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  • The vibrant, generous body that he had trained with such vigilance had shrunken until only the bones remained, draped in yellow skin, crawling with parasites.†   (source)
  • As he pedaled through the nights, through isolated landscape now, with the communities far behind and no sign of human habitation around him or ahead, he was constantly vigilant, looking for the next nearest hiding place should the sound of engines come.†   (source)
  • But the population's fear of it and their vigilance did not diminish, so much so that "frozen flying star" became an extremely unlucky phrase in many Trisolaran civilizations.†   (source)
  • What verb would do justice to the sweaty devotion of the engineers, the unflagging vigilance of the brakemen, and the rippling muscles of those who laid the tracks?†   (source)
  • He is determined to tell Gita what he has learned and ask her to be vigilant in the office, to glean any information she can.†   (source)
  • Her protective vigilance for her surviving family had overtaken rationality.†   (source)
  • Despite our vigilance, Dr. Atal, the zoo veterinarian, could tell by the number of animals with digestive disturbances which had been the busy days at the zoo.†   (source)
  • That our lives would have to be spent in a state of constant vigilance, waiting for the next time, waiting to see what horror he would inflict upon himself.†   (source)
  • I was so vigilant that I tasted several pieces.†   (source)
  • Eventually a vigilant and humble neighbor catches on.†   (source)
  • This is why it's an especially important time for vigilance and focus.†   (source)
  • The shades were drawn, and the whirring sound of the machine was like a den I could curl up in, safe from my father's vagaries, Caroline's furies, and Rose's vigilance.†   (source)
  • If a passing Protestant felt inclined to show the statue some small gesture of disrespect, the vigilant nuns would exit their guardhouse on the fly— their black habits flapping with the defiant rancorousness of crows.†   (source)
  • Beside each of them stood a man—some tall and slender, some burly, some average, all of them surrounded by at least three vigilant guards.†   (source)
  • Vigilance and discretion are my duty ....such that spiritual matters can take place here with clarity of mind.†   (source)
  • We're supposed to be extra vigilant, keep an eye out.†   (source)
  • Some vigilant part of my brain had sounded an alarm as I'd hurried past, but there was nothing there, nothing at all.†   (source)
  • Civilians are encouraged to stay vigilant for any possible criminal activity that may occur before and after the event—" They will make an example of me.†   (source)
  • City officials were giving the usual recommendations about having three days' worth of supplies on hand—Zeitoun had always been vigilant about this—and then there was some talk about 110-mile-per-hour winds and storm surges in the Gulf.†   (source)
  • Harvey, my clothes, my book bag, my body, me—the vigilance to my memory made my father see her as Lindsey and not as a tragic combination of his two daughters.†   (source)
  • Rahel, on the other hand, was wide awake, fiercely vigilant and brittle with exhaustion from her battle against Real Life.†   (source)
  • Tastefully done, nestling But vigilant none the less.†   (source)
  • Throughout Illinois and Indiana, I sat swaying and vigilant: too afraid to go to sleep.†   (source)
  • Enrique's aunt Mirian vigilantly watches when Maraa Isabel goes shopping, whom she goes with, how many bags they have when they return.†   (source)
  • It almost did a few times, but it always managed to pull through due to strict sharing of resources, strenuous discipline, and constant vigilance against any further attacks from the Capitol.†   (source)
  • We must be constantly on guard against the Disease; the health of our nation, our people, our families, and our minds depends on constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • Henri comes walking down, vigilant, looking at the classroom doors as he passes them, and behind him, carrying the Loric Chest in his arms, is Mark.†   (source)
  • Eragon was one of those few-not through any particular gift, it seemed to him, but because of persistent vigilance and sharp reflexes.†   (source)
  • Just once, Queen Genevieve would have liked to relax the watchful vigilance she was forced to maintain every hour of every day to ensure Wonderland's safety.†   (source)
  • But we lost our vigilance to the gradual passing of time.†   (source)
  • After-thirty minutes of fruitless vigilance and foolish cowardice, I returned to the campsite and prepared Tuk's body for burial.†   (source)
  • His eyes, though completely still, somehow seemed the most vigilant.†   (source)
  • He feels strangely vigilant, as if, were he to pay close enough attention, some sign of his father might manifest itself, putting a stop to the events of the day.†   (source)
  • March is the force behind "StigmaBusters," an ever-vigilant service of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.†   (source)
  • His vigilance extended even to the design of the fair's official seal.†   (source)
  • Vince had invited me to a party, but of course Grandma and Mama said no. Besides, our famous shadows, Mutt and Jeff, were parked across the street, faithful as hound dogs in their vigilance.†   (source)
  • Long before his newlywed impatience had died down, Esteban Trueba was forced to return to Tres Marias, where he had not set foot for more than a year and where, despite the vigilance of Pedro Segundo Garcia, its owner's absence was sorely felt.†   (source)
  • Over and over during training, we were told never to be complacent, reminded constantly of the sheer cunning and unpredictability of our terrorist enemy, of the necessity for total vigilance at all times, of the endless need to watch out for our teammates.†   (source)
  • Old Gray Eyes was on the lookout for threats, being her usual vigilant, no-fun, all-business self.†   (source)
  • The patient died in four days, choked by a grainy white vomit, but in the following weeks no other case was discovered despite constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • I told myself Patch would take care of Dabria and that I had nothing to worry about, but it didn't hurt to be vigilant.†   (source)
  • Vigilance might be their one line of defense.†   (source)
  • The way things were at Thurmond ...the camp controllers were so vigilant about making sure that we were terrified of getting caught using our abilities, and we were made to understand from the beginning that what we were, and what we could do, was dangerous and unnatural.†   (source)
  • One has to be vigilant and firm.†   (source)
  • "You're not nearly as vigilant as you used to be," Amar says from behind me.†   (source)
  • The door seal was rotten and the heat dial loose so that cooking required a blend of guesswork, vigilance and luck.†   (source)
  • Even though instructors never allowed students to slack off, during third phase they were particularly vigilant because of the use of explosives and live ammunition.†   (source)
  • She wanted us to always know that her eyes were on us, and no doctoring would distract her from that vigilance.†   (source)
  • The constant job changing and moves had kept her vigilant, and it was there, only four days after she started, that she'd rounded the corner on her way to work and saw a car that seemed somehow out of place.†   (source)
  • We pass the ever-vigilant Ezra and head for our separate tables.†   (source)
  • Generals Heath and Sullivan personally inspected the lines to verify the vigilance of the guards on duty.†   (source)
  • When I tell her things she listens with a high clear alertness, so vigilant and still, and she seems to know what I'm going to say before I say it.†   (source)
  • Dunbar was waiting vigilantly, ready to pounce.†   (source)
  • The St. Pete Times, not being the local paper, did not have to be so vigilant.†   (source)
  • The fact that the door opened without a creak told Quinn the landlords were vigilant in the maintenance department.†   (source)
  • At this hour, the vigilant masses outside the prison were tucked into their sleeping bags and tents, underneath the artificial day created by the enormous spotlights that flooded the front of the building.†   (source)
  • Alas, their vigilance failed.†   (source)
  • Moody was ever vigilant, paranoid about my every action.†   (source)
  • Four men alone would be watched vigilantly.†   (source)
  • He finally broke free of the morning traffic near Vallejo and maintained a vigilant sixty on the speedometer as he headed east.†   (source)
  • Three years (plus) in tight living quarters required a constant reassessment of priorities and attitudes, along with a vigilance against edginess.†   (source)
  • Even in the vault, the Secret Service maintains its vigilance by monitoring her on closed-circuit television.†   (source)
  • Lock the doors and stay vigilant until they forget about us:' "They're going to forget about us?"†   (source)
  • 'We were all at fault,' said Elrond, 'and but for your vigilance the Darkness, maybe, would already be upon us.†   (source)
  • Through all the fear and hardship Campion remained steady and vigilant, holding the survivors together, thinking ahead and encouraging the exhausted to keep going.†   (source)
  • The temptation to ignore the page, or even to rip it from the book and burn in it the flickering light of the candle, overwhelmed Vlad, but he remained vigilant and reread the passage so that he would know exactly what he was doing the next time he and Henry had a moment alone.†   (source)
  • When overseeing the interests of Korphe, however, Haji Ali rarely relaxed his vigilance.†   (source)
  • It must be tended with vigilance, else it dies out.†   (source)
  • It was only by their wits and the vigilance of heaven that they weren't killed on several occasions during their ordeal.†   (source)
  • As acts of sabotage mounted, so did the government's vigilance.†   (source)
  • They were ever vigilant, but always with their eyes toward the forest.†   (source)
  • For her father, conquering the microbios required unflagging vigilance.†   (source)
  • They didn't actually suggest killing all Tutsis, but the eighth commandment declared, "The Hutu should stop having mercy on the Tutsi," and the ninth read, in part, "The Hutu must be firm and vigilant against their common Tutsi enemy."†   (source)
  • When he had grasped the implications of his laughter, he had known that he was now condemned to constant vigilance against himself.†   (source)
  • " Now I believe in platitudes, when they serve, especially that battered and hard-worn antique, "Eternal vigilance is the pride of liberty.†   (source)
  • But now Mama and Aunt watched over us with great vigilance.†   (source)
  • The men of the family had to be vigilant.†   (source)
  • You have not kept constant vigilance for impurity.†   (source)
  • Across the valley in the magical tower, Errtu crouched in a shadowy corner of Kessell's harem room keeping its ever-vigilant guard over the evil wizard at play with his mindless girls.†   (source)
  • The enemy was vigilant and allies jealously guarded their own intelligence fiefdoms.†   (source)
  • His immediate neighbors, though, are loyal, the whole block stays vigilant over Kwang, and they have started hurling garbage and buckets of water at those trying to sneak up the sides and back of the property.†   (source)
  • The vigilant wind had chased the malingering gray clouds over the ridgeline, leaving the sky clear.†   (source)
  • And most vigilantly so.†   (source)
  • Normal vigilance would prevent most tax evasion.†   (source)
  • Such steps took work, took money, took vigilance.†   (source)
  • So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid; but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.†   (source)
  • Chiara cocked a vigilant ear toward the device and listened intently, as if to the footsteps of an intruder.†   (source)
  • No place in the world prides itself more on its vigilance and realism, no place considers itself more qualified to censure any flourish of rhetoric or extravagance of aspiration.†   (source)
  • We were still vigilant and cautious, since the shooting had not slowed down.†   (source)
  • All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.†   (source)
  • Though twenty years older than Abigail, he didn't have a single gray hair on his thin, nervously vigilant head.†   (source)
  • Early in 185o she visited the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.†   (source)
  • It was as if Peters regarded West Berlin as safe ground, where vigilance and security could be relaxed; a mere technical staging post to the East.†   (source)
  • In three or four bounds he reached the ridge of the esker, where he stood facing me in an attitude of tense and threatening vigilance.†   (source)
  • We had our internal enemies too, and we exercised vigilance.†   (source)
  • I feel we must all be vigilant against growing indifferent to people less fortunate ...†   (source)
  • The themes were not new: sacrifice and the bright future; the dignity of the woman of Africa; the need to strengthen the revolution, unpopular though it was with those black men in the towns who dreamed of waking up one day as white men; the need for Africans to be African, to go back without shame to their democratic and socialist ways, to rediscover the virtues of the diet and medicines of their grandfathers and not to go running like children after things in imported tins and bottles; the need for vigilance, work and, above all, discipline.†   (source)
  • That perhaps was why he watched death with such unrelaxing vigilance; that certainly was why he feared it with a terror beyond all 'civilized' comprehension.†   (source)
  • The daily summer rains could only increase her vigilance and her already excessive energy.†   (source)
  • He thought of the vigilant measures the Board of Governors was forced to take to prevent Kingston Hospital from becoming another Spaceland.†   (source)
  • I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.   (source)
  • Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free.   (source)
  • Not a single indication of the future intentions of his hosts, however, escaped his vigilant eyes.   (source)
    vigilant = carefully observant
  • " 'C-constant vigilance,' " said Hermione, mopping her eyes.†   (source)
  • But Wonderland's recovery would require vigilance.†   (source)
  • To be a step ahead in matters of romance requires constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • She set about on a disguised but implacable vigilance.†   (source)
  • All that evening we continued our vigilance on the couch in front of the television.†   (source)
  • The men of the Columbian Guard stepped up their vigilance.†   (source)
  • In the meantime ....constant vigilance, Potter.†   (source)
  • I ain't gonna fall down on my vigilance this time.†   (source)
  • How dare she occupy the kitchen with such vigilance!†   (source)
  • It was extremely pleasant and so chaste in its way that Ursula ceased her vigilance.†   (source)
  • CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" he roared, and the whole class jumped again.†   (source)
  • bono: Well, look here, since you got to keep up your vigilance ...let me have the bottle.†   (source)
  • CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" he barked, and everyone jumped.†   (source)
  • My vigilance about Ari cranked up a couple notches.†   (source)
  • But all that vigilance didn't do much good.†   (source)
  • Had I depended on your vigilance or wisdom, I would have been murdered this very night.†   (source)
  • 'And yet its vigilance can no longer keep back the Nine,' said Galdor.†   (source)
  • Surely they could find a good life that did not include weapons and constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • He lacked all capacity for sustained worry or the distraught vigilance that comes from paranoia.†   (source)
  • They will not escape the vigilance of the people whose blood they seek to sell!†   (source)
  • This served as the office for the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.†   (source)
  • Again and again Harriet went back to the office of the Vigilance Committee.†   (source)
  • She started talking about William Still and the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.†   (source)
  • The cost of such vigilance was that Du Vrangr Gata ended up spying on the Varden as much as on their enemies, a fact that Nasuada made sure to conceal from the bulk of her followers, for it would only sow hatred, distrust, and dissent.†   (source)
  • But she did not leave off her vigilance until the apprenticeship was over and the Italian left Macondo.†   (source)
  • I concentrated on a rack of blouses, trying to relax the vigilance that kept asserting itself— attention to what sizes she was looking at, what sort of cut she was attracted to; whatever dress she chose to try on first, I wanted it to be flattering.†   (source)
  • Without her vigilance, they neglected their duties and began to spend their time in an orgy of siestas and gossip, while the plants went dry for lack of watering and spiders filled the dusty corners of the house.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza would see them arrive in the family carriage, and then he would see Dr. Juvenal Urbino leave for his routine house calls, but in almost a year of vigilance he never even caught the glimpse he so desired.†   (source)
  • He loved Lindsey and Grandma Lynn and Samuel and Hal, but my father kept him stepping lightly, son gingerly monitoring father every morning and every evening as if, without such vigilance, he would lose him.†   (source)
  • They included: "Institute increased security procedures (e. g. identification checks) at evacuation centers and shelters"; "Advise the first responder community, telecommunications personnel, and power restoration personnel to increase identification procedures to prevent imposters from gaining unauthorized access to targets"; and "Increase patrols and vigilance of staff at key transportation and evacuation points (for instance, bridges and tunnels), including watching for unattended vehicles at these locations."†   (source)
  • There were times when neither of them guided the horses, and it was only Saphira's vigilance that kept them on course.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he was not even aware of how much he had relaxed his vigilance, distracted as he was by the flattering words of the in-laws who after so many years had put aside their tribal prejudices and welcomed him with open arms as one of their own.†   (source)
  • Only the vigilance and care of Rebeca kept him from being dragged off by his imagination into a state of perpetual delirium from which he would not recover.†   (source)
  • 'Constant vigilance!'†   (source)
  • But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.†   (source)
  • Constant vigilance.†   (source)
  • Astaroth is here, Director Richter—Rowan's efforts and vigilance failed us all and the very heavens point to the Demon's return.†   (source)
  • Still, to his relief, she left him to his own devices after that, though she continued to watch him with unceasing vigilance.†   (source)
  • In his four years there, he relaxed his vigilance once and nearly died as a result, but he never let it happen again.†   (source)
  • And I knew even then as a boy of twelve how I should always give myself over to its vigilance, entrusting to its care everything I could know or ever hope for.†   (source)
  • just before midnight, his vigilance was rewarded when he suddenly noticed a few stars overhead and shouted to the others to look.†   (source)
  • At times, she struck Travis as being like a prosecutor trying to convict someone of a crime, and though she ruffled the feathers of a few directors, Travis was grateful for her vigilance.†   (source)
  • Pursuers from Moria may have escaped the vigilance of Lorien, or they may have avoided that land and come to Isengard by other paths.†   (source)
  • I do not think it is foolish pride, Dame Mala, to remind you that the survival of your sisterhood has been secured by the very efforts and vigilance you critique.†   (source)
  • In the daytime I could feel him near me, sense not so much his friendship but his vigilance and guidance, the veil of his cover.†   (source)
  • "The greatest vigilance is had to prevent a surprise," he wrote, "which we have to fear more than anything."†   (source)
  • It was wearing to view everyone with suspicion, to maintain constant vigilance even among one's friends.†   (source)
  • They were quite valuable, after all, to the wellbeing and morale of the camp, and vigilance would be in order.†   (source)
  • It was a world of Pete Gandys out there, blind and lazy morons who left us vulnerable to terrorists, not only with their stupidity, but with their lack of vigilance, their fat, contented ignorance.†   (source)
  • The reason for their vigilance was no mystery: every one of their fights had chipped away at their complacency, leaving behind nothing but raw nerves that twitched at the slightest touch.†   (source)
  • Now the watch-towers, which had fallen into decay, were repaired, and filled with arms, and garrisoned with ceaseless vigilance.†   (source)
  • It was your responsibility to serve your fellow nobles with vigilance, but you chose instead to serve your greed.†   (source)
