We will take it by turns to watchthat little patch of light overhead; if we see anyone looking down we must leave the bucket and swim to the side without making the least noise.
A quarter of an hour later the garrison heard shouts and cries, and knew that a vigilant watch had been set by the French, and that one, if not all, of their friends had fallen into their hands.
Sir Walter Somers had, he found, been treated with all knightly courtesy, and believing him to be an honourable knight and true to his word, but slight watch had been kept over him.
One of the women took her place at the highest window to watch for the return of any belonging to the expedition.
The hour is late, and I shall be having the watch coming along to know why I keep a fire so long after the curfew.
Then the journey was resumed, and so careless was the watch kept by the French that they passed through the sentries unobserved, and reached in safety the gate from which they had issued.
So terrible was the disorder that the inhabitants of every village were obliged to fortify the ends of their streets, and keep watch and ward as in the cities.
At such times Mr. Felsburg, from the back part of the store, would watch Mr. Albritton steadily.
Above, the most successful watch party ever conducted under the auspices of the Supreme Kings of the Universe had progressed almost to its apogee.
He had bought those shoes, with an utter disregard for expense, before he dreamed that another would bring Ophelia to the watch party.
At length, though, when our necks were quite sore from craning this way and that on the watch for an abandoned farm that would suit us, we came to a very attractive-looking place facing a lawn and flanked by an orchard.
Outside on the landing, Jeff breathed again and paused to master a trembling tendency as regards his legs, at the same time telling himself he had not wanted to stay through their old watch party anyhow.
It only taken us four and a half to git back ag'in to the border, the natives standin' by to watch us as we tore on past 'em.
Thereafter would follow the strictly social phases of the watch party.
Come along, boys--one of you take the ford, an' watch the road over the hill.
I do like to watch the gathering of a storm, Pilkington," replied Mortimer.
She bore something beneath her arm; and as Dick's curiosity was now sufficiently roused to overcome all fear of consequences, he stole quickly down-stairs, and by a short route got sufficiently on her track to watch her proceedings unobserved.
A dense fog had been rapidly accumulating, and they began to feel something startled with a vague apprehension of a night-watch amongst the hills, unprovided as they were with the requisite essentials for either food or lodging.
Keep watch at both door and loophole, if thou see fit; but I gi'e thee my word that I'll not escape.
Here, however, he determined to keep watch and seize them if possible on their egress, trusting to his good fortune or his courage for help in any emergency that might ensue.
But that porter grim, strict watch he kept, Beside the stair sate he; When lo!
The tailor ran to the door to watch his departure, almost beside himself for joy at this happy riddance.
Thou lying chub," said George, angrily, "did not I watch thee?
She closed the door, shutting out Josiah and the keen spring wind, and went back to the window, to watch him down the drive.
Her eyes rested on the dark cavern which was the fireplace; and there fell upon her a sweet sense of completed bliss, as if it were alight and she could watch the dancing flames.
Set thus austerely aloft, it seems now a survival of the day when men used to go to meeting gun in hand, and when one stayed, a lookout by the door, to watch and listen.
Persons with a tendency to recurrences in the mouth or elsewhere should report to the physician any sore they may discover and should watch for them.
The three white plumes above the gloom Gleamed like a snowy wing; Victors and vanquished paused to watch The blind Bohemian King.
And if youwatch close you may see them patting or stroking the aphides to make them yield the honey faster.
When he had gone about 300 yards, Colonel Watson paused for a moment under the cover of a tree to watch the further retirement of the company he was following.
We, too, were anxious to discover the identity and, therefore, the quality, of the men whose trenches it was our lot to watchby night and by day.
And it was deeply interesting to watch the meeting between these two men--the man who had called the Canadian Army into being, and the man who commanded it in the field.
I also learned that the direct road from Carlisle to Haddon, by way of Buxton, was infested with English spies who were on the watch for friends of the deposed Scottish queen.
She knew he would permit her to leave the Hall only that he might watch her, and, if possible, entrap her and John.
