Etymology
Origin of outwatch
Example Sentences
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The talking parliamentary bore can outwatch the Bear.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Edgeworth, Maria
See Delia there outwatch the midnight hour, Sitting, white-stoled, until the dawn of day!
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Williams, Theodore C.
All night her locks are wet with dew, Her eyes outwatch the moon.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Ingelow, Jean
As the Bear never sets, to outwatch him must mean to sit up all night.
From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John
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 Symonds, John Addington
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