nightwatch

Example Sentences

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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 Mawson, Douglas, Sir

He was not in the least afraid of meeting anyone at that time except the nightwatch, to whom he could easily explain his plight.

From Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life by Frank, Ulrich

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 Moore, Harry

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

She learned the true method of atonement in the stillness of that nightwatch.

From The Old Homestead by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)