All 13 Uses of
vigilant
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- …those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.†
Chpt 1-2
- "Well," said the marquise, "it seems probable that, by the aid of the Holy Alliance, we shall be rid of Napoleon; and we must trust to the vigilance of M. de Villefort to purify Marseilles of his partisans.†
Chpt 5-6
- For the last ten months my ministers have redoubled their vigilance, in order to watch the shore of the Mediterranean.†
Chpt 9-10 *
- Villefort leaned on the back of an arm-chair, for as the minister of police went on speaking he felt his legs bend under him; but when he learned that the unknown had escaped the vigilance of the agent who followed him, he breathed again.†
Chpt 11-12
- Why didn't they search more vigilantly? they would have found"— "They have not found; but they are on the track."†
Chpt 11-12
- This door was a mockery to the concierge, from whose vigilance and jurisdiction it was free, and, like that famous portal in the "Arabian Nights," opening at the "Sesame" of Ali Baba, it was wont to swing backward at a cabalistic word or a concerted tap from without from the sweetest voices or whitest fingers in the world.†
Chpt 39-40
- The most perfect tranquillity was restored, and the vigilance of the custom-house officers was redoubled, and their strictness was increased at this time, in consequence of the fair at Beaucaire.†
Chpt 43-44
- ] The king, Don Carlos, has escaped the vigilance of his guardians at Bourges, and has returned to Spain by the Catalonian frontier.†
Chpt 61-62
- Villefort left her to the care of the women, while old Barrois ran, half-scared, to his master; for nothing frightens old people so much as when death relaxes its vigilance over them for a moment in order to strike some other old person.†
Chpt 71-72
- , or we should not take so much care to avoid the vigilance of the police.†
Chpt 75-76
- But, sir, you spoke of vigilance and protection.†
Chpt 99-100
- "Mercedes," said the count, "I do not say it to blame you, but you made an unnecessary sacrifice in relinquishing the whole of the fortune amassed by M. de Morcerf; half of it at least by right belonged to you, in virtue of your vigilance and economy."†
Chpt 111-112
- Oh, no, sir, it was expressly forbidden; but they eluded the vigilance of the guards, and made a passage from one dungeon to the other.†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(vigilant) carefully observant or attentive -- often to possible danger