Unwatched

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., IV. v. 499. All vnwachit sodanely Thai fell on sleip.

1548.  Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke iv. 41 b. Of all these dooeth our enemie leaue not one thyng vnwatched, whereby he maie drawe vs to damnacion.

1593.  Donne, Sat., ii. 98. But when he sells or changes land, he impaires His writings, and (unwatch’d) leaves out ses heires.

1602.  Shaks., Ham., III. i. 197. Madnesse in great Ones, must not vnwatch’d go.

1795.  Coleridge, Silver Thimble, 49. And I from unwatch’d needle’s erring point Had surely suffer’d on each finger-joint Those wounds.

1812.  Crabbe, Tales, xi. 458. Rarely from town, nor then unwatch’d, he goes.

1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., ci, Unwatch’d, the garden bough shall sway.

1870.  Bryant, Iliad, I. I. 30. Thou ever dost suspect me, Nor can I act unwatched.