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graveyard watch
noun
The middle watch on a ship, from midnight to 4 am.
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Just before dawn on Feb. 8, 1955, he was on a graveyard watch after the staff members had gone for the night when a teletype jumped to life with a bulletin: Georgi Malenkov had resigned as Russia's premier.
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And, anyway, Holmes was seen in that final graveyard shot, watching Freeman's Watson making his touching soliloquy ("I was so alone and I owe you so much" – it could be an epitaph for the ultimate Sherlock geek).
After a few weeks, he pointed out the ants' graveyard, and watched with wonder as several of them dragged the bodies of their dead comrades and deposited them there.
Tilo misses Musa, but "the battered angels in the graveyard that kept watch over their battered charges held open the doors between worlds (illegally, just a crack), so that the souls of the present and the departed could mingle, like guests at the same party".
Though Lucille is ostensibly the film's villain, Chastain approached the character from a place of profound empathy, reading graveyard poetry and watching films like "Rebecca," "Misery" and "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" to get in the proper mind-set.
Round the corner, outside St Paul's and St Peter's Anglican church, a team of dealers sell in the graveyard and the alleyway, watched over by lookouts at Grays train station.
During the hour bus ride, we passed what seemed like countless graveyards, and I watched as the landscape became increasingly more suburban and forested.
"Everyday we'd watch Beetlejuice's Graveyard Revue.
In 2002, a caretaker at the immediately adjoining graveyard answered an inquiry about Watch Tower's graveyard by noting, "I couldn't tell you who is buried on it because it has absolutely no markers or headstones".
Watch for the graveyard cave trap, and the knight will drop his axe!
He found that watching Age 13 with Graveyard Mountain Home as the soundtrack enhanced the film: "Age 13 is not necessarily an enjoyable film to watch... but viewing it with the Chroma Key soundtrack makes an odd experience even odder yet wholly compelling, with a mysterious filmstrip allure that freezes a bygone era".
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