keep vigil

All through the dark hours he kept his vigil alone.

Inside the church, the hundreds who had kept a vigil here have gone.

And deep in the night, for those who kept vigil with him, there it was.

Dozens of family members and friends have kept a vigil by his bed.

Nobody needed to know he'd been keeping his own vigil for the past few hours.

"Does that guy keep vigil at his window or what?"

But he said soldiers should keep their vigil against possible attacks.

For the next three days we kept vigil at his bed in the private clinic.

The man had been keeping a vigil that night in memory of his love.

Miles kept vigil by the door but began to grow tired.