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Meanings of argus-eyed in English
Having very keen vision.
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Examples for "watchful"
Examples for "watchful"
1
Be watchful of the air-holes; I think you know the path well.
2
Each of the four watchful men in the narrow apartment breathed softly.
3
Remain on the road at all times and be watchful for highwaymen.
4
In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.
5
The watchful jealousy of the Colchians foresaw and averted the approaching ruin.
1
Clinicians and public health practitioners should remain vigilant for new EVALI cases.
2
Mr Key said while New Zealand was relatively safe, authorities remained vigilant.
3
Today, the industry is more vigilant than ever with regard to education.
4
Andy Wilkinson, from the Environment Agency, said: People need to be vigilant.
5
All of our public health is dependent upon the least vigilant citizen.
1
I wish I did; but I am one of the wakeful kind.
2
So everyone spent the hours of darkness in wakeful watching and waiting.
3
Stephen sometimes slept; Elfride alone was wakeful and palpitating hour after hour.
4
This watchful guardian of the mid-world is as wakeful as the birds.
5
He was wakeful and that wretched Habanera kept throbbing in his head.
1
The lost chelonans were cowed, and looked with open-eyed hopelessness at Judah.
2
Scarlett Trent looked at him for a moment open mouthed and open-eyed.
3
Being alone with her, her silence and open-eyed immobility made him uncomfortable.
4
There was Luise, who was both open-eyed and bare-faced to the clickstones.
5
It dismays those who are sympathetic to the cause but also open-eyed.
Usage of argus-eyed in English
1
It was Alvarez de Quadra, Bishop of Aquila, the argus-eyed ambassador of Spain.
2
His telephone message had thrown a cordon of argus-eyed men around New York.
3
Those agency employes were argus-eyed, watching each move made by him and his assistants.
4
Even the 'argus-eyed press' has no theory to offer.
5
The Capitol building gleamed, argus-eyed on the hill.
6
I enter out of the night and unburden my heart to this argus-eyed watchman, and, lo!
7
But the argus-eyed conductor soon spied him, and not recognizing him as a ticket-holder, swooped down upon him at once.
8
Ruth passed Mrs. Bowers's argus-eyed bay window, as did Shelby, and Mrs. Grundy had her speculative pickings of the event.
9
Nor was much concealed from the Argus-eyed politicians in the republic.
10
All was apparent indifference, and Argus-eyed vigilance.
11
No, there was the oath of office, and the government that administered it had been found long-armed and Argus-eyed.
12
What whisper the Argus-eyed bondswomen?'
13
It was wonderful how Argus-eyed and how long of arm were the emissaries of the orthodox party in the church in those times.
14
For once the Argus-eyed curiosity of a Yankee village, compared with which French or Austrian police are easy to baffle, was fairly eluded.
15
Now I knew why it was that its frowning facade had seemed to watch us Argus-eyed as the Things had tossed us toward it.
16
It was Alvarez de Quadra, Bishop of Aquila, the argus-eyed ambassador of Spain.
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Argus-eyed through the time