nightwatch

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Making his way along the wharf, Dick presently saw a nightwatch with a lantern at the end of a long pole coming toward them.

From The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York by Moore, Harry

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

The nightwatch, who made the rounds of the court and park once an hour, need only find the ladder leaning against the balcony and all was lost.

From The Song of Songs by Sudermann, Hermann

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 Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop

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