Etymology
Origin of outwatch
Example Sentences
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For her employ the day, outwatch the night!
From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney
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
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.
‘Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen on some high, lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear.’
From Obiter Dicta Second Series by Birrell, Augustine
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