His uncertainty was not the least of his troubles; and although Dorothy had full liberty to come and go at will, her father kept constant watch over her.
One should be able to see through a stone wall to keep goodwatch on you.
I will watch for Mistress Vernon, and when she appears, then you may go.
Troops were sent to the Scottish border to watch for the coming of the fugitive queen.
There always will be a few who will require specialwatch and care, and generally there will be only a few.
Watch their countenances when you are addressing them, and see if they look interested.
The object of a school is not to take children out of the parental hands, substituting the watch and guardianship of a stranger for the natural care of father and mother.
It could cling to the book easily, and we placed the tumbler again upright to watch its motions.
To watch the characters of the members of her section.
I will give you another example, and then notice by my watch the shortest and longest time required to do it.
Remember, then, as for the first time you take your new station at the head of your school, that it is not your duty simply to watch with an eagle eye for those accidental instances of transgression which may chance to fall under your notice.
But you can plan a campaign against a whole class of faults, and put into operation a system of measures to correct them, and watch from day to day the operation of that system with all the spirit and interest of a game.
Of course, there will be no punishment; but it will very much assist you to watch yourselves, if you expect to make a report at the end of the forenoon.
This is to be done by seizing upon those peculiar emergencies which will arise in the course of the administration of a school, and which each teacher must watchfor and discover himself.
So if she should watch a spider in the fields making his web.
Not by appearing suspiciously to watch any individuals, for this would be almost sufficient to make them bad, if they were not so before.
No vigilant watch which it is possible for any teacher to exert will prevent a vast amount of mere talk entirely foreign to the business of the school.
Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America.
I steered for him a good many months--as was the humble duty of the pilot-apprentice: stood a daylight watch and spun the wheel under the severe superintendence and correction of the master.
Has any member of the family ever implored you to watch your temper and not fly out at the girl?
I see no great difference between a man and a watch, except that the man is conscious and the watch isn't, and the man TRIES to plan things and the watch doesn't.
It can be emptied while the second hand of a watch makes its circuit.
I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through.
The watch doesn't wind itself and doesn't regulate itself--these things are done exteriorly.
If you will take a man to a clothing-store and watch him try on a dozen pairs of trousers, you will see.
For wonderful to relate, Monsieur, the watch is still going!
He and the lady again came and looked at me anxiously for a while, in silence; and then the old Count began to grumble again about Planard, and to compare his watch with the clock.
Down life's dark vale we wander Till Jesus comes; We watchand wait and wonder Till Jesus comes.
Let us hope and trust, let us watch and pray, And labor till the Master comes.
In fact, judged by its results, it was God Himself who directed the revival, only He endowed His minister with the power of divination to watch its progress and take the stumbling-blocks out of the way.
For we watch and we wait, And we stand at the gate While the shadows are piled; O prodigal child, Come home!
I hear the Saviour say, Thy strength indeed is small; Child of weakness, watch and pray, Find in me thine all in all.
For Christ is born of Mary, And gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep Their watch of wondering love.
The caution must, however, be borne in mind as to the occurrence of relapses of such extreme shortness of duration (less even than twenty-four hours) as to readily escape notice unless a careful watch be kept for their detection.
The next step is to set the water flowing in the various closets and watch the flow at the external trap, or opening, which has been made to ascertain whether there is any obstruction in the pipe within the house.
No intelligent practitioner can watch a patient during the cold stage of a malarial paroxysm without realizing how important the attendant congestion is as a pathological state.
From their high-placed towers the herons watch the small fry in the river below and make forays among the young trout, pike and catfish and the frogs.
If you want to know how to accomplish a hard task, come with me and watch a little ant for an hour.
It is like looking down on an ant-hill to watchthe movements of the shifting swarm.
This, too, was a great discovery, and the watch was handed round for examination to all the curious inmates of the harem in turn.
I then ordered the room to be cleared, and insisted that I should be left alone with my patient until the minute-hand of my watch had reached the favourable hour.
She looked wistfully after him, too, as he waved his hat to bid her adieu, and stood up in the carriage to watch our ascending party long after she had started on her homeward journey.
