But the one the watchman held in his hand still moved from the face of the girl to that of the young man.
There was the swift patter of retreating footsteps, and then a sudden halt, and they heard the watchman command: "Go back, and keep the other two till I come.
It struck Miss Forbes if the watchman knew that one of the trespassers was a woman he would be at once reassured, and she broke in quickly: "We have lost our way," she said pleasantly.
But if he wanted the servants, why didn't the watchman do that?
The watchmanexclaimed savagely: "He's fooling you.
For a moment from behind his mask of light the watchman surveyed them in silence.
The watchman stepped into the hall and was cautiously closing the door when a man sprang lightly up the front steps.
With a gesture for silence the watchman motioned them into a small room on the right of the hallway.
The watchman gave evidence to the effect that Borachio had said that he had received a thousand ducats for conspiring against Hero.
A watchman overheard them, and thought that a man who had been paid a thousand ducats for villainy was worth taking in charge.
The duty man here sat at his controls, raising the air pressure in the locks through which the outside watchman was coming.
He had sensed rather than seen that an elderly bearded man, perhaps the watchman of the closed theatre, passed along the sidewalk, going east.
In the very centre of it was an old watchman with his staff and lantern.
We had returned to earth, and not far off the old watchman was still awaking shadows and echoes in the narrow street.
We were growing concerned, when just as our old friend the watchman arrived upon the scene, up rushed another functionary in breathless agitation: the night porter of the hotel, and he carried great keys in his hand.
The people of Lerida are even earlier than those of Burgos, where I was watchmanuntil six months ago.
The watchman put down his lantern deliberately and struck the ground with his spear.
This was the very old watchman who had piloted us to the hotel the night we had lost ourselves in that most uncomfortable of Spanish towns, with the worst of Spanish inns.
It was hardly necessary, for another watchmanrang out with iron tongue.
Our watchman had gone to the far end, and by the gleam of his lamp we saw him turn and hasten.
The silence was only broken by the distant cry of a watchman proclaiming the hour and the weather.
After some further conversations, and with a substantial remembrance for auld lang syne, we left the old watchman and turned for our hotel.
Bodlevski put his hand in his pocket and pulled out some small change: "If you tell me--" The watchman brightened up.
The night watchman reported that he had heard a hollow-sounding crash in that unoccupied part of the house during the night.
As I passed your barracks here, I saw you sitting in the window in your nightshirt and calling down to the night watchman that some one was murdering you.
Happily he noticed a sleepy watchman leaning leisurely against a wall, and going up to him he said: "Tell me, where is the Cave?
At length the professor smiled and said: "The pair of cuff buttons which I had from Prince Eugene I presented to the watchman in the cemetery.
The night watchman had just called out two o'clock when the solitary guest found himself, still giddy from the heavy wine, alone in the great dark hall in front of the mysterious door.
This keeping a watchman is neither more nor less than paying black-mail.
He had a watchman in the tower who told him he saw a man running.
The watchman lived near the gate and as it was not opened very often had much spare time.
Not a sound could be heard and the watchman was fast asleep, not dreaming of any danger.
The Yellowstone Park Association keeps a solitary watchman at each of its hotels during winter, and has a telephone line connecting each with Mammoth Hot Springs.
The hotel company has a watchman at each of its buildings, who drags out a lonely existence through the two hundred days from November to May.
He had been there all night for two nights together, as he told his story, and the day-watchman had been there one day, and was now come to relieve him.
Whole rows of houses in some places were shut close up, the inhabitants all fled, and only a watchman or two left.
After eleven the watchman opens the front door and takes the people up in the elevaytor.
Does thewatchman never leave the front hall except to take people up in the elevator?
The watchman when called persisted, after the severest cross-questioning, in his first assertion that neither on Wednesday night nor last night had he seen or heard anything suspicious.
It is as follows: "I was night watchmanat the old Darlington and Stockton Station at the town of Darlington, a few yards from the first station that ever existed.
At the other end sat the watchman with his lantern, presumably asleep.
At the gate, the watchman lay asleep beside his lantern, and when Rivers let himself in with his key, he found Liu in the lounge, also asleep.
Outside of that there's nothing to do except take care of the watchman if he's there; and he's sure to be.
Farwell walked down to the river before he retired, to find the watchman very wide awake and a torrent booming through the stone-faced canal intake, to be distributed through a network of ditches upon the company's lands miles away.
The watchman came out of their hands trussed up like a fowl for roasting, securely gagged, with a gunny sack drawn over his head and tied at the waist.
If that watchman is on the dam to-night he might hear something.
The sandbag whistled as it cut down between the upstretched arms, and the watchman dropped as if hit by lightning.
The watchman of the Lispenard Bank, and Flaherty, the "crooked" policeman on the beat covering the Webster Bank, were tried together for aiding and abetting the gang of burglars.
If the watchman has not gone back on us, it ought to open at the first touch.
The news reached Philadelphia in the night, and when the watchman cried, "Past two o'clock, and Cornwallis is taken!
In Hartford people had to get up when the town watchman rang his bell.
But he felt the eye of the night watchman boring through him like a gimlet, and he was glad to edge off and be on his way again.
Sixty pounds of flour, which had been offered as a reward for bringing to justice a garden-thief, were paid to the watchman who fired at him.
Suffini would not have been shot at, had he not refused to surrender when called to by the watchman while in the act of plundering a garden.
A watchman certainly had been missing for some time past; but after much inquiry and investigation nothing appeared that could furnish matter for a criminal prosecution against them.
The punishment was put off until the evening, when he declared that he was the person who killed the watchman at Parramatta, which he effected by shooting him; and that he would lead any one to the place where the body lay.
It was alleged against her that she was found walking the streets after twelve o'clock, and the watchman declared he believed her to be a common strumpet.
A young fellow, whose name was Booth, was now charged with beating the watchman in the execution of his office and breaking his lanthorn.
The old night-watchman informed us that he was enjoying a week's holiday from the bank.
He looks out for the furnace in winter and is a night watchman in a bank.
The watchman wakened me, and I wakened all around.
Scarcely had I lain down on my couch, when our faithfulwatchman came to my door and exclaimed, "If you do not go at once to the Mint you will all be killed.
We had just finished dinner when our night watchman rushed into the room with the startling words, Pultun bigar guya, and lin men ag luga!
He had heard the watchman in the tower give the signal of the new day, and he had seen the answer flash from the distant turret.
When the sleepy watchman came to that street, he rubbed his eyes, stared about him in surprise, and then shook his head.
And the private watchman whom Hodder sometimes met in the darkness, and who invariably scrutinized pedestrians on Park Street, seemed symbolic, of this attitude.
We reached my lodgings as the watchman was crying: "Past two o'clock, and a windy morning!
He knew every watchman and foreman in the mill, and many of the second hands.
Simmons was thewatchman who stood in the vestibule of the office entrance.
Times were when the watchman up in this tower would see the south alive with movement and the silver path on the sea overshadowed by clouds of sail.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
