What is "watches"

Usage examples of "watches".

They came, and shifted restlessly, and glanced at their watches while an m.

She is slippery and fast, so it will be better than he watches it close by.

One was his watches, of which he always carried four or more, and kept them perfectly in time.

He did something he had not done in years--he dropped one of his watches, the one he was fingering at the moment.

He polished the watches on both ends of the chain, then compared their time with that shown by his two wrist watches, found one of the wrist watches a few seconds off, and made a correction.

Dimiter Daikoff, the self-claimed patriot, was washing dishes in the galley, so there did not seem to be reason for undue secrecy, but Watches and Ool, nevertheless, kept their voices lowered.

Daikoff strode to the forecastle where Watches and Ool had held their whispered conversation, and from the ventilator removed a small compact dictograph device which had been lowered there.

I mean, when the men attacked this Watches Bowen while he was pretending to be Forestay?

Daikoff was not out of eye-shot, however, and both Watches Bowen and Ool would have been vastly sur prised had they known that the big man whose dark eyes watched them so intently, was making those eyes serve as ears.

He had to pass so close to Watches Bowen that he almost scraped elbows with the gangster.

Dimiter Daikoff, the big, dark, scarred patriot, moved swiftly to bring out more eighty-year-old brandy as Watches Bowen and Ool tramped aboard and shoved noisily through the door.

Daikoff came forward silently, proffering cigarettes, but Watches knocked the package out of his hand.

The paper was a bill for such a direction finder that had been built for Watches Bowen.

Ool, Watches and his men, carrying the three men made temporarily unconscious by the mercy slugs, turned into another of the caverns and stumbled hastily along the rock-strewn floor.

But why he returned and brought Watches Bowen with him is still something we do not know.