look-outs

Mr. Pike sent look-outs aloft to every skysail-yard, and the Elsinore slipped along through the smooth sea.

CHAPTER XVIII 2010

They're holding hands constantly while balancing on one leg each; they're all waving directly to you; they're stepping out on their own shadows begging you to see the oneness at the horizontal end of the world; they are waiting like little bird look-outs squeezing just behind an elephant's ear for day that lies ahead; and they are not afraid to shut both eyes and lay awake; they leave leaves everywhere.

Dolphins 2010

Among the Apache it was customary for young men to accompany four war-parties in subordinate positions, as look-outs and auxiliaries, before they were considered fully-fledged warriors.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

The IDPs asked for more protection and since then the UN has built a 24-hour armed boundary with barbed wire, sand bags and look-outs.

Heidi Kingstone: Sudan and the International Criminal Court 2009

A few of them seem to be employed as look-outs or, a little higher up the career ladder, "shooters," for the drug gangs.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Miami Vice: The Class Analysis 2008

Children are being used as look-outs and trigger men for insurgent attacks.

Jonathan Powers: Iraq's Junior Mujahedeen 2008

Until these look-outs returned he would permit no disembarkation from his ships.

Hellenica 2007

While drinking our tea, the look-outs warned us of the approach of a second party, which went through the same process of saluting and observing as the first had done.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

The fourth party having gone with extravagant manifestations of delight, the men were hurried into the canoe, and, when all were seated, and the look-outs embarked, we quietly pushed off, but not

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Over the easy ascent is run a zigzag path; half-way, up it passes piles of stone that denote building, and it abuts at the summit upon one of those “look-outs” which are essentially Arab.

The Land of Midian 2003