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If a watchman spotted flames, he set in action his watchman's rattle to awaken the community to come to fight the fire.
Kate Kelly: NYC Fire Museum: A Hidden Gem Kate Kelly 2011
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If a watchman spotted flames, he set in action his watchman's rattle to awaken the community to come to fight the fire.
Kate Kelly: NYC Fire Museum: A Hidden Gem Kate Kelly 2011
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` They might a-given me that watchman's job, 'were his last words as I went away.
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` They might a-given me that watchman's job, 'were his last words as I went away.
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If a watchman spotted flames, he set in action his watchman's rattle to awaken the community to come to fight the fire.
Kate Kelly: NYC Fire Museum: A Hidden Gem Kate Kelly 2011
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And little my mother dreamed -- she was a grand lady, what you call a cattle-queen -- little she dreamed my fine education was to fit me in the end for a night watchman's wife.
CHAPTER II 2010
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It should be possible to climb over into the gallery while the watchman's beat took him in the other direction.
A River So Long 2010
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Energy, humor, the yawn of the watchman's boredom.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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A young man in slouchy jeans and dark watchman's cap, iPod buds in place, nodded, in coach, to the tune in his head.
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The watchman's word: Or, The encouragements and dangers of the Christian church; a sermon by Robert Shields
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