nightwatch
Example Sentences
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She learned the true method of atonement in the stillness of that nightwatch.
From The Old Homestead by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
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 Lyn Venable
Among other things, he regularly assisted Madigan by relieving him of outdoor duties on the day after his nightwatch, when the chief meteorologist was due for a "watch below."
From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
The redcoats and the nightwatch pursued Dick to the very edge of the wharf.
From The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York by Harry Moore
Through the nightwatch unflagging study Shall banish regrets perforce; As soon as the east is ruddy Our bugle shall sound "To Horse!"
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
