watchword

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We looked at the Watchword for the day.

From A History of the Moravian Church by Hutton, Joseph Edmund

In storm-defying cloak— Hand on his trusty gun— Heart, like a heart of oak— Eye, never-setting sun; Speaks but the challenge-shout, All foes without the line, Heeds but, to solve the doubt, Watchword and countersign.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

He had, three days before, written his well-known hymn, "I once was a stranger," etc., entitled Jehovah Tzidkenu, the Watchword of the Reformers.

From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.

Tuesday 3d.—The evening meeting was on the Watchword and Text.

From The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn by Johnston, Henry P.

Sailing Orders" ended thus:—"The Watchword in the Night shall be, 'God save King Henrye!'

From Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by Wood, William Charles Henry