nightwatch
Example Sentences
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The nightwatch lost his lantern in the scuffle, and there was great confusion and hubbub.
From The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York by Harry Moore
Through the nightwatch unflagging study Shall banish regrets perforce; As soon as the east is ruddy Our bugle shall sound "To Horse!"
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
The redcoats and the nightwatch pursued Dick to the very edge of the wharf.
From The Liberty Boys Running the Blockade or, Getting Out of New York by Harry Moore
The nightwatch, who made the rounds of the court and park once an hour, need only find the ladder leaning against the balcony and all was lost.
From The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann
The morning call is about to begin, and my nightwatch is over.
From Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer
