nightwatch
Example Sentences
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Redcoats, nightwatch, sailors and populace joined in the pursuit, pressing the young patriot sorely.
From The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York by Moore, Harry
The morning call is about to begin, and my nightwatch is over.
From Rudyard Kipling by Palmer, John
In a more innocent state of society such as that which exists in the north, such a thing as a nightwatch is undreamed of.
From The Fur Bringers A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Footner, Hulbert
"Ten o'clock of a sultry night and all's well!" drawled the nightwatch, recovering his lantern and lighting it.
From The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York by Moore, Harry
The nightwatch must have been somewhere about on patrol, probably only a few hundred feet away, on the other side of the ship.
From Grove of the Unborn by Venable, Lyn
