The watches were taken from all the sufferers from this strange paralysis, save Weems.
Across it Clitophon watches the bandits perform a human sacrifice by disembowelling the victim before an altar.
The {teichoskopia} where Arsace on the wall of Memphis watches the combat in the plain recalls Helen on the walls of Troy.
I betook myself to mending my neighbors' clocks and watches at nights, after my daily labor was done, and thus I procured the means of educating my son.
Neighbors were accustomed to call at the cottage and have their clocks and watches set to rights when they went wrong.
I have not yet received your Questions,[21] or your watches from Ferney.
She had undertaken to weave a web of iron wire about the two musicians, and to watch them as a spiderwatches a fly caught in the toils; and her reward was to be a tobacconist's license.
I know God watches over you, but He may forget for one moment, and you will be seized like a vessel among pirates.
He behaved like a dog that watchesby his dead master's body, and shows his teeth at all who try to touch it.
There is a special Providence that watches over Germans, and the part of deputy guardian-angel would not suit you at all.
Remonencq persisted in an unfailing and prodigiously profitable martingale, a "system" which any philosophical idler may study as he watches the increasing value of the stock kept by this intelligent class of trader.
What a snug little boudoir this ledge of the precipice--white with droppings and wet with the sea-spray--becomes as one watches them!
And in the faintness of famine and of the frozen blood that stole dully and slowly through their veins, it was of the days they had spent together that they dreamed, lying there in the long watches of the night of the Noël.
Jack regarded her with a grin; a grin in which, it must be confessed, there was something of the look with which a boy watches a kitten he is teasing.
It is likely that a fish has not been caught on that lake pier for forty years; but no matter, the patient fisher watches his cork there all the day long, just the same, and seems to enjoy it.
The expression of hate and blood-lust upon his set features is well-nigh devilish; yet his mind preserves a murderous coolness, as he watches every chance, and never fails to take it.
But his nerves at last become attuned to the hum of missiles, and he watches the whole arena of the battle with a vivid and increasing interest.
We not behold a watches hand To stir, nor plants or flowers to grow; Must we infer that this doth stand, And therefore, that those do not blow?
But not a reformation so, As to reforme were to ore'throw, Like watches by unskilfull men Disjoynted, and set ill againe.
Indeed, it was nothing less than the end of the indirect traffic in watches and silver spoons.
And I was sure that he was thinking of the watches and spoons.
Reaching the trenches he watches the advance of the enemy for a few minutes and then hurries to the rear.
Lying by a log-heap fire through the long watches of the winter night, my changes of base in the effort to keep the chilly side of my body next to the blazing logs were almost continuous.
That is what condemns her in his eyes: she loves too well; she watches too patiently.
And through the watches of that sleepless night Jane Withersteen, in fear and sorrow and doubt, came finally to believe that if she must throw herself into Lassiter's arms to make him abide by "Thou shalt not kill!
He who had been alone in the sad, silentwatches of the night was not now and never must be again alone.
A pensive photographWatches me from the shelf-- Ghost of old love, and half Ghost of myself!
One watchesall with care most true; Doubt not that he will give thee too Thy part.
He "watches his mind," and if he does not escape illusions, recognises and exposes them with ironical candour.
Yet when she did see him, through the car-window, watching the platform for her appearance as tensely as a terrier watches a rathole, Joan shrank back with a faint gasp.
Not any noble character that watches him out of the corner of her eye, and if he's real good--pats him on the hand!
The Captain of the Kearsarge watches with breathless anxiety the line of bubbles on the water's surface, as the torpedo approaches his ship at a terrific speed.
She would give no further explanation, and her mother could not induce her even to glance at the watches in Shreve's window.
What the Orion looked like we must have looked like, and she was something I used to spend whole watches on deck just looking at.
She leans forward to take one; Ashley gravely watches her, but says nothing.
Mr. Ashley watches her at first with anxiety, then with a gradual change of countenance until a gleam of intelligence steals into his look of compassion.
Thus he watches cloud-born shadows Glide from tree to mountain-crest, Softly creeping, aye and ever To the river's yielding breast.
And now she watches the pathway, As yester eve she had done; But what does she see so strange and black Against the rising sun?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
