Sherlock Holmes' colleague

Usage examples of watson.

Ole missus -- dat's Miss Watson -- she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans.

Dick says, "me and Tom Braman was having some drink in Eddie's Bar there in Key West, and Ed Watson banged in there roaring drunk and set up shots for everybody.

Thanks also to Mandy and Emma for being patient and understanding, Fishburn Hedges for allowing me to use their design studio after hours and at weekends again (and again) and, finally, to Phil Watson with whom I used to exchange Howard books and Conan comics many, many years ago.

We was all alone quite a few years before we left Arkansas and went on back to Columbia County Florida and stayed a year with Granny Ellen Watson and Aunt Minnie Collins and our cousins.

First, Watson and Kristy's mom adopted a baby girl named Emily Mich-elle who was born in Vietnam.

Now they have a Bernese mountain dog named Shannon, plus Watson has this old, fat cat named Boo-Boo.

Watson, their excellent housekeeper, in charge of shutting up the house and putting the servants on board wages.

That was a lot of cash in them days, but there was forty acres of good soil and more across the river, the most high ground anywhere south of Chokoloskee, and Mister Watson liked Pavioni from the start.

Them farmers at Half Way Creek and Chokoloskee liked to laugh behind his back, but Mister Watson shipped potatoes for three-four years before he reckoned potatoes didn't pay, and he always raised a few for our own table.

Watson proceeded to Everglade and Half Way Creek, two small farming communities on Chokoloskee Bay, in the northern part of the Ten Thousand Islands.

One night Lige told what had took place at George Bartlum's produce auction room down at Cayo Hueso, or Bone Key—that was the real name for Key West, Lige informed us—how Watson come in there good and drunk and announced to Dolphus Santini of Chokoloskee that he needed help with a land claim in the Islands.

Said Watson's nigra got away, out to the clam shacks on Pavilion Key, and the nigra claimed that Mister Watson ordered the three killings.

If Watson started teasing him in front of the others about his daughter's wild ideas, he'd clam up completely.

Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it.

The behaviorists, of whom the American psychologist John Broadus Watson was most prominent, tended to view all learning in the light of conditioned reflexes.