Lexicographical Neighbors of Awatch
Literary usage of Awatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"... JACK (thieves),awatch. From the gypsy gack, an eye or watch. Watches were at
one time commonly known as bull's eyes. "To church a gack," or " christen a ..."
2. Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society: June 1925, Volume Xxvi, Number 2 by Oregon Historical Society (1901)
"awatch- a-he-lay-ee." After which she was taken the rest of the way and presented,
while the same cry of applause and approbation was again raised. ..."
3. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"He flung on the crested board, where chilly Fears Behold the Reaper's ground,
Death sitting grim, awatch for his predestined ones, Mid shrieks and ..."
4. Geographical Essays by William Morris Davis (1909)
"This stage of mountain sculpture was chosen because it is so well represented in
the S.awatch range of the Rocky mountains in Colorado in association with ..."
5. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1824)
"... awatch, which she concealed in the straw of her bed, and which might have been
the inducement of the criminals. ..."
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