Watchmen sentence example
watchmen
- The watchmen appointed by parishes were useless, inadequate, inefficient and untrustworthy, acting often as accessories in aiding and abetting crime.
- In addition, the village watchmen or chaukidars, a primitive institution paid from local sources but to some extent incorporated in the general system, aggregated about 700,000; while a special force of military police, numbering about 20,000 under officers seconded from the army, is maintained along the frontier, more especially in Burma.
- Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns might have been called parodic superhero comics: attempts to infiltrate some reality and see what happens.
- The irrigated area is divided into districts, in each of which is an overseer and a staff of watchmen to see to the opening and shutting of the modules (see Hydraulics, §§ 54 to 56) which deliver the water into the minor channels.
- They are Nature's watchmen--links which connect the days of animated life.Advertisement
- The watchmen know that morning is coming; but they ca n't be impatient and shirk off before the relief comes along.
- He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
- The early records for the City of Canterbury show that in 1787 there were 9 watchmen, including two supernumeraries.
- Each city would appoint watchmen who would work in shifts, so that the people were continually under guard.
- Up until this time, the towns had merely employed a few watchmen to patrol the streets and call out the time and weather.Advertisement
- The watch committee resolved that all the men should become watchmen under the control of an inspector with the day policing divided among them.
- These include the watchmen, the shepherds and several other households.
- Two watchmen continually patrolled the village at night to guard against crime or the risk of fire among the closely packed wooden buildings.
- Faulkes, Zen (1993) Who watches the watchmen?
- But Israel 's leaders, the Lord says, are like blind watchmen.Advertisement
- By 1585 their numbers had risen to four and their duties had been established as musical night watchmen and civic entertainers.
- Let us be faithful watchmen, that their blood be not upon our heads.
- Although referred to as constables, these four men were in fact on a par with the old town watchmen.
- Judith called out from afar to the watchmen at the gates, Open, open the gate !
- The latter, about the time of Elizabeth's succession, expressed his hope that the bishops would become pastors, labourers and watchmen; and that the great riches of bishoprics would be diminished and reduced to mediocrity; that, being delivered from courtly and regal pomp, the bishops might take care of the flock of Christ.Advertisement