| 单词 | night watcher |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight watcher c. One who keeps awake at night. Also night watcher. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > one who stays awake wakerc1290 watcher1509 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxxiiii Of nyght watchers & beters of the stretes playnge by nyght on instrumentes & vsynge lyke Folyes whan tyme is to rest. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. ii. 69 Get on your Night-Gowne, least occasion call vs, And shew vs to be Watchers . View more context for this quotation 1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 78 She kneel'd, A faded watcher through the weary night,..In deep, perpetual prayer for him she loved. 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands iv. 117 There two figures are kneeling, motionless and absorbed in prayer... Still the two watchers kneel on. < as lemmas |
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