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1  From this time I was most narrowly watched.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I watched them a few moments till they got up to our lane gate.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  They stimulate him to greater watchfulness, and enhance his power to capture his slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  While he was in the act of doing so, I watched my chance, and gave him a heavy kick close under the ribs.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  I, however, watched my chance, while Covey was looking in an opposite direction, and started for St. Michael's.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  He would sometimes mount his horse, as if bound to St. Michael's, a distance of seven miles, and in half an hour afterwards you would see him coiled up in the corner of the wood-fence, watching every motion of the slaves.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of her death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Mr. Ruggles was then very deeply engaged in the memorable Darg case, as well as attending to a number of other fugitive slaves, devising ways and means for their successful escape; and, though watched and hemmed in on almost every side, he seemed to be more than a match for his enemies.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI