What is "watchfires"

Usage examples of "watchfires".

Beyond were a few watchfires on the hilltop, then only the moonlit slopes rolling toward the distant Silver, toward the much nearer battlefield.

The sheep were still his responsibility, and he had to light watchfires, he had to, for the sheep would be slaughtered without them.

All around the city was a circle of watchfires and torches, she scarcely needed the one in her hand.

Paks had just gone off-watch and was enjoying a hot drink by one of the watchfires before going to bed when an excited Volya appeared at her elbow.

Stammel had not been awake by one of the watchfires, Paks might have fallen asleep without telling her news.

The cookfires and the watchfires lit the encampment, and he heard the voices of his clan raised like sparks into the night.

From along the entire southern periphery of the camp they came, wave after yelling, screeching wave of them, grasping brands from the smoldering embers of watchfires and whirling them into full, flaming life, before hurling them into tents or horse lines or among knots of sleep-drugged troopers.

No fires were lit other than the usual watchfires, to keep the camp as normal-looking as possible.