Then came the moment when, having run across the southerly end of the ledge, the dory was headed for the western shore and the two watchers ran into the water waist-deep in order to lend a hand.
In a very few seconds the snow hid them completely from view, but yet the watchers stood with their faces pressed against the glass, picturing in their minds the dory and her brave crew as they saw them last.
Another or two of those strangely drawn-out seconds passed, and then the watchers had their reward.
Now then, we must have three or four watchers for the rest of the night, and those of you who are wet had better see about a change.
About half an hour before the General's death the watchers discerned signs of approaching dissolution.
In the afternoon the sick man surprised his watchers by getting out of bed and walking a few steps to an easy chair, where he sat for a few moments.
The trail up the steep hillside behind the cabin became hardened by the feet of the watchers alert for the hourly expected arrival of the Hoonah.
Ellen's day was waning in an enthralling splendor that rendered the watchers speechless; it numbed them by its exquisite beauty so incongruous with their own growing sense of hopelessness.
After what seemed to the watchers a frenzied eternity, their efforts began slowly to slacken.
The watchers saw the blot yet a little longer, as it traveled with swift, regular leaps along the edge of the mesa; then it grew fainter and fainter, and at last they saw it no more.
This Kaliko did, and meanwhile the watchers outside the entrance were growing more and more uneasy about their friends.
Slowly the magnificent bow lifted and melted into the sky, until the eyes of the earnest watchers saw only fleecy clouds flitting across the blue.
The stillness of the world, and its lustre in which that fine black shape was centred and was moving to her end, made me feel that headlands, sea, and sky knew what was known to the two watchers on the hill.
A carriage-horse champed its bit, and the still watchers turned at once to that intrusive sound.
The two younger boys exchanged glances that were hard for the watchers to interpret.
Then, just as the watchers had given up hope, the two laughing boys dropped from the back of the stage and ran up the stone stairs.
The automobile had disappeared as the road circled behind a hill, but the watchers well knew that if it did not meet with disaster it would soon reappear above the washout and then be unable to stop because of the steep descent.
The river, stirred into turmoil by the sweep of their great arms, rolled its waves up over the mossy banks, driving the watchers back into the edge of the woods, and even there covering them with its spray.
It came to a halt almost directly beneath the watchers on the roof-tops, and its leader brandishing his sword after a moment of hesitation, ordered his men to charge the crowd.
The watchersbelow saw him in his last struggle writhe in the deathly grasp, twist his revolver and fire three shots into the heart of the gorilla.
The three watchers on deck saw the proceeding, and only one, the "pirate," had presence of mind to hurl a lifebuoy.
As Harry swung from the rear step to the dingy platform, there were many curious eyes to observe his arrival, but the watchers were mostly women and children.
Even the faint echo of the din these blood-thirsty demons made struck terror into the hearts of the watchers in Detroit.
Every one of them carried a pole over his shoulder, and the horrified watchers knew well enough that from the end of each pole fluttered the scalp of some Englishman.
At the moment of greatest wonderment, both watchers were startled by the leap of a small fish, which sprang a foot or two into the air, flashing like silver in the sunlight, and then fell back.
The watchers would be quick to detect him, and their position was so much the superior of the fugitive that his capture was inevitable.
The soft rippling sound which occasionally came to the watchers showed that the canoe was drifting with the current and that it would land at a point fully fifty feet below.
Theo had swooned away the moment she realised that they were saved, and the women watchers on the shore sobbed loudly in hysterical relief.
The Corpse Watchers There was once a poor woman that had three daughters, and one day the eldest said, "Mother, bake my cake and kill my cock till I go seek my fortune.
The leader of the animals made straight for the canoe, and the watchers trembled as they looked, for it was evident that one snap of the creatures' huge jaws would cave in the side of the canoe as if it were an eggshell.
They were recognized instantly by the watchers as hippopotami.
Half an hour later, to the watchers in the camp, she was little more than a speck against the sky.
The line of watchers on the beach climbed the hillside behind them, and watched and waved till the white sails alone were visible, till they became a tiny white speck, till they disappeared.
The watchers crouched in a crevice of the hillside and gazed narrow-eyed, and their breaths came quick and short, not from the run but because their hearts were in their throats and choked their breathing.
The rain beat mercilessly on the fearful watchers and bit like whips.
There he blew his whistle, but was unheard by the watchers on the submarine, this latter being behind a bend in the cliffs.
Half an hour later, far behind them, thewatchers on the Glasgow counted seventy-five flashes.
And when, after their lonely waiting, the watchers in the heather saw the lantern come joggling down the steep cutting from Sark, they braced themselves for eventualities, and hefted their guns, and pricked up their ears and made ready.
This set him sneezing so violently that it seemed impossible that the watchers outside should not hear him.
So the two watchers prowled desultorily about the rock, poking again into every place that suggested possible concealment for anything larger than a puffin.
It was a weird and weary vigil, and small wonder if it appeared necessary that the courage and endurance of the watchers should be fortified with copious draughts of "mountain dew," with bread and cheese accompaniments.
And the completeness of their trust in the efficacy of such supports was too often evidenced by the condition of the watchers toward the dawn of the morning.
Elsewhere the watchers became aware for an instant of immense spaces, certainly not arid plains, but seas, real oceans, vast and calm, reflecting from their placid depths the dazzling fireworks of the weird and wildly flashing meteors.
They looked down like watchers upon all creation; they seemed to guard the four quarters of the sky.
As the twilight faded away the bright and silent watchers of the heavens mustered each in his place.
Late in the afternoon the anxious watchers at Jonesville saw a single fugitive urging his well-nigh spent horse down the slope of the hill toward town.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
