Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwatches
Literary usage of Outwatches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"The exclusive, scholar is apt to degenerate into a Domine Sampson—a bookworm, a
pedant, a dreamy theorist, a clown or a savage in manners. If he "outwatches ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1851)
"He rises before the sun to read the Bible and seek on his knees that spiritual
strength which may carry him scatheless through the day; he outwatches the ..."
3. The Early Diary of Frances Burney, 1768-1778: With a Selection from Her by Fanny Burney (1889)
"He says a few kind and pleasant words; then bids all good night, and " outwatches
the Bear," pondering over the little which has been spared to tell us of ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1850)
"... painted passion-bright, Through blinding torrent« from the wrathful skies And
the hoarse thunders of the angered wave, Almost outwatches hope : and her ..."
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