Vigilant

Examples

• These policemen follow the executive officer's boat from shore to ship and from ship to shore and watch his dark maneuvres with a vigilant eye. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The forewarning of my instinct was but fulfilled, when I discovered her, all cold and vigilant, perched like a white bird on the outside of the bed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• However, Versailles patrols drove them in again; as the vigilant Lecointre had strictly charged them to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Mr. Bucket came out again, exhorting the others to be vigilant, darkened his lantern, and once more took his seat. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Though, to do him justice, he lay awake many an hour, silent and without stirring, unwilling to awaken his kind and vigilant nurse. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Be you vigilant also, Lina. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Nothing is more vigilant and inventive than our passions; and nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman, and Miss Peecher kept him on double duty over Mr Bradley Headstone. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• General Weitzel will keep vigilant watch upon his front, and if found at all practicable to break through at any point, he will do so. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He is always vigilant and always near me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Nothing could be less demonstrative than the friendship of the elder lady, but also nothing could be more vigilant, assiduous, untiring. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• To be vigilant in making themselves respected. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Edited by Denny