Sentence examples for watchman a from inspiring English sources
Go Set a Watchman A Novel. Harper Lee Harper: 278 pp., $27.99.
"He's trying to be a good night watchman," a relative of Mr. Gore's said.
She didn't publish another novel until last year, when "Go Set a Watchman," a prequel to "Mockingbird," appeared.
Before making his pile in Vienna he was a restaurant violinist, a night watchman, a steersman on a canal boat, and taught the tenor horn in an orphanage.
The oldest was 53, the youngest was 2, and the breadwinners included a cooper, a watchman, a cabinetmaker, a steamboat steward and a doctor.
As a sign of its goodwill towards her, the trinket shop at the museum has just pre-ordered 50 copies of Go Set a Watchman – a symbolic gesture, as it is the number of copies of To Kill a Mockingbird that were purchased in 1960 by the town's then only bookshop, Ernestine's.
Most of the households lived from subsistence farming, whereas three women's husbands had some kind of wage income (a policeman, a watchman and a businessman).
In 2015, her publisher, HarperCollins, produced a second novel by Lee, Go Set a Watchman -- a book published from an old, rediscovered manuscript that some feared Lee hadn't properly signed off on.
"He's trying to be a good night watchman," an unnamed relative of his told The Times before his speech.
Go Set a Watchman, an early draft of Mockingbird set 20 years after it, shattered all that.
It was fascinating science, but I found it more interesting talking to the night watchman, an old sea dog who had been on countless research expeditions.
