Both Uses of
vigilant
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- 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.†
p. 275.6 *
- At the time, I wasn't sure of the equipment he would have used—maybe those funny little chisels and spreaders, the things he called wedges and feathers; but the tap-tap-tap of metal on stone would have awakened the ever-vigilant nuns.†
p. 408.8
Definition:
carefully observant or attentive -- often to possible danger