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Example sentences for "watched them"

  • He watched them with a great feeling of desolation and homesickness as they flung themselves into carriages and shouted at one another.

  • Mrs. Pascoe with red arms akimbo, watched them as they ate their supper.

  • Peter was conscious that Robin had watched them both.

  • Then, as I watched them, I saw that some who had been the loudest in talking of what they should do when they were tried, were now the first to give up altogether making any head at all against the crowd of that city.

  • Now I marked them as they talked, and I could see that their eyes were often turned from all the beauty round them towards one far end of the garden; and as I watched them, I saw that they were still passing on towards it.

  • I bowed my best bow as the Chevalier presented me, and from the corner of my eye, with inward malice, I watched them as I did so.

  • Presently, as I watched them, St. Auban spoke, and his voice was that of a man whose gums are toothless, or else whose nether lip is drawn in over his teeth whilst he speaks.

  • Eugène watched them with a cynical eye, then laughed brutally, and, gathering up his hat and cloak, he moved towards the balcony door and vanished.

  • With my elbow on the sill of the open window I watched them awhile, listening with a boy's eagerness to what they had to say of the day's doings.

  • Maisonville, wrathfully, as he watched them go, "they should hang.

  • We watched them in silence as they drew nearer, and then something in the walk and appearance of the foremost began to bother me.

  • Forgetful of my presence, he stood murmuring in her ear like a lover; and as I watched them my trouble slipped from my mind, and gave place to a vaguer regret that I had been a wanderer throughout my life.

  • One of the women, seeing our curiosity as we watched them, drew some of the bulbs out of the earth ovens, and handed them to us.

  • We watched them intently; and, as we drew near, we saw that the line had caught on something beneath the surface of the water, so that they could not extricate it.

  • He watched them a moment, noting their ease of movement and business-like air, and then turned his gaze to the horses.

  • He watched them, dazed, saw them ascend a rise, become a vacillating speck in the moonlight, and drop from view in a hollow beyond the rise.

  • Gripped in new fear, he watched them closely, saw them hurry, pause, hurry again, all in dazzling array.

  • Miss Rand, with eyes that were kind but very, very sharp, watched them.

  • Arkwright did not know any reason for his interest, but he watched them breathlessly, and the sense that he had had, on first entering the room, of being on the verge of some new experience, deepened with him.

  • In agony of fear for Lee that transcended physical torture he watched them go.

  • Lying there, he watched them riding in a direction that showed them to be taking the short cut through the hills.

  • Till their dim figures vanished he watched them go.

  • After he'd watched them awhile, he made out that they were 'Rapahoes, and he took the news to camp.

  • He could see two or three tiny sparks faintly glowing, which went out one by one as he watched them.

  • He watched them for a little while, and then began to walk along the hilltop to make sure that there were no more antelope there.

  • I watched them as they retreated over the plain to their deserted homes, and I took a coldly polite farewell of the Koordi.

  • As we rounded the point and quickly came in sight of the governor's vessels, I watched them with a powerful telescope.

  • Coffee and sherbet were then handed to him, but he declined both, and insisted upon two of his chiefs drinking the whole; during which operation he watched them attentively, as though in expectation of some poisonous effect.

  • With him always, at his side as he watched them, was one to whom he gave his heart and soul in love--a twin brother.

  • He watched them with a new interest as first one and then the other pounced upon the noose at his neck.

  • His captors were exceedingly grave, and quiet, during the short time I watched them; not one moving from his place except the one who applied the lash.

  • I watched them closely, as they came toward us, and I thought I detected them drawing their guns for use, stealthily.

  • He watched them persistently, wishing to detect their fraud, to convince himself of their falsehood.

  • He watched them in silence, listened to their words; their audacity pleased him, but he was embarrassed and repelled by their condescending and haughty bearing toward him.

  • It vexed him to feel that he was superfluous among men, and the more closely he watched them, the more intense was this vexation.

  • Four guards lounging outside the entrance watched them pass, nodding briefly to the man with her.

  • Tarlok, the leopard, crouching among the dense foliage of a thick branch above the trail, watched them pass.

  • I watched them, impotent to help, for as you know the curlew is perhaps the wildest of our native birds; and even had I caught the wounded one to set its wing, it would have pined and died.

  • I watched them disappear, feeling as if an iron belt was drawn tight round my heart, their cries growing fainter as the deepening shadows slowly closed upon the moor.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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