Citations:everwatchful

English citations of everwatchful

• 1818, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations by Examples from the Best Writers. To which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar, page 19:

  Everwatchful. adj. [ever and watchful...] Always vigilant.

• 1822, The British Poets: Including Translations ..., page 130

  The goddess, last, a gentle breeze supplies, To curl old ocean, and to warm the skies. And now rejoicing in the prosperous gales, With beating heart Ulysses spreads his sails ; Placed at the helm he sat, and mark'd the skies, Nor closed in sleep his everwatchful eyes. There view'd the Pleiads, and the northern team, And great Orion's more refulgent beam, To which, around the axle of the sky The Bear revolving, points his golden eye : Who shines exalted on the' etherial plain, Nor ...

• 1849, Augustus French Boyle, The Phonographic Word-book Number Two ...: Intended Immediately to Succeed the Phonographic Word-book No. One, and the Phonographic Class-book and Reader, page 119

  ... breakwater:—Flammable, philologer; freebooter, freeliver, freeholder, forwarder, fracture, frankly:-Overpeople, everwatchful, overwatchful:- Triphammer , trapdoor, tropical, tropically, tribunal, trafficker, trample, trumpery, tremble, triumphal, truthful, water:level, trinomial, trundle, trencher, tragical, tragically, attractor, tranquil, tranquilly, triangle:– Dreamful, dromedary, Adrianople, drainable, director, directory, derogatory, drinker:—Enlivener, unlimber:— Cherubical:—Cleopatra, clamber, ...

• 1912, William le Queux, The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return

  The city was agog,for the hum of life rose from its crowded streets and busy marketplaces, mingling now and then with the ominous roll of the war drums, the twanging of ginkris, the clashing of cymbals, and the shouts of the eager, everwatchful troops.

• 2004, Edgar Stanton Maclay, A History of American Privateers, Digital Antiquaria (→ISBN), page 315

  In the hurry of the moment [the surrender] at our rounding to, José, one of the men above spoken of, seized a brand from the caboose, proceeded toward the magazine, and would have carried his diabolical intentions into effect only for the vigilance of our everwatchful lieutenant, who checked him ere too late, brought him on deck, nor quit his hold till the brand was cast overboard and the dastard thrown thrice his length by an indignant thrust of the lieutenant's powerful arm. With much ...