Citations:nightwatch


 * 1999, Orin Starn, Nightwatch: the politics of protest in the Andes:
 * This meant that more than 300,000 villagers had become ronderos. The Peruvian sociologist Nora Bonifaz has reason to assert that the rondas were "perhaps the most significant social phenomenon of the 1980s on the panorama of rural Peru." I examine the rise of the rondas in this chapter. A view of villagers as chained to the past led some reporters in the 1980s to presume that the nightwatch must be "ancestral" and "traditional." The truth is ...
 * 2009, Mike Sielski, Fading Echoes: A True Story of Rivalry and Brotherhood from the Football Field to the Fields of Honor, Penguin (ISBN 9781101139974):
 * Hi, I've been very busy for a few days. We just came back from an overnight camping trip. I had to organize the nightwatch, which surprisingly went flawlessly. I'm in charge of the firewatch all night here in the barracks, and almost nightly someone has to wake me up ...
 * 2011, Laura Anne Gilman, The Shattered Vine: Book Three of The Vineart War, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781439126905):
 * But he did not go into the yard, although they whispered to him; it was enough to stand there for a long moment, watching the mist rise at shoulder level, hearing the stirring of the nightwatch slaves as they came in and those in the sleep house rising to greet the day, while behind him the House started to wake. All was, for the moment, well here. There was something he needed to do, first.
 * 2011, Sarah Mallory, The Dangerous Lord Darrington, Harlequin (ISBN 9781459212428), page 136:
 * 'Yes. That can only be an advantage.' She tilted her head, listening as the cry of the nightwatch calling the hour filtered in through the shuttered window. 'It is very late,' she said.
 * 2015, Jos C. N. Raadschelders, Government: A Public Administration Perspective: A Public Administration Perspective, Routledge (ISBN 9781317469421):
 * During those few decades between the 1810s and the 1860s that we know as the nightwatch state, Western states withdrew from a variety of functions in the economic and social spheres but retained their coercive powers. Men's inclination for violence makes the services of the military, the police, and the justice system necessary under public sector authority. Calls for a government that works better and costs less, massive privatization, massive personnel layoffs, and so forth, ...
 * 2015, A Year of Shakespeare: Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781474246279):
 * Here the word is synonymous with a range of institutional killjoys: the parish officer or 'beadle' who whips minor offenders, the 'nightwatch constable' who catches them, and the 'domineering pedant' from whose instruction they have clearly failed to benefit: all agents of lawenforcement, justice and corrective instruction, all sworn enemies to love, freedom and libido.