All 3 Uses
vigilant
in
The Adventures of Augie March
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- So he was always somewhat in this terror and wouldn't let me have the wheel, who didn't dread this enough to be vigilant.†
Chpt 11
- And I might smell her shoulder and lift up her breast, but it wasn't the same intimacy any more in that riches-cluttered hall partly inventoried by the moon, the old man snuffing upstairs, vigilant whether asleep or not.†
Chpt 12 *
- Even during a nap he seemed to watch, his head backed off, studious, vigilant.†
Chpt 25
Definitions:
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(1)
(vigilant) carefully observant or attentive -- often to possible danger
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)