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  • noun Plural form of watchfire.

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Examples

  • And they did live by watchfires--and the thrones, â¨

    John Lundberg: The Apocalypse in Verse John Lundberg 2011

  • And they did live by watchfires – and the thrones,

    2006 » July 2006

  • And they did live by watchfires – and the thrones,

    Rodger LeGrand reads “Darkness” by George Gordon, Lord Byron 2006

  • From this place one night they sent off a party under Democrates, a Temenite70, up into the mountains, where the stragglers reported having seen watchfires.

    Anabasis 2007

  • But some of the stragglers from the camp reported having seen an army, and the blaze of many watchfires in the night.

    Anabasis 2007

  • He went and reported that he had seen no watchfires, but he had got a man, whom he brought back with him, carrying a Persian bow and quiver, and a sagaris or battleaxe like those worn by the Amazons.

    Anabasis 2007

  • And they did live by watchfires - and the thrones,

    Darkness Sean 2006

  • Watch at night the innumerable constellations glittering like so many solemn watchfires of the Eternal in the limitless silence which is no void but throbs with the presence of a single calm and tremendous existence; see there Orion with his sword and belt shining...

    Imagine the endlessness of Time Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Watch at night the innumerable constellations glittering like so many solemn watchfires of the Eternal in the limitless silence which is no void but throbs with the presence of a single calm and tremendous existence; see there Orion with his sword and belt shining...

    Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • And they did live by watchfires -- and the thrones,

    Darkness 2002

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