nightwatch

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

The morning call is about to begin, and my nightwatch is over.

From Rudyard Kipling by Palmer, John

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

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