As at Bergen, it was built in such a manner that it could be defended, if need be, and at night it was closed and guarded by watchmen and fierce dogs.
Call thewatchmen and let the beggar be taken to prison!
If ye love her, and bestir yourself for her, and hazard the Lordship of Boyd for the recovery of her vail, which the smiting watchmen have taken from her, then surely her Husband will scorn to sleep in your common, or reverence.
The watchmen sleep, and the people perish for lack of knowledge.
The colonel thought he was one of the most faithful watchmen he ever saw, and he returned serenely to bed.
When Coffin heard Smith hurling objurgations about bananas and watchmen out upon the midnight air, he knew it was immoral, but he felt his heart warm toward Smith.
At sunset the watchmen are stationed in all parts of the town, and take into custody all suspected or unknown persons.
Watchmen patrole 17 in the night with their dogs; others are stationed in particular places, as the market-place and the kasserea, or square, where the merchants have their shops.
The watchmen now retired, and we were left alone with our portly ally.
The street door below was forced open and men with hurried footsteps ascended the stairs--in a moment more the chamber was filled with watchmen and citizens.
Two watchmen instantly grasped him by the arms, and took from him the bloody knife.
While this work of destruction was going on, the alarm was given that a body of watchmen had assembled outside the door, and was about to make an advance upon the 'crib.
Nay, so little terror do our watchmen carry with them, that hardy thieves make a mere jest of them, and sometimes oblige even the very watchman who should apprehend them to light them in their roguery.
Svend Vonved came where the castle rose; He bade the watchmen the gate unclose: As none of the watchmen obey'd his cry, He sprang at once over the ramparts high.
Nearly the whole district is abandoned by dwellers, and is lonely and deserted at night; only watchmen and policemen traverse its narrow lanes with their dark lanterns.
And Siegfried made each one swear to serve him faithfully; and then he sent them back to the snow-covered mountain-peaks to stand again as watchmen at their posts.
The twelve great giants who had stood as watchmen upon the peaks above were rushing down to avenge their masters, and to drive the intruder out of Nibelungen Land.
Happily, the safety of the palace did not depend on these busy wranglers, for it was not on fire at all; the watchmen had been frightened by the Northern lights, and mistaken them for fire.
And now he hastens to tell us that, on the physical side, the watchmen from every observatory of nature cry out, "No God.
In Delhi a friend of mine told me that the watchmen are known to be of the robber class.
Such fire-watchmen were appointed by the emperor Augustus.
From time to time these watchmen cast a wistful glance towards the burg, which lay about five hundred paces from them.
Why did these watchmen cast such wistful glances to the side of the burg?
Watchmen stationed on the hills gave notice by signals when one was in sight.
And it is an acknowledged fact, that if the yard-cock of the family crowed at midnight, they would declare it was morning, though the watchmen and all the clocks in the city were crying out that it was twelve o'clock at night.
Most people have to try both the ups and the downs; and, rightly considered, we all get to be watchmen at last, and look down upon life from a height.
If God's watchmen fail to warn the wicked, what terrible responsibility will be charged to their account?
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
And when thewatchmen in the fields saw the ass they dared not go near him, taking him for a lion.
The watchmen in the field dared not go up to him; but going home, they published the news.
Let Zion's watchmen all awake, And take the alarm they give: Now let them, from the mouth of God, Their solemn charge receive.
There is this distinction, however; now, most of the drivers are Irishmen--the mates and watchmenon the river steamers.
Watchmen patrol the walls, and alarm-bells are ready to ring.
The followers of Wolf were to be found everywhere among the gentry, as the scholars of the new "enlightenment," the watchmen of toleration, and the friends of scientific progress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "watchmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
