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nightwatchmen

n. (plural of nightwatchman English)

Usage examples of "nightwatchmen".

Matsui's two nightwatchmen had retreated to the back room to resume standing guard over money and records.

In this way the gang avoided violence, and the nightwatchmen augmented their meagre wages.

One of the nightwatchmen, Conan noted, probably come to relieve the gate guard.

Instead she woke in the dead of night, in those dark standstill hours where no one but thieves and nightwatchmen were about, feeling as if she'd been running through the streets.

One of the nightwatchmen, by the flickering lantern near his outstretched hand.

There were no nightwatchmen in this part of Tarv, to swing glaring lanterns into the faces of late loiterers and ask questions.