"Outwatch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the ...
— Bulfinch's Mythology • Thomas Bulfinch
... those happy years, their only fear That death would break the bonds that bound their souls; And next their eldest born, who sought his son, And drank deep wisdom from the Buddha's lips, And by his side that mother we have seen Outwatch the night, whose sweet and earnest face By five and twenty years of wedded love, By five and twenty years of busy cares— The cares of home, with all its daily joys— Had gained that look of holy motherhood[7] That millions worship on their ...
— The Dawn and the Day • Henry Thayer Niles
... become confessors to the most powerful monarchs, teachers in the best schools of Christendom, and preachers in its principal pulpits. They had become an organization, instinct with life, endued with energy and will, and forming a body which could outwatch Argus with his hundred eyes, and outwork Briareus with his hundred arms. It had forty thousand eyes open upon every cabinet and private family in Europe, and forty thousand arms extended over the necks of both ...
— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and Colleges • John Lord |