He was mounted on a good horse, and I was proud to watch him ride gallantly away with St. Hubert's blessing and my own.
At last I watched her dark eyes as we watch the guiding star by night in the desert.
Well, I was used to being thrown in the background, and it was pleasure enough for me to watch that grave, earnest countenance, and speculate on the superhuman beauty of Queen Dido, to which it bore so strange a resemblance.
It is refreshing to watch the ripple yonder on the radiant Bosphorus, where the breeze sighs gently up from the sea of Marmora--alas!
Watch them as they gradually assume shape out of the decreasing shadows.
We watch the tide come creeping in, each succeeding wave running a little farther up the beach and driving us back with relentless energy from its rightful possessions.
Ahead of us a blue jay kept close watch over our movements, but at last decided that we are harmless, and with a last shriek of defiance flew away to pour out his vituperations on other hapless wanderers.
Our captain was on the watchfor just such an occurrence, and three short, sharp blasts from our whistle notified the oncoming boat that we had stopped our engines.
We watch him through the glass, rising higher and higher with each successive sweep, until he fades into a mere speck in the distant blue.
For nearly an hour we watch the lights and shadows flicker over the valley, the high lights in sharp contrast to the deep dark purples of the cañon.
We stop before a barber shop and watch the queer process of shaving the head and braiding the queue.
Go again to the wharf in the late afternoon, and watch these same boats come laboring in against the tide, sunk deep in the water with their day's catch.
But take it home, let it dry in the sun, then place it on your open grate fire, and as you watch the iridescent blaze curl up the chimney, dream dreams, and weave strange fancies in the light of your driftwood fire.
Watch him closely, and do not move a muscle, and when his curiosity is somewhat appeased, see him thump the ground with his hind foot, trying to scare you into revealing your identity.
One longs to lie in the sunshine and watch the clouds go trailing over the valley.
Senora Angustias kept watch for him in the courtyard and helped the Nazarene take off his vestments.
Just now England leads, and both hemispheres approve horse-racing; crowds stupidly gather to watch lank nags run around a race-track, a spectacle that could not be surpassed in insipidity.
I believe we'll run alongside the other launch and then I'll leave you and Ping to watch the Sprite while I do a little reconnoitring.
We'll do the best we can to keep watch for them, anyhow," averred the officer.
In my anxiety I had momentarily taken my eyes off the animal to watch Jimmy.
Here, as they passed along the docks with their masses of shipping, they kept a sharp watch for the man they were seeking.
It's a dreary watch I have from ten till daylight, in his Majesty's antechamber, but he will trust no other man at that post.
Twice the Captain pulled out his watch and looked at it.
They watch at the frontiers, tireless and vigilant, while the mercenaries riot and play.
You have something to say; come to it at once, for it is trying to watch you so closely.
They'll keep a strict watch over you, my friend, because you've played the lion too much.
When three men watch each other as do Beauvais, Mollendorf and you, it is because each suspects the other of treachery.
We meet merely to watch each other," with a short laugh.
The high revels in the guardroom were no more, the cuirassiers were no longer made up of the young nobles of the kingdom; they were now merely watch dogs.
Let us secretly arm and watch for the opportunity to strike a blow for our rights.
It was so certain that Gerald, if my rival, would seek to avoid me; it was so easy for him, who could watch all my motions, to secure the power of doing so.
Heaven, that delivered her from thy fury, when the judgments so recently fallen on thy house ought to have inspired thee with other thoughts, will continue to watch over her.
It was therefore agreed that she should leave the valley with them; and that, in the meantime, she should watch lest any other straggler should, by chance or curiosity, follow them to the mountain.
I myself have a great desire to watchover thy conduct, and visit the subterranean palace, which, no doubt, contains whatever can interest persons like us.
Many of those who surrounded the Bassa were sent only to watch and report his conduct; every tongue was muttering censure, and every eye was searching for a fault.
This last circumstance had terrified Bianca so much, that she was rejoiced when Matilda told her that she would not go to rest, but would watch till the princess should rise.
