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Meanings of qui vive in English
Usage of qui vive in English
1
He sat like a man who is perpetually on the qui vive.
2
A species of horrible curiosity kept every one on the qui vive.
3
We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat.
4
His instinct for the truth is always on the qui vive.-C.
5
You will readily understand that all my faculties were now on the qui vive.
6
Yet these two women were certainly on the qui vive.
7
I know the government are all on the ' qui vive.'
8
But a man cannot always be on the qui vive.
9
We're pretty well forward here and we have to keep on the qui vive.
10
He produced the effect of setting the men on the qui vive without alarming them.
11
These incidents had set the whole police force of the city on the qui vive.
12
From the gunner's mate down every man of the crew was on the qui vive.
13
The colonists were on the qui vive, and did not leