Again he quoted I know not what authors and passages, and while rolling out their sweet and sounding lines (the classic tones fell musically from his lips—for he had a good voice—remarkable for compass, modulation, and matchless expression), he would fix on me a vigilant, piercing, and often malicious eye.
For what he waited, I do not know, nor for what he watched; but the peculiarity of his manner, his expectant, vigilant, absorbed, eager look, never wore off: it rather intensified.
She was solicitous about her family, vigilant for their interests and physical well-being; but she never seemed to know the wish to take her little children upon her lap, to press their rosy lips with her own, to gather them in a genial embrace, to shower on them softly the benignant caress, the loving word.
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.
This is not much connected with Miss Isabella's affair: except that it urged me to resolve further on mounting vigilant guard, and doing my utmost to check the spread of such bad influence at the Grange: even though I should wake a domestic storm, by thwarting Mrs.
"The dogs do right to be vigilant.
" The reporter and the lad secured a good store of the precious plant, and then returned to Granite House, where they smuggled it in with as much precaution as if Pencroft had been the most vigilant and severe of custom-house officers.
Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
Upon which the man congratulated them in a great flow of polite words, not one of which they understood, on their magnificent Italian; for this was Domenico, the vigilant and accomplished gardener of San Salvatore, the prop and stay of the establishment, the resourceful, the gifted, the eloquent, the courteous, the intelligent Domenico.
Establish New Rules Certain habits got you into the mess of having an overly cluttered home and they will take you right back there unless you're vigilant.
"Now this could also mean that if we continue to be vigilant and use these measures, we could have a mild flu season this year," he imparted.
I can smell the adrenaline your body releases when you're scared, and I'm also more vigilant anytime someone in the household is missing.
Tatum's unflappable demeanor has been cultivated by two vigilant parents, both college athletes, who raised Jayson separately but who were united in molding their son's future.
We lived near a busy road and we were super vigilant at always child-proofing the front door - without exception.
A wolf wanted to eat the sheep, but he was afraid of the vigilant shepherd and his dogs.
The wolf in sheep's clothing A wolf wanted to eat the sheep, but he was afraid of the vigilant shepherd and his dogs.
Tweak those sentences—and stay vigilant for those words in your speech.
But he's more vigilant when he's spending the entire day outside.
The home is spotless, (everything seems to remain new), and the cooking excellent, she is vigilant and efficient—in fact she is everything that can make a home run like a well regulated machine.
The people who seem most vigilant about pursuing this always have a story about being young and in the presence of a sibling or a friend who had light eyes and the friend is being told how beautiful their eyes are, and it sticks with them.
