Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there he sat through it. It was like seeing a child at a pantomime, to watch him. He would laugh at the comic songs, and, ye Gods! he cried at the sentimental ones...
...prove my identity," said he anxiously, and he pulled out his pocket-book. "Here's my card. No, it is n't, either. But - I don't want to wake my brother, you see, - I have my name on my watch, and - yes," triumphantly, "I have my Bursar's certificate." And he put it into my hand...
...protested, but it was of no avail. The book was forced upon me, and I was compelled to stumble through first the scanning and then the translation of an ode or two. Mr. Archibald held his watch open in his hand...
...watch and sigh...
...Syracuse University has recently been presented with a watch about three hundred years old. The watch weighs nearly half a pound, troy weight, and keeps very good time...