night-watching

And with all the night-watching, neither of us was sleeping.

Words Are Medicine: The Legacy of A True Physician and A Healing Between Father and Daughter 2009

Colds are caused by "the application of cold to the body giving a check to perspiration," influenza epidemics are "undoubtedly" due to the "state of the atmosphere," and brain fever is often caused by "night-watching, especially when joined with hard study."

Vitalogy Edward Willett 2007

The long night-watching superinduced sleep which lasted well into the next day.

Hellenica 2007

It was only during the last ten days that he had agreed to pay him for night-watching, leaving the man to do as much additional day-work as he pleased — for which, of course, he would be paid at the regular contract price.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

In this sickness he not only shared the duties of night-watching with the nurse, but at frequent intervals he would slip away from callers, and even from cabinet meetings, to visit briefly the little sufferers.

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Henry Ketcham

If his enemies, by way of reproach, have attributed to him a serious periodical disease, his flatterers, probably under the idea that sleep is incompatible with greatness, have evinced an equal disregard of truth in speaking of his night-watching.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

By this time I was worn weak as a rat with night-watching and day-watching: but of this he made no account whatever.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

It was about eight years arter I 'ad left off going to sea and took up night-watching.

Deep Waters, the Entire Collection 1903

In this sickness he not only shared the duties of night-watching with the nurse, but at frequent intervals he would slip away from callers, and even from cabinet meetings, to visit briefly the little sufferers.

The Life of Abraham Lincoln Ketcham, Henry 1901

For this night-watching we always used the double-barrel with buckshot, as a rifle is uncertain in the dark; while with a shot-gun at such a distance, and with men lying down, a person who is watchful may be sure that they cannot get up, no matter how quick they are, without being riddled.

Sheriff's Work on a Ranch 1896