Evan always on the alertfor mischief, quietly followed.
Every eye wasalert for the first sign of a paper trail.
He splashed into the water with a great howl, but alert Dave Darrin hauled in just enough of the rope.
Even against the big, alert fellows from Cobber that fake kick was good for eight yards.
What poet has been so alert to recognize the master-spirits of his own time and his father's?
He was a marvellously alert man, an unusually good linguist, and a cosmopolitan to his finger-tips.
He had long been filled with strong suspicions, and these suspicions had been confirmed both by Enid's statements and his own observations; therefore he was already alert and watchful.
At such seasons they are alert for appropriating building materials that may have been fetched to hand by other birds; and they have already abstracted a piece of candle-wick from the bottom of my post-office.
Instantly the mighty watcher on the summit is alert and tense; and as the great snowy image of the swan floats by, in mid-air and midway of the broad expanse of water, he meets it.
Perhaps he should find a guiding light in some window on the other side of the house; perhaps a servant remained alert for his knock on the door.
On his wrist a raven perched; on his shoulder crouched a squirrel, with tail alert for flight; two rabbits sat upright at his feet; a lamb huddled against his knee on one side and a goat on the other.
She looked forward happily to riding forth some day with the falcon perched on her small gloved fist, alert for flight.
He felt morealert after gratifying his hunger in the well-stocked pantry.
Yet that did not seem quite possible, for he had been particularly alert against that very thing.
The Phantom, alert against the slightest threatening move on the other's part, smiled faintly.
He groped forward cautiously, tightly clutching his pistol, infinitely alert against the slightest sign or sound of danger.
Then suddenly alert and tense once more, he put the electric flash light back into his pocket and snatched up his automatic.
Alert and at the prow Of life's broad deck To seize the passing moment big with fate From opportunity's extended hand.
Every man knew that there existed a body of men in the Northern States who were ready to second any insurrectionary movement of the blacks; and that these men would be on the alert to turn these discussions to their advantage.
I seem to see a light type of ironclad, armoured thickly only over its engines and magazines, murderously equipped, and with a ram--as alert and deadly as a striking snake.
He would defend his action by saying that an alarm of any kind keeps men alert and is good for discipline.
The Canadian sister, alert and competent, secures a seat on the rail of a disused gangway and plants two neat feet on the rail opposite.
I was challenged again and again by sentries, alert and I think occasionally jumpy.
He studied his work in all its aspects and was alert in finding ways of saving time, materials, energy, and money.
Interested in facts, keenly observant, quick in thought, alert and positive in his mental activities.
While I am on my guard and as alert as I know how to be against one of the things I've been told not to do, I am just as sure as sunshine to go and do some other thing which is against the rules.
Being a man of keen, alertmind and quick intelligence, he had quickly grasped the fundamentals of the heating business.
He is always on the alert for anything which may contribute to his enjoyment.
Energetic and alert mentally, but rather disinclined to physical effort.
And I shall put Blueskin on the alert against the designs of a traitor," rejoined Smith, in a tone that sounded like a menace.
They werealert to rise, scattering all dust, victors over Time and outrageous Fortune.
He who could pass spring on to spring, summer on to summer, in the company of beasts so sly and silent, so alert and fleet as these hounds of his, could not be quite the amiable prince he feigned to be.
But back of his ugly, half-witted skull lay an alert brain, what there was of it.
They were alert and active, anxious that the work should go well, and fiercely irritable with whatever, by delay or confusion, retarded that work.
Buck hurried on, swiftly and stealthily, every nerve straining and tense, alert to the multitudinous details which told a story--all but the end.
He had a fresh complexion and a pair of dark, amused, alert eyes.
He was not so young on a closer inspection as his trim alert figure had seemed to indicate.
It was not merely that she seemed alert and active, wholly absorbed in the things about her, but more in the marvellous content which filled her.
The young man's blue eyes, all alert and curious at the mention of Marcella's name, ran over the girl's face and form.
In the home and among their friends the Indians show fun, happy give-and-take, and warm, alert interest in the life about them.
Bright eyes and alert faces testified to her power to quicken thought and to create an appetite for knowledge.
The old blighting sensitiveness made her school-days restless and unhappy in spite of her alert mind and many interests.
Ella, alert and brisk, took care of herself as effectually as did Rosa Willis, on the opposite side of the table.
Her horse paced off briskly, and a less alert nature than Daphne Jane's would have fancied her soon far on her way.
Though already well hidden he crouched behind a log, and upon the piece of road and every shadowy cover of possible approach threw forward an alert scrutiny supported by the whole force of his shrewdest conjectures.
