Lexicographical Neighbors of Outwatching
Literary usage of Outwatching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1881)
"Barral ' outwatching the Bear,' when winter skies were clear above the hills, or
studying alchemy in his closet, is a strange solitary figure, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... "with some Hundred or so of Members, stretched on tables round him," sits
erect; outwatching the Bear. This day, a second solemn 1 ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"What is it, then, amid this light, That stands upon the road afar, Both in the
day and through the night, outwatching every star ? ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1839)
"... and has lighted the taper of the pale and thought-worn student, who is "
outwatching the bear," over some ancient volume. father or his grandfather; ..."
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