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So, putting out the watchlight, which every night burned in the Chamber, she departed thence, and sate downe in a close corner of the house, to see what would be the end of all this stirre, after her Husbands comming home.
The Decameron 2004
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The breathtaking advances in science and technology demand that we always keep our ethical watchlight burning.
President Accepting Human Radiation Final Report ITY National Archives 1995
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a watchlight to warn her from the rocks whereon he had made shipwreck.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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a light and a shadow; these were the watchlight and the hull of the vessel in which she was to embark for Europe, and which, all ready for sea, lay at anchor, waiting for a breeze.
Paul et Virginie. English Bernardin de Saint-Pierre 1775
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