Some of us (who can afford it) may hire a few more watchmen, permit fewer tourists to visit our stables, lock more gates and install surveillance cameras -- but no owner can have every animal out in the pasture perpetually watched.
I'd always watched what I ate, perpetually considering myself on a diet -- and thought myself fat when I was a wisp -- you've heard this story before.
It is inhabited by a cast of semi-crazed inadequates: desperate peasants cack-handedly trying to rip each other off while ogling each other's wives; a "perpetually drunk" doctor obsessively watching his neighbours; young women trying to sell themselves in a ruined mill; a disabled girl ineptly attempting to kill her cat.
Any tiredness evaporated after a few cold beers under the scorching sun and we passed an incredibly pleasant few hours doing the kind of people watching that perpetually nosey people like us love so dearly.
There is a feeling here of a moment perpetually on the verge waiting for Cruz, watching the drip-drip of poll numbers on screens of all sizes.
She is, Austen writes, "as much engaged in watching Mr Darcy's progress through his book, as in reading her own" and "perpetually either making some inquiry, or looking at his page".
And we're especially watching to see Jane work with the rest of the California Bureau of Investigation unit – the almost perpetually down-in-the-mouth Lisbon, the uber-deadpan Cho, the steely yet emotional Van Pelt, and the other one, Rigsby.
As I am perpetually two years behind whatever is cool and zeitgeisty on the teevee, I've not been watching this new Netflix joint, "House Of Cards".
Zheng Shui Ming, a perpetually tanned 53-year-old, can often be found stationed in front of the Western Union office, carefully watching the street while speaking into a walkie-talkie.
According to a police official who provided details to Mr. Ji, the suspect kept his captives perpetually starved so they would have little energy for escape, but he also gave them two computers on which they could "kill time" by watching movies and playing games.
Developed by data-loving Cambridge-based design studio Sosolimited, this video artwork is like Big Brother personified perpetually watching, deconstructing, and transforming a live television broadcast.
