Sentence examples for like a watchman from inspiring English sources
The most mundane moment -- like a watchman studying a litterbug's tossed cigarette box -- carries ominous overtones.
A skunk each night made its rounds like a watchman, taking the same route past the garage and through the stand of bamboo and diagonally across Dr. Sondervan's back yard, and disappearing down his driveway.
The Sun took it over in 1917 and added a beautiful clock, which, miraculously, is still there, jutting out over the corner like a watchman's lantern.
Although much less optimistic in many, many ways, I felt like Go Set a Watchman was a far more realistic and honest book.
The Radney family remains sanguine that someone will write the book that Harper Lee never did, or that if there are more manuscript chapters of "The Reverend" they, like "Go Set a Watchman," might see the light of day and the ink of a printing press.
The first self-published title ever to top the Amazon charts, it's knocked heavyweights like Go Set A Watchman and The Girl on a Train effortlessly off the podium – perhaps unsurprisingly, since pretty much everyone with young children wants them just to Go the Fuck To Sleep.
I can also watch the local fox, which visits my chickens at dusk each day to check up on them, like a malevolent watchman.
"It was like a wave of dirt that covered us," said Emilio Renderos, 60, a watchman employed in Las Colinas.
At eight o'clock, a watchman heard a rowboat.
He raises cows and works part time as a watchman.
