Twice, and twice only, the fearful war-whoop resounded, filling the heart of that lonely watcher with indescribable fear.
Pursuing the way a little farther in another direction, you find another weary watcher by the midnight lamp.
And Zeus the Watcher of Friend and Friend I also praise, who hath wrought this end.
None knoweth, none hath tiding, save the head Of Helios, ward and watcher of the world.
Daughter of Leda, watcher of my fold, In sooth thy welcome, grave and amply told, Fitteth mine absent years.
Mrs. Williams was asleep on a couch at the opposite end of the room, and, in the dim, spectral light of the shaded lamp, the watcher and her charge looked unearthly.
The sufferer slept, and the watcheraugured favorably.
Certainly the rain was stopping, for the major-domo was now observed by the watcher to go forth, armed with an enormous bunchy umbrella, which, however he did not unfurl.
Fear not, thou art in the hands of the watcher of the world, the ever mighty Harmachis, who sleepeth not day or night, nor hath rested since time began.
Here, under the eyes of the Watcher of Harmachis, you shall learn something of the wisdom of the ancients.
If a comrade was taken sick she was the first to tender her services as watcher and nurse, and in this way came to be known as "Doctor Ned.
All that a loving wife could do as a nurse or watcher or doctress, was done by her, but long before her husband had turned the sharp corner between death and life, Mrs. H.
And Dusty Star was not the only watcherof the disobedient cub.
Between him and that other watcher was less than a dozen paces, but as the boy had arrived on the spot a little earlier, and was now as motionless as the tree behind which he peeped, the Catamount was still unaware of his presence.
Leaving his fellow-watcher on guard, Sir Donald returns to the hotel.
About same hour the watcher assigned to duty in neighborhood of the Lanier room saw Paul go down the basement stairs.
Oswald was the most frequent watcher at the cot of the dying man, anticipating every want, appearing to thereby seek atonement for the fatal shot.
Forward watcher stops a few rods upstream until the boat is fastened, then follows down the bank.
The otherwatcher stands a little way down the stream, intently looking.
By aid of the moonlight, scanning the stream far as can be seen in its onward course, this peering watcherseems fearful that his victims may escape from the river.
Doubtless, but I care not for that so long as there is no watcher posted at the doors.
The hours glided by, with the sun rising higher and setting the watcher thinking, in spite of his misery, weariness, and the pangs of hunger that attacked him, of what a wonderfully beautiful contrast there was between the night and the day.
Quite an hour, during which the watcher did not stir, till there was a sharper twitch and the boy's eyes opened, to look wonderingly in his companion's as if he could not recall where he was.
As she hesitated with the money on her palm, the silent watcher of all this whipped out a long knife and drove it into his comrade's back between the shoulders.
And to compare this passionate flooding of heart and mind, of corporeal and spiritual faculty with any incense which that rigid watcher of mysteries had to offer up, were an absurdity and a profanation impossible even to my deluded vision.
Neither guessed the wild and terrible thoughts that were raging through the mind of the solitary watcher as he peered and peered.
The watcher by the steps was gazing with a strange, alert intentness.
However, there had been something about that silent watcher that had given her a feeling of safety in spite of her prejudice.
That silentwatcher on the hill--what did he mean by sitting there with a rifle across his knee?
To her surprise, as she looked toward the crest of the hill, she saw the solitary watcher was gone.
There was no noise, the watcher heard nothing; still he sat there, looking out over the prairie, and turning his head neither to the right nor the left.
Perhaps then there was some little rustle of the grass, and the watcher turned his head.
The wise one knows that war-parties may be out, or that some camp watcher sitting on a hill may see him far off and may try to kill him.
Many a watcher has doubtless felt this--the dull stupor which comes over heart and brain, sometimes even compelling sleep, though some beloved one lies dying.
Little as the young soldier had said in the summer twilight beside the river, there had been that in his tones and looks which had convinced the wretched watcher of his truth.
A couch, too, had been brought in for the watcher at night, and a great flowered chair.
Yusuf the Red, I name you watcher here until moonrise.
