All 28 Uses of

vigilant

in

The Last of the Mohicans

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.†
Chpt 4

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.†
Chpt 4

How, now, my vigilant sentinel, can see anything of those you call the Iroquois, on the main land!†
Chpt 5

The strong glare of the fire fell full upon his sturdy, weather-beaten countenance and forest attire, lending an air of romantic wildness to the aspect of an individual, who, seen by the sober light of day, would have exhibited the peculiarities of a man remarkable for the strangeness of his dress, the iron-like inflexibility of his frame, and the singular compound of quick, vigilant sagacity, and of exquisite simplicity, that by turns usurped the possession of his muscular features.†
Chpt 6

He ate and drank with an appetite that no sense of danger could disturb, but his vigilance seemed never to desert him.†
Chpt 6

But the watchfulness of these vigilant protectors neither tired nor slumbered.†
Chpt 7

"Have you had a quiet night?" said Heyward; "for myself, I believe sleep has got the better of my vigilance."†
Chpt 7

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.†
Chpt 8

"Go to him, and say that you left them with a message to hasten to their aid," returned Cora, advancing nigher to the scout in her generous ardor; "that the Hurons bear them into the northern wilds, but that by vigilance and speed they may yet be rescued; and if, after all, it should please heaven that his assistance come too late, bear to him," she continued, her voice gradually lowering, until it seemed nearly choked, "the love, the blessings, the final prayers of his daughters, and…†
Chpt 8

There were now a few minutes of fearful stillness, during which Heyward well knew that the savages conducted their search with greater vigilance and method.†
Chpt 9

But the vigilance of the Indians rendered this act of precaution both difficult and dangerous.†
Chpt 10

The young man willingly believed that the Huron deliberated on the most eligible manner of eluding the vigilance of his associates.†
Chpt 11

But the wary and vigilant leader of the Hurons was not so easily disconcerted.†
Chpt 12

Unable longer to foil an enemy so alert and vigilant, he threw his arms about him, and succeeded in pinning the limbs of the other to his side, with an iron grasp, but one that was far too exhausting to himself to continue long.†
Chpt 12

During this display of emotions so natural in their situation, Hawkeye, whose vigilant distrust had satisfied itself that the Hurons, who disfigured the heavenly scene, no longer possessed the power to interrupt its harmony, approached David, and liberated him from the bonds he had, until that moment, endured with the most exemplary patience.†
Chpt 12

"Would not our resting-place have been more retired, my worthy friend," demanded the more vigilant Duncan, perceiving that the scout had already finished his short survey, "had we chosen a spot less known, and one more rarely visited than this?"†
Chpt 13

"If we lay among the white tents of the Sixtieth, and in front of an enemy like the French, I could not ask for a better watchman," returned the scout; "but in the darkness and among the signs of the wilderness your judgment would be like the folly of a child, and your vigilance thrown away.†
Chpt 13

"Nay, Duncan, deny it not," interrupted the smiling Alice, issuing from the shadows of the building into the light of the moon, in all the loveliness of her freshened beauty; "I know you to be a heedless one, when self is the object of your care, and but too vigilant in favor of others.†
Chpt 13

In its front might be seen the scattered sentinels, who held a weary watch against their numerous foes; and within the walls themselves, the travelers looked down upon men still drowsy with a night of vigilance.†
Chpt 14

The Frenchman bit his lip, and fastened his eyes keenly on the other as if to read his thoughts; then, with a readiness peculiar to himself, he continued, as if assenting to the truth of an enumeration which quite doubled his army: "It is a poor compliment to the vigilance of us soldiers, monsieur, that, do what we will, we never can conceal our numbers.†
Chpt 15

"Il est necessaire d'etre vigilant, mon enfant," the other observed, dropping a fold of his cloak, and looking the soldier close in the face as he passed him, still continuing his way toward the British fortification.†
Chpt 17

The man started; his arms rattled heavily as he threw them forward in the lowest and most respectful salute; and when he had again recovered his piece, he turned to walk his post, muttering between his teeth: "Il faut etre vigilant, en verite! je crois que nous avons la, un caporal qui ne dort jamais!"†
Chpt 17

His vigilance, however, seemed exercised in vain; for after a fruitless pause, he whispered to Duncan: "We must give a call to Uncas.†
Chpt 19

It appeared to him as though the foresters had some secret means of intelligence, which had escaped the vigilance of his own faculties.†
Chpt 19

"Danger!" repeated Hawkeye, calmly; "no, not absolutely of danger; for, with vigilant ears and quick eyes, we can manage to keep a few hours ahead of the knaves; or, if we must try the rifle, there are three of us who understand its gifts as well as any you can name on the borders.†
Chpt 20

But the enemy who, by any lucky concurrence of accidents, has found means to elude the vigilance of the scouts, will seldom meet with sentinels nearer home to sound the alarm.†
Chpt 23

As he approached the buildings, his steps become more deliberate, and his vigilant eye suffered no sign, whether friendly or hostile, to escape him.†
Chpt 26

Not a single indication of the future intentions of his hosts, however, escaped his vigilant eyes.
Chpt 28 *

vigilant = carefully observant

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