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 William Sidney Walker
‘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 Augustine Birrell
"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
As the Bear never sets, to outwatch him must mean to sit up all night.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
The talking parliamentary bore can outwatch the Bear.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth
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