It could withstand a regular siege by a well-provided army for months; and as to surprise, it is out of the question, for I hear that the utmost vigilance is unceasingly maintained.
Somewhere in a corridor a distant bell tinkled urgently, and with devoted vigilance the young man pricked up his ears at the sound.
The vigilance of the police—and the severity of the magistrates.
But it is neither easy to obtain the instruments of self-destruction nor to elude the vigilance of their guard.
Its admission was probably checked by the increased vigilance at the custom houses, the necessity for which was urged by Mr. Addison, when Secretary of State, in 1717.
The boy was presently arrested, and a clever plot was laid to nab the old man his master, but Price by his vigilance outwitted the police.
The vigilance of the Newgate officials assisted by the city police, completely frustrated this plot.
So great was Don Pedro's vigilancethat he was not wanting in the least duty with example and encouragement.
Meanwhile Cachil Tulo dies, and the vigilance required in watching the Chinese and Japanese in the Philippines renders it impossible to send the expedition to Ternate.
This dowry, if one may call it so, represented to the parents an indemnity for the care and vigilance that they had exercised in their daughter's education.
This indiscretion redoubled the vigilance of the watch put upon the rebels.
At times he emerged from his dark recess, to mingle for awhile in the hours of night with his friends, when he was protected by the vigilance and affection of his clansmen, unwearied in their work of duty.
The stocks fell, but owing to the vigilance of the Ministry, information was obtained of the whole scheme of the invasion, in a manner which to this day has never been satisfactorily explained.
In central and southern Alabama the citizens resolved themselves into vigilance committees and hanged horse thieves and other outlaws who were raiding the country, some of them disguised in the uniforms of Federal soldiers.
In Hale County a vigilance committee was formed to protect the women and children in a section of the black country where there were few white men, most having been killed in the war.
The next night--it was the night of the murder--he came to the theatre and warned me against trying to elude his vigilance by flight.
But the fresh breeze would not be denied and, foiled by the nurse's vigilance of its intents against the patient, it revenged itself by blowing havoc among the soft brown curls which peeped out from under the girl's hat.
The adulteration of guano is carried on to a very large extent; and though perhaps not quite so extensively now as it was some years since, it is only kept in check by the utmost vigilance on the part of the purchaser.
Thither, then, as they pursued their course, the Squire expressed his surprise that a final stop was not put to scenes such as they had just witnessed, and all such places of nefarious rendezvous, abolished by the vigilance of the police.
Behave handsome, and I'll put you in possession of a gun that shall bring the game down in spite of locks, bolts and bars, or even the vigilance of the eyes of Argus himself.
He thinks his game all safe, but she has sometimes escaped the vigilance of her gaoler, and has been seen at places distant from home.
Mugambi took the matter less to heart, for he had not the slightest doubt but that during the course of the journey he would find ample opportunity to elude the vigilance of his guards and make good his escape.
No spoor, however faint, could elude the keen vigilance of his senses.
His cunning and vigilance were helpless, and he was compelled to realise that nothing was left to him but patience and watchfulness.
The exclusive demands on her vigilance by this morbid sensitiveness naturally engendered an abstraction from the conversation of the company, which was particularly noticeable, in contrast to her customary mood.
A man calling himself Alfred Homer, answering to the above description, came to the Vigilance Committee in June, 1856.
But we wished half of that sum to be laid out (as on a previous occasion), at thy own discretion, irrespective of the Vigilance Committee.
A few days after his younger companion had passed on North, Romulus was brought by a pitying stranger to the Vigilance Committee, in a most shocking condition.
Jones, and £2 as formerly, to be handed to the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee.
Bagnal, a clever young man who sincerely sympathized with the slave, having a wife in slavery himself; and by him she was safely delivered into the hands of the Vigilance Committee.
Further light about this exciting contest, may be gathered from a colored conductor on the Road, in Delaware, who wrote as follows to a member of the Vigilance Committee at Philadelphia.
I find so much vigilance at the depot, that I would not deem it safe, though, in any kind of carriage they might leave in safety at any time.
About the twenty-ninth of January, 1855, Sheridan arrived from the Old Dominion and a life of bondage, and was welcomed cordially by the Vigilance Committee.
Jones, for fugitives; £2 for Philadelphia Vigilance Committee, for fugitives.
When he linked up with Evans, his superior in years and cunning, he had several times sought revenge against Ralph, and but for the vigilance and courage of the young engineer his life might have paid the forfeit.
There was a call for extra vigilance and close attention to routine.
There was nothing for it, however, but to exercise patience, vigilance and courage.
There is none demanding more untiring vigilance on the part of the daily superintendent, or requiring so much ability and interest in the work.
Yet, with all this care, it was often found impossible to elude the vigilance of informers.
When the King had thus laid asleep the vigilance of those whom he most feared, he dissolved the Parliament.
The pursuers redoubled their vigilance and activity.
Even Tom had been much delighted with the tale, and his vigilance had abated in proportion.
Mrs. Groome had been intensely interested, for this upheaval reminded her of personal episodes in the life of her husband and father, the latter having been a member of the vigilance committees of the fifties.
While the vigilance of the duke of Bedford was employed in gaining or confirming these allies, whose vicinity rendered them so important, he did not overlook the state of more remote countries.
The parliaments in this reign, instead of relaxing their vigilance against the usurpations of the court of Rome, endeavored to enforce the former statutes enacted for that purpose.
But, like men in that region, where eternal vigilance was the price of safety, his intuition was developed to a high degree.
He dared not relax hisvigilance for a split second.
Matters progressed very well, and when we had travelled some three hundred miles eastwardly, thinking we were out of range of any predatory bands, as we had seen no sign of any living thing, we relaxed our vigilance somewhat.
The early morning seemed to be their favourite hour, when sleep oppresses most heavily; and then it was that the utmost vigilance was demanded.
Completely isolated, and beyond support or even communication, in the midst of many thousands of Indians, the utmost vigilance was maintained.
This proved that, although we had been unable to discover any signs of Indians, they had been lurking around us all the time, and this fact warned us to exercise the utmost vigilance in guarding our persons.
Every one was under the constantvigilance of his eagle eye.
Crime had increased considerably in San Francisco, and the Vigilance Committee had again been organized.
