Etymology
Origin of outwatch
Example Sentences
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They had become an organization, instinct with life, endued with energy and will, and forming a body which could outwatch Argus with his hundred eyes, and outwork Briareus with his hundred arms.
From A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
"Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear, Or thrice-great Hermes, and unsphere The spirit of Plato."
From Eugene Aram — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
His followers in-510- the barge or villa, his valet-de-chambre and butler, his lackeys who outwatch the night, get paid.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
All night her locks are wet with dew, Her eyes outwatch the moon.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
It seemed to be a trial between them, which could outwatch the other.
From John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope
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