They sat before the fire, alertly wakeful, in the shadow of impending danger until the first pale hint of dawn.
His morning hurricane of passion had left him alertly cool and self-possessed--but there was battle-light in his eyes.
In less than a minute he was on his feet again and looking alertly about him.
His brain was far too alertly engaged with troubled thoughts of Phil Abingdon to be susceptible to the influence of those delicate etheric waves which he had come to recognize as the note of danger.
For certainly, of all the difficulties which, in his two years' career, he had alertly fought and conquered, none had ever confronted him of nature so delicate.
They were so regular, so oblong, so respectable; they stood so gapingly, so alertly open, that suddenly a little shudder thrilled up along his spine.
He rose alertly and peered within the darkened doorway.
He sprang alertly from his chair and moved to the door which he held open.
But presently he would be seated again, alertly upright, his eyes on the door, for the earliest glimpse of the face that he loved.
But despite this unwonted vigil the old bark-mill was early astir, and he wentalertly about his work.
He was, it is true, a learned man; but science has no specific for sudden fright, and he jumped as ignorantly as if he did not know the difficult name of any of the muscles that so alertlyexercised themselves on this occasion.
But it sufficed for an excuse, and he worked away, whistling cheerily, warily observant of the dark and silent façade of the old palace and alertlyinterested in the little groups his occupation transiently attracted.
He had in fact on this occasion disposed alertly enough of the subject of Mr. Verver's approbation.
The priest again alertly stepped back and returned with a chicken, snapping the hen's head off as if cut with a scissors.
He turned round quickly and walked alertly in the direction where white people live, to be made happy by presents sent to them by friends living in distant lands.
Constance sat up alertly and watched the people crowding past.
They made their adieus and ponderously descended, their departure accelerated by Tony who had become of a sudden alertly helpful.
Gustavo, who for the last hour and a half had been alertly watchful of four entrances at once, pounced upon him and drew him to a corner.
A young soldier hard by faced about alertly and gave nimble chase; the cry of "Puss!
IX A FANCY SHOT THE things that had attracted Tom’s attention were so trifling in themselves that only a person alertly observing would have noticed them at all.
After a bit one of the natives, seeing Hanlon merely sitting there instead of being alertly on guard close to them, dropped its shovel and turned away from its work.
It did, however, appear to be keeping its eyes alertly on that dread shock-rod hanging loosely in Hanlon's hand.
There were four faces now alertly watching Peter Tortue, and the fourth was mine.
These three took no particular interest in the Royal Fortune, but they had every interest in the doings of Cullen Mayle, and they now alertly followed all that Tortue said.
Polemen balanced themselvesalertly in the bow, their long sticks poised to deflect their course from any threatening rocks.
He was alertly conscious again, but his head ached, and he felt reluctant, even unable, to open his eyes.
All Thoracics use their hands, arms, wrists, limbs and feet alertly and energetically.
The very thought that he might fall asleep so filled him with fright that he became alertly awake.
A stocky figure stepped alertly out from behind a tree.
Apparently, it does not occur to our friends that the mind that functions alertly along any one line, can be developed to function alertly along many lines.
A prison population is never of one mind, nor of the same clay, save only for a common criminal camaraderie, ever alertly expressed to take advantage of those who think criminologically in single numbers.
Without turning his head, he sat alertlymotionless for several minutes, listening, holding his breath.
The deer had been standing alertly in a shallow draw, and when at least 2 wolves got to within 100 yards, they fled.
The cony sat up suddenly, awake andalertly watching.
They were ever alertly watching the significant movements of their neighbors, for signals of dangers beyond the range of their own senses.
There was a flush on her cheeks and her eyes were still alertly bright.
He noted these things carefully, telling himself that a man should always be alertly sensible of his surroundings; then all at once the nice balancing of detail suddenly gave way.
You will answer He Who Moves Alertly not just as one who has been among the pale eyes.
White Bear had an eerie feeling that He Who Moves Alertly knew what was in his mind.
Then they will let you cross the river to join He Who Moves Alertly in Ioway country.
As the tumult inspired by the Winnebago Prophet quieted down, He Who Moves Alertly looked around the circle of chiefs and braves, his eyes pausing at anyone who had not joined the outcry for war.
Owl Carver said, "He Who Moves Alertly has always been a friend to the long knives, and they treat him as if he was a great chief and give presents to him.
Most of those who agreed with He Who Moves Alertly had stayed away from this council.
Black Hawk and all the other braves of the British Band looked on He Who Moves Alertly as an enemy.
He had a sudden, strong feeling that they should follow He Who Moves Alertly farther into the Ioway country.
No doubt those who accepted He Who Moves Alertlyas their chief have prospered as much as we have suffered.
White Bear could find little wrong with what He Who Moves Alertly said, but he did not like the way it pointed.
Black Hawk had been wrong too many times, and He Who Moves Alertly would do whatever the pale eyes told him to do.
War is loud, and peace is quiet," He Who Moves Alertly began.
He Who Moves Alertly thinks he is the only one who knows the Americans.
He Who Moves Alertly said, "Owl Carver and Black Hawk say the Potawatomi and Winnebago will aid the British Band, and other tribes from farther away.
The young man (her words taunting, malicious, and hateful as they were, not having been without some effect in influencing him in determining on his future course) sprang alertly to the window and gazed with interest on the approaching vessel.
She detected the momentary lighting up of his eye ere he made the spring, and alertly avoided the blow by leaping through the door: he fell forward, and the blade shivered against the stone sides of the tower.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alertly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
