In less than a second Lord Crawford was at their head, and, dispatching an Archer to alarm the King and his household, drew back his little party to some distance behind their watchfire, that they might not be seen by its light. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She was arrested Feb. 9, 1919, and served five days in District Jail for participating in watchfire demonstration. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As the watchfire blazed up, its gleam fell upon masses of honeysuckle and woodbine, on white, mouldering walls beneath, and dark, waving trees above; while the group of mountaineers who gathered round its light, with their long beards and vivid dresses, completed the strange picture. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A band of guards was marching from the longhouse, past the watchfire. ❋ Green, Roland (1992)
Then he caught up a burning brand from the watchfire, whirled it about his head, and flung it high into the dry thatch of the longhouse. ❋ Green, Roland (1992)
They are signaled by watchfire from the island yonder, and now captains hoist canvas. ❋ Wurts, Janny (1989)
The news had arrived quickly, via the watchfire telegraph running from Maisak to the capital. ❋ Cook, Glen (1988)
And so they parted; the civilised man to tell his little story of human feeling and native intelligence, “spending their sweetness in the desert air,” — the shepherd to relate his adventure over the watchfire, and perhaps draw forth from some sexagenarian herdsman his boyish recollections of the fall of San Fiorenzo and Bastia, and the march of the English red-coats over the mountains. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
Roaming over the boundless waste as the necessity of changing the pasturage of his flock requires, he finds his best shelter in the skirts of the forest, and his food in the chestnuts, which he luxuriously roasts in the embers of his watchfire when he is tired of eating them raw. ❋ Thomas Forester (N/A)
But there was no avoiding it; and when we drew near the long white line which glittered like a watchfire in the night, I called out to Yoosef and the lad, both of whom lay plunged in deathlike stupor, to rise and get ready for the hard swim, now inevitable. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Like a love-lighted watchfire, all night at the gate. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
The villagers had their own chatting round the watchfire, discussing local politics, chiefly, as to whether 'Abderrahhman the governor of ❋ James Finn (N/A)
A sentinel pacing near the watchfire while Lincoln was once telling some stories quietly remarked that "He had a mighty powerful memory, but an awful poor forgettery." ❋ Various (N/A)
The first was an old one about Prince Eugene, who was another hero, loved in camps, and besung with ardor around every watchfire. ❋ Various (N/A)
A dozen paces from him was the sentry moving slowly shoreward toward the watchfire. ❋ Unknown (1914)
Why were they keeping watch on the coast while careless that their watchfire showed inland for leagues? ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)
Thus high in hope they sat through the livelong night by the highways of war, and many a watchfire did they kindle. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Dock's watchfire, but the dog was in the pen, and the evil from the water was sure, while the evil from "varmints" was only possible. ❋ Unknown (1898)
Valmond saw it from his window, and knew it to be Parpon's watchfire, by the grave of his brother Gabriel. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
