And the red watchfires streamed on his proud face and spotless robes, as the Children of Wrath knelt around the Delegate of Peace.
But these with high hopes sate them all night along the highways of the battle, and their watchfires burned in multitude.
What he was totally unprepared for was that the entire city of Peking, aroused by the watchfires on the palace walls, was awake and in alarm, and the light of flares and lanterns glowed from every house.
Black racing figures darted along the walls, the flames of the watchfires leapt higher in the air, and now arrows were singing their keening note of death about the boy lifting so slowly into the night.
The Trojans and their allies have camped hard by our ships and by the wall; they have lit watchfires throughout their host and deem that nothing can now prevent them from falling on our fleet.
When many are got together, you can be guided by him whose counsel is wisest--and sorely do we need shrewd and prudent counsel, for the foe has lit his watchfires hard by our ships.
The watchfires on the hills were the beacons of her happiness.
Watchfires glowed red in the woods as a thousand stars of good omen.
All night the American watchfires blazed, all night men could be heard working at the fortifications.
The two armies were so near that the watchfiresof the one could be plainly seen by the other.
Who then commands the watch by the watchfires this night?
The sole light is that of torches, and watchfires (off).
The guards were not strengthened, and after darkness closed in, the watchfires were neither increased nor changed.
I have seen him in the watchfiresof a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I have read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is marching on.
Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving thewatchfires unlit.
I halt and hearken behind If haply the hours will go back And return to the dear dead light, To the watchfires and stars that of old Shone where the sky now is black, Glowed where the earth now is cold.
A heavy, dense fog clothed every object around, through which only the watchfires were visible, as they flared with a yellow, hazy light of unnatural size.
A few straggling shots closed the combat; and darkness now spread over the wide plain, save where the watchfires marked out the position of the French troops.
As we rode on, several watchfires could be seen towards the northwest, stretching away to a great distance, and throwing a yellowish glare in the dark sky above them.
It was evening: the watchfires were lighted, and round them sat groups of soldiers at their supper, chatting away pleasantly, and recounting the events of the battle.
At a great distance off I could see the watchfires of some soldiers bivouacking in the plain; and even that much comforted my saddened heart, as it aroused me to the thoughts of the campaign before me.
Now I want a few brave hearts to remain behind to keep the watchfires burning and to multiply themselves in the shadows so that our secret may be kept until morning.
They had not escaped unscathed, for in the early morning they had been fired at, and half a dozen men had fallen by the watchfires they had tended.
He hit one of the watchfires dead center and went through it, scattering coals and burning brands.
The cooking fire had burned down to a bed of mottled coals, but the watchfires still were burning and the helicopter, parked within their circle, picked up the glint of flames.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchfires" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
