changed into a heifer and set the hundred-eyed Argus to watch, but when Zeus had by Hermes slain the watcher, Hera sent a gadfly to goad over the world, over which she ranged distractedly till she reached Egypt, where Osiris married her, and was in connection with him worshipped as Isis.