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Example sentences for "watchfire"

Lexicographically close words:
watcher; watchers; watches; watchet; watcheth; watchfires; watchful; watchfull; watchfully; watchfulness
  1. I passed the Isle of Demons, and saw your niece's watchfire beckoning me ashore.

  2. Daily she had watched with hopeless eyes for the sail that never came; but now, as the green shoots began to glisten here and there on the brown sod, she once more built her watchfire high on the cliff, and kept it blazing night and day.

  3. With the first breath of the new morning, the delighting meditations which had occupied him by his watchfire during the darkness of the night had begun to subside.

  4. By the dying embers of his watchfire stood the young chieftain, with two warriors, to whom he appeared to be giving some hurried directions.

  5. Scripture abounds in other metaphors for the same solemn spiritual facts as are set before us in this picture of the dying watchfire and the sad men watching its decline.

  6. Then the travellers can journey no further, but 'lie down in sorrow,' and without a watchfire they become a prey to all the beasts of the field.


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