What is "unwatched"

Usage examples of "unwatched".

They killed the songbirds in their cages and gnawed unwatched babes in their cradles.

Wherever they went, children and goodwives melted away into the woods, leaving toys discarded and pots unwatched, whilst the farmers of the Starn were always in the farthest, muddiest back hollows of their fields, too hard at work to even look up when a plate-armored shadow fell across them.

James looked around to see that he was unwatched and moved to the rear of the alley.

I only saw the flames running through the lanes between the stubble, the whole field alight and the smoke pouring off it in black clouds, untended, unwatched, filling the air with a stifling, choking darkness.

But Jem, the first moment he had found himself unwatched, had put out as fast as he could fly to Hurricane Hall, to inform Major Warfield of what had occurred.

Hammers nothing but sullen defiance, but now, alone and unwatched in the cell, his guts are twisted into a cold knot of terror and despair, and he can feel tears dampening the denim.

She had imagined herself dining with him in their sitting-room unwatched, sitting together afterwards, for an hour or two, in silence perhaps, but at least alone.

She had to go into hiding when the news of the landing arrived, but her empty house, left unwatched, became very useful for receiving the Bonapartists, who wished for a place of concealment, amongst them, as we shall see, being, of all people, Fouche!

They were never unwatched, they were never allowed to stand guard at night, and Sharpe knew that even the smallest attempt to break away from the city would lead to immediate death, yet they were not otherwise treated badly.

So you may sometimes see a little, grave boy walking through a field, unwatched as he believes, suddenly fling his feet and his head every which way.

To move, speak and breathe,--go out and come in unwatched, and free from danger!

From its lonesome perch, an unwatched TV set nicked frizzy pictures of a soap-opera character weeping for her boyfriend who had been dispatched to help keep peace in the Middle East.

Just then an unwatched foot kicked her ankle, hurting her and causing her to delay her magic.

But if Uwen were Idrys, and if he were Cefwyn, then he would know that Meiden would not do anything unwatched, and he would never have to hear of it or trouble his soul unless there was reason.

When she thought of the day at the Palio, the Middle Ages seemed to be passing, often unwatched, outside the windows, and the more immediate and important drama was taking place in the apartment, beside the long table set with crostini and slices of pan forte and silver jugs of wine at which, from time to time, she exchanged words with Rosie Fortinbras.