  • Even if we have learned to be rightly and deeply fearful of elevating the cultural forms and conservatisms of any nation into normative and exclusivist systems, even if we have terrible proof that pride in an ethnic and religious heritage can quickly degrade into the fascistic, our vigilance on that score should not displace our love and trust in the good of the indigenous per se.†   (source)
  • Then you hear the melody again, one more time, the familiar march from Prokofiev, not the mock-heroic organ but full orchestra now, and the pitch is very different, forget the amusing radio reminiscence, it is all vigilance and suppression, the FBI in peace and war and day and night, your own white-collar cohort of the law.†   (source)
  • Their vigilance failed, and others came, too—other things from dying worlds with nothing left to feed them.†   (source)
  • I would have gladly endured a fit of rage, or a frosty harangue of disappointment, and yet it seemed she was making efforts to assure the clearness of my conscience, despite the unavoidable fact of my momentary carelessness and lack of vigilance, which I didn't attempt to diminish when I first phoned with the news.†   (source)
  • Washington would hold Sullivan largely to blame, for too little vigilance at the Jamaica Pass, thus implying that in his view Greene would never have allowed a British surprise to succeed there.†   (source)
  • In my weaker moments, I imagine the client as a vastly wealthy voyeur, a decrepit, shut-away xenophobe who keeps a national vigilance on eminent agitators and ethnics.†   (source)
  • Double vigilance.†   (source)
  • In the dimness of its dreary day few things even in that land of vigilance could have espied them, save from close at hand.†   (source)
  • The female was still invisible, and the male had so far relaxed his attitude of vigilance as to lie down on the crest of the esker.†   (source)
  • We received no ironic messages in our mail slots nor any menacing communiques slipped beneath the door to our room, and after a week of vigilance we concluded that our silence had appeased The Ten.†   (source)
  • There is no crime more serious in our penal code, none which exposes our state to greater danger, nor demands more vigilance of our Party organs.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be carved out of huge blocks of stone, immovable, and yet they were aware: some dreadful spirit of evil vigilance abode in them.†   (source)
  • But if we continue to uphold our standards, the highest standards of any military college in the world, I cannot help but think that our system is growing stronger and that our vigilance will be rewarded.†   (source)
  • He sprang past them; but even as he did so, thrusting the phial back into his bosom, he was aware, as plainly as if a bar of steel had snapped to behind him, that their vigilance was renewed.†   (source)
  • Though if an enemy were so rash as to try to enter that land secretly, then it was also a last unsleeping guard against any that might pass the vigilance of Morgul and of Shelob.†   (source)
  • When the search for him had ended, the Boston Vigilance Committee sent him on to Canada via the Underground Railroad.†   (source)
  • The plain to their right was dim and smoky, and they could see there neither camps nor troops moving; but all that region was under the vigilance of the forts of Carach Angren.†   (source)
  • They arrived safely at the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee on the 29th of December, late at night.†   (source)
  • But as with Narchost and Carchost, the Towers of the Teeth, so here too the vigilance had failed, and treachery had yielded up the Tower to the Lord of the Ringwraiths, and now for long years it had been held by evil things.†   (source)
  • When she reached Philadelphia with her passengers, she took them straight to the office of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.†   (source)
  • He would, however, rely on the ingenuity of the Vigilance Committee to take care of the matter after the merchandise reached Baltimore.†   (source)
  • The Reverend Theodore Parker, who when a boy bought a Latin dictionary with the first money he ever earned, was chairman of the Executive Committee of the Boston Vigilance Committee.†   (source)
  • The second trip, which took place in May, is mentioned in a letter that Thomas Garrett wrote to J. Miller McKim and William Still of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee: Wilmington, 5 mo.†   (source)
  • 'We urge the magical population to remain vigilant.†   (source)
  • Even in times of peace, the Spirit Chief was vigilant in protecting his people.†   (source)
  • The old revolving eye, ever-turning, ever-vigilant.†   (source)
  • My father has been vigilant about secrecy and security.†   (source)
  • Not that there's anything to do but be vigilant and take any warning signs seriously.†   (source)
  • I imagine he became more vigilant after Finnick aired his crimes.†   (source)
  • Holly scaled the great staircase, ever vigilant for the giant manservant.†   (source)
  • He was nearing the end of his shift, and yet he was still vigilant.†   (source)
  • The clergy vigilantly refilled the lamps with sacred oils such that no lamp ever burned out.†   (source)
  • I've been assured that the ambassador comes in good faith, but we will be vigilant.†   (source)
  • I looked up and Chloe had her eye on me, vigilant as ever.†   (source)
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