1 The words were still in the mouth of the scout, when the leader of the party, whose approaching footsteps had caught the vigilant ear of the Indian, came openly into view.
2 Heyward, who watched his movements with a vigilant eye, carelessly extricated one of his feet from the stirrup, while he passed a hand toward the bear-skin covering of his holsters.
3 But the watchfulness of these vigilant protectors neither tired nor slumbered.
4 But the wary and vigilant leader of the Hurons was not so easily disconcerted.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 5 As he approached the buildings, his steps become more deliberate, and his vigilant eye suffered no sign, whether friendly or hostile, to escape him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 6 Not a single indication of the future intentions of his hosts, however, escaped his vigilant eyes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 28 7 The little word seemed to have turned a rapier point of his sensitiveness against this courteous and vigilant foe.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 8 Rochefort and d'Artagnan coolly greeted each other with their lips; but the cardinal was there, observing them with his vigilant eye.
9 She was vexed to see that, in spite of so many years of vigilance, she had blundered twice within five minutes.
10 But all the while another self was sharpening her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured.
11 Finery laid off is as unappetizing as the remains of a feast, and it occurred to Lily that, at home, her maid's vigilance had always spared her the sight of such incongruities.
12 This vigilance was not long without reward.
13 This improvement upon the original usage was introduced by no less a man than Stubb, in order to afford the imperilled harpooneer the strongest possible guarantee for the faithfulness and vigilance of his monkey-rope holder.
14 He ate and drank with an appetite that no sense of danger could disturb, but his vigilance seemed never to desert him.
15 But his aim was interrupted by the vigilance of his enemies, whose rifles instantaneously bore on any part of his person that was left exposed.