Vigilance

Examples

• Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• She was vexed to see that, in spite of so many years of vigilance, she had blundered twice within five minutes. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A robbery of a daring and aggravated nature occasioned a vigilance of pursuit, and a strictness of search, they had not calculated on. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• But in this situation, the superior vigilance and attention of a private adventurer would, in all probability, soon make them weary of the trade. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Tippins, letting down the window, playfully extols the vigilance of her cavalier in being in waiting there to hand her out. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But Wemmick was equally untiring and gentle in his vigilance, and the Aged read on, quite unconscious of his many rescues. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I adverted to what Adrian had already done--I promised the same vigilance in furthering all his views. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The cures he prescribed were vigorous government interference, strict magisterial vigilance; when necessary, prompt military coercion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To follow the pace of living requires enormous vigilance and sympathy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the various agitations of vigilance committees and alliances for the suppression of the traffic they profess to see continued a work which the abolitionists began. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A vague bent to mischief, an aimless malevolence, made constant vigilance indispensable. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But all the while another self was sharpening her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• When the quantity of gold and silver imported into any country exceeds the effectual demand, no vigilance of government can prevent their exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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