" She was a thin, middle-aged person with a colourless face, prominent teeth, most of which she showed when she laughed, and cold, watchful grey eyes—colder even than Aunt Ruth's.
But Peter Rabbit was just as watchful as ever.
In fact he was more watchful than ever, for now he was watching for Mrs.
Instantly Whitefoot was alert and watchful.
For a few moments they sat on the water, a picture of watchful suspicion.
He rested, but all the time he was watchful and alert.
Lightfoot had about decided that the hunter had given up hunting for that day, but he didn't let this keep him from being any the less watchful.
the time was so short, the schemers seemed so watchful, so active, so hostile; the way of access appeared strait as a gully, deep as a chasm—Apollyon straddled across it, breathing flames.
I know not what of harmony pervaded her whole person; and yet her face offered contrast, too: its features were by no means such as are usually seen in conjunction with a complexion of such blended freshness and repose: their outline was stern: her forehead was high but narrow; it expressed capacity and some benevolence, but no expanse; nor did her peaceful yet watchful eye ever know the fire which is kindled in the heart or the softness which flows thence.
As to Paulina, the child was at once happy and mute, busy and watchful.
Did the pale, watchful Barrymore know more than he cared to say?
This letter asked Ursula to meet Kenneth in the beechwood the next afternoon, and so she stole away there when suspicious father and watchful stepmother thought she was spinning in the granary loft.
"Very watchful indeed, my friends," replied Harding; "and I beg you to confine your hunting excursions to the neighborhood of Granite House.
He left home the next morning in that watchful state of mind which turns the most ordinary course of things into pregnant coincidences.
And he clutched passionately the possibility that she might love him; perhaps the feeling would grow, if she could come to associate him with that watchful tenderness which her nature would be so keenly alive to.
"The only point on which I can be confident is that it will be desirable to be very watchful on Mr.
Circumstance was almost sure to be on the side of Rosamond's idea, which had a shaping activity and looked through watchful blue eyes, whereas Lydgate's lay blind and unconcerned as a jelly-fish which gets melted without knowing it.
For the most glutinously indefinite minds enclose some hard grains of habit; and a man has been seen lax about all his own interests except the retention of his snuff-box, concerning which he was watchful, suspicious, and greedy of clutch.
" At about eleven o'clock, however, a few specks of small rain upon the windows caught Catherine's watchful eye, and "Oh!
" The term of "watchful waiting" had not been invented then, but that was practically the policy Valancy's distracted relatives decided to follow.