night-watcher

It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

The sentinels paced up and down more quickly, to dissipate that feeling of shivering cold which runs through the night-watcher during the first hour of the morn.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

For Luke had been a constant night-watcher by his master’s bed.

VIII. Daylight on the Wreck. Book III—The Downfall 1917

It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere.

XII. The Minister’s Vigil 1917

A great sigh of relief broke from her as she heard his door open and shut, and silence fell on everything, that palpable silence which seems to press upon the night-watcher with merciless, smothering weight.

The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 5 Gilbert Parker 1897

A great sigh of relief broke from her as she heard his door open and shut, and silence fell on everything, that palpable silence which seems to press upon the night-watcher with merciless, smothering weight.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

A great sigh of relief broke from her as she heard his door open and shut, and silence fell on everything, that palpable silence which seems to press upon the night-watcher with merciless, smothering weight.

The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

Nancy's bosom heaved, as though she had been hastening overmuch; her face was deeply coloured; her eyes had an unwonted appearance, resembling those of a night-watcher at weary dawn.

In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing 1880

Maggie; there were always too many, and all of them things of evil when one's nerves had at last done for one all that nerves could do; had left one in a darkness of prowling dangers that was like the predicament of the night-watcher in a beast-haunted land who has no more means for a fire.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 Henry James 1879

Maggie; there were always too many, and all of them things of evil when one's nerves had at last done for one all that nerves could do; had left one in a darkness of prowling dangers that was like the predicament of the night-watcher in a beast-haunted land who has no more means for a fire.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879