Use watch in a sentence
Sentences starting with watch
- Watch yourself, and you will find impulses which, but for the restraints you put upon them, would make you do the same foolish things which you laugh at in that cousin of yours. [6]
- Watch sharply, for you have of to render a decision without any if's and ands it. [5]
- Watch how the thing developed. [11]
- Watch one of them. [6]
- Watch him rising now. [11]
- Watch him a little while and then answer me. [10]
- Watch her through its transparent walls;--her bosom is heaving; but it is in a vacuum. [6]
- Watch me now, I'll tell you how it was. [11]
- Watch me now, if he gives the, evidence they say he can give--the prasecution say it--that M'Mahon Gang behind Logan 'll get him sure as guns, one way or another. [11]
- Watch where your hoss's goin' en' ride! [13]
Sentences ending with watch
- Look out for your watch! [9]
- She turns up with the Pallas at six bells o' the middle watch. [9]
- He said: "You were on watch. [5]
- Nevertheless it is well-known that I have given up to the town a larger measure of time and labor and moneys than many a town-mayor and captain of watch. [10]
- Put up your watch. [9]
- It was my watch till midnight, and then it was Jim's; but Tom stayed up, because he said ship captains done that when they was making the land, and didn't stand no regular watch. [5]
- Well, as I was saying, we waited that morning till everybody was settled down to business, and nobody in sight around the yard; then Tom he carried the sack into the lean-to whilst I stood off a piece to keep watch. [5]
- I presently climbed up on the bench; I did not think it was safe to go to sleep while this lunatic was on watch. [5]
- Mr. Curry owned two thirds of it--and he said that he sold it out for twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, and an old plug horse that ate up his market value in hay and barley in seventeen days by the watch. [5]
- I'm going to try and do with this business as you did with that watch. [11]
Short sentences using watch
- It's your turn to watch. [5]
- My watch began to gain. [5]
- He would watch till morning. [11]
- I will watch the guards. [10]
- I shall watch the Doolittles. [4]
- Our watch was nearly ended. [5]
- I looked at my watch. [4]
- I can at least watch. [11]
- Peter glanced at his watch. [9]
- He looked at his watch. [9]
Sentences containing watch two or more times
- In the mean time, what is the use of setting the man with the silver watch against the man with the gold watch, and the man without any watch against them both? [6]
- Now, just watch the effect, and it will be so casual that if you don't watch you won't know when I do say that thing--but you just watch the effect. [5]
- And she must sit and watch him--she, with her primitive fierceness of love, must watch him sinking, fading helplessly out of life, sight and being. [11]
- Also an ignorant silver watch and a showy brass watch chain. [5]
- He afterwards sold Roscoe a watch at cost, but confessed to me that the works of the watch had been smuggled. [11]
- But he say once more, 'The watch, the watch, your Excellency! [11]
- And he said it; said it all the time, for months--in the morning watch, the middle watch, and dog watch; and probably kept it going in his sleep. [5]
- When the watch changed, the off watch stayed up, 'stead of turning in. [5]
- The machine was as perfect as a watch when we took her apart the other day; but when she goes together again the 15th of January we expect her to be perfecter than a watch. [5]
- Her parents kept a strict watch upon her to keep her from leaving the village, but she said her time was not yet; that when the time to go was come she should know it, and then the keepers would watch in vain. [5]
More example sentences with the word watch in them
- It is not your will to watch and hear; it is because you love the lady. [11]
- I shall watch your going on"--(he did not say goings on)--"your Alpine course, with clear memories of things and hours dearer to me than all the world, and with which I would not have parted for the mines of the Rand. [11]
- I shall watch your distressed career to its close with deep scrutiny. [11]
- They represented the young god Dionysius, the Hyades surrounding him, and in colored groups all the gifts of the divinities who watch over fields and gardens, as well as those of the Nysian god. [10]
- I repeat to you, it will neither be done nor attempted, unless you watch it every day and hour, and force it. [7]
- Don't you remember you was to watch there that night? [5]
- That's a point you want to watch for. [5]
- Thus: Wrist, if you please.--I was on his right side, but he presented his left wrist, crossing it over the other.--I begin to count, holding watch in left hand. [6]
- And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep. [5]
- He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me. [5]
- At night Tom would suffer none to watch save Weldon and himself, not trusting Riley or Cutcheon. [9]
- The good you would put in a mill to watch the stones grind, and the bad you would put on a prairie alone to make the grist for the grinding. [11]
- But the old woman, sure of it beforehand, took his soothsaying quite calmly, and only desired to be carried up to her observatory that she might watch the risings of the stars. [10]
- Time,' said Mr Witherden, pulling out his watch, 'in a business like this, is exceedingly precious. [12]
- I shall return with you to Leyden and from thence try to reach Delft; meantime I'll keep watch and give you warning, if necessary. [10]
- He was still with the Governor in all fact, though soldiering for Bigot--a sort of watch upon the Intendant. [11]
- Madame Marie sat with the doctor beside the bed of her dear mistress, and in another room, George Fournel, with the Avocat, kept watch beside the body of the Seigneur of Pontiac. [11]
- A spy, mingling with the crowd, had laid hands on him, and the captain of the watch had forthwith hurried to the Serapeum to boast of a success which might confirm him in his yet uncertain position. [10]
- The Colonel bowed with that courtesy and respect which distinguished him, and Mrs. Brice left them to go back into the room of torment, and watch by the sergeant's pallet. [9]
- The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages. [4]
- The veteran Memnon, with his one arm, had kept watch on the temple-roof during that night's orgy, planning measures for repulsing the enemy's attack, till the storm had burst on him and his adherents with the "artillery of heaven. [10]
- Dr. Leigh remained with him for an hour longer, and then left him in charge of a young gentleman from the Neighborhood Guild, who gladly volunteered to watch for the night. [4]
- I watch her with great, I may say tender interest. [6]
- He climbed on, with frequent stops to watch the rim, and before he dreamed of gaining the bench he bumped his knees into it, and saw, in the dim gray light, his rifle and the rabbit. [13]
- Then Fulkerson said, with another look at his watch, "Well, March, we're keeping Mr. Lindau from his dinner. [8]
- He would stop with an exclamation and stand gazing, self-forgetful, for incredible periods, and she would watch him, filled with a curious sense of the limitations of an appreciation she had thought complete. [9]
- I timed him with a stop watch, and he made 1,244 revolutions in 24 minutes and 46 seconds. [5]
- I rode down with a gentleman to the Ocean House, the other day, to see the sea horses, and also to listen to the roar of the surf, and watch the ships drifting about, here, and there, and far away at sea. [5]
- The watch doesn't wind itself and doesn't regulate itself--these things are done exteriorly. [5]
- Why, that bird will go by a gold watch to bring back one of those patent cake-pans. [5]
- I'll watch the whole night long, and I'll do it every night, too, if you'll do the other part of the job. [5]
- He knew that when men live lives of patient, gloomy vigilance, they generally have something to watch and guard. [11]
- Many a time, when he has ridden all night, he has said to me at dawn, "Take the watch, Boy; if the trail freshens, call me. [5]
- Like eyes they were, and seemed to watch him. [13]
- So fresh instructions were sent for the solution of difficulties that might be encountered, as well as fresh people who were to watch Kutuzov's actions and report upon them. [2]
- Albeit my spirits were low, 'twas no small entertainment to watch the doctor and his rivals at their adieus. [9]
- It would be well to keep a watch on your pistol, so as to have it and the cartridges safe from theft. [5]
- Ye are all weavers, and Allah the Merciful, does He not watch beside the loom? [11]
- Some hours later we encountered a huntsman, from whom I procured some gun-grease; with this I filled the watch, and heated it in by the fire. [4]
- Just then the watch, marching from the Marienthurn to the Frauenthor, gave her vagrant thoughts a new turn. [10]
- I shall keep watch, and try to do my duty. [7]
- Other astronomers will watch, and some no doubt will pray, and I shall read in the annals the bright story of the flower that was turned into a star! [11]
- I took the watch, and Jim he laid down and snored away; and by and by the storm let up for good and all; and the first cabin-light that showed I rousted him out, and we slid the raft into hiding quarters for the day. [5]
- I sit and watch, and I feel a pity. [11]
- I at least watch your work with interest, and do not dispute your art so long as it does not cross the boundaries of the beautiful, which to me are those of art. [10]
- All through your watch you are tortured with the exquisite misery of uncertainty. [5]
- To lose that watch would be like losing his share in the promises of the Church. [11]
- Kill me; but watch what your end will be! [11]
- Consequently, the larboard watch was ordered to lay in his pole. [5]
- Here they could watch unseen the tumult in the square below, for it was surrounded by dense laurel bushes. [10]
- If you can watch till two o'clock I will relieve you. [11]
- Others preferred to watch this futile battle rather than give themselves up to the anxiety which filled their minds. [10]
- You've got to watch things, if you expect them to go smooth. [4]
- I want to watch their turning before I go, for, be it known to you, early tomorrow morning--the saints be praised!--I start for Brussels. [10]
- I'm going to watch the sun rise again to-morrow, my darling. [11]
- Xanthe liked to watch the stream disappear in the myrtle-grove. [10]
- We used to watch the stars that fell, too, and see them streak down. [5]
- Still, we will watch the signs and do so if possible. [7]
- During the afternoon watch the next day, Mr. Bixby asked me if I knew how to run the next few miles. [5]
- She preferred to watch the life about her from the window-seat in the little parlour. [9]
- He has to watch the huge dikes which keep the ocean from overwhelming him, and the river-banks, which may break, and let the floods of the Rhine swallow him up. [4]
- I like to watch the gobbler maneuvering his forces in a grasshopper-field. [4]
- These stayed to watch the "mad Inglesi," as a foreigner called him, knocking his head against the foot stool of an unresponsive god of chance. [11]
- Our guardian kept watch over my brothers' speed in learning. [10]
- They had to watch over his health, of which, whatever was its state, he seldom complained. [14]
- He kept close watch over her, and at the least indication of restlessness, that he knew led to tossing and rolling of the body, he held her tightly, so no violent move could reopen her wounds. [13]
- You have to watch out and see what the people want, and give it to 'em. [4]
- He put his watch on the table, and sit down on a bench by it, and for a little minute he do not speak, but look at me close, and not angry, as you would think. [11]
- I used to watch Mr. Grosvenor Kyme as he sat at the end of the dinner-table, dark, preoccupied, taciturn, symbolical of a wealth new to my experience, and which had about it a certain fabulous quality. [9]
- She was to watch me intently, and whenever I glanced toward her she was going to deliver a gubernatorial laugh that would lead the whole audience into applause. [5]
- I wanted to watch Lassiter, but Dyer's face, onct I seen it like thet, glued my eyes. [13]
- But if we watch it carefully we shall be able to predict with some assurance the drift in Paris. [4]
- Hence I could watch indifferently both lake and sky. [9]
- I love to watch his eye when he draws the razor down my throat. [11]
- Perhaps she might watch his career with more interest from her acquaintance with him. [6]
- I loved to watch her, for with me she was ever her own absolute self, free from all artifice, lost in her perfect naturalness: a healthy, perfect soundness, a primitive simplicity beneath the artifice of usual life. [11]
- Did y' ever watch her at meetin' playing with posies and looking round all the time of the long prayer? [6]
- Looking at his watch he saw that, if they got a cab, they would get to the station before the train started, and he wondered how he could retard Barouche. [11]
- Now, if we watch every night, we'll be dead sure to see him go out, some time or other, and then we'll snatch that box quicker'n lightning. [5]
- This time the watch came within twenty feet of him, saluted and retired. [11]
- It was my watch below till twelve, but I wouldn't a turned in anyway if I'd had a bed, because a body don't see such a storm as that every day in the week, not by a long sight. [5]
- She held her watch before her. [5]
- After this the watch averaged well, but nothing more. [5]
- He took the watch all to pieces while I waited, and then said the barrel was "swelled. [5]
- I'm able to watch all their inspirations with perfect composure. [8]
- I had to watch a long time before I detected the telegraphic communication between the two conspirators. [6]
- Sad enough it was that, as he shifted his glance from the watch, which ticked loud enough to wake a farmhand in the middle of the day, he found those Spanish eyes which had been so lost in studying him. [11]
- One day I was standing a watch in the nursery. [5]
- That day I was so hungry for the sight of her that I got my field-glass--used to watch my vessels and rafts making across the bay--and trained it on the window where I knew she sat. [11]
- I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through. [5]
- Once my soul was like a watch, cased and carried in the pocket of life, uncertain, untrue, because it was a soul made, not born. [11]
- If the ship was "down by the head," and would not steer, he would go and move his "trunk" further aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
- If the ship was "down by the head," and would got steer, he would go and move his "trunk" farther aft, and then watch the effect. [5]
- If you simply want to enjoy yourselves, stay at this hotel--there is no better place--sit on the piazza, look at the mountains, and watch the world as it comes round. [4]
- I do not want to accuse Delilah, but a young person who assures me she can hear my watch ticking in my pocket, when I am in the next room, might undoubtedly tell many secrets, if so disposed. [6]
- From a mountain wall you watch in the morning, and, when you see him, you follow, and follow, and do not rest till you have found him. [11]
- Suddenly a great volume of sound filled the corridor, and the band burst forth into what many supposed to be "The Watch on the Rhine. [9]
- But she would very often come with me and watch me as I played there. [11]
- The three of us turned to the window to watch the figure, the music of which was just beginning. [9]
- Huck was already upon his watch when the ferryboat's lights went glinting past the wharf. [5]
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