"Stand watch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... commanded the Ranger briskly. "I will stand watch over the camp for the rest of the night, though you ...
— The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers • Frank Gee Patchin
... Indian attack was seldom made at night. The time generally selected was in the morning, when the party were preparing to start on their day's march. Tom, as a boy, would have been excused taking his turn; but this did not suit him. He requested as a favor, that he might stand watch with ...
— The Young Adventurer - or Tom's Trip Across the Plains • Horatio Alger
... a man of God; I am what he calls a child of perdition. I was a privateersman - serving my country, I say; but he calls it pirate. He is thrifty and sober; he has a treasure, they say, and it lies so near his heart that he tumbles up in his sleep to stand watch over it. What has a harum-scarum dog like me to expect from a man like him? He won't see I'm starving for a chance to mend; 'Mend,' he'll say; 'I'll be shot if you mend at the expense of my daughter;' and the worst of it is, ...
— The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
... nothing more was to be said before Pat. Soon Burlingham told him to tie the oar again and retire to the cabin. "I'll stand watch," said he. "I want to talk business ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... over your care," quoth Hagen, the knight. "I'll stand watch myself to-night. I trow to guard us well, until the day doth come. Therefore have no fear; after that, let him survive ...
— The Nibelungenlied • Unknown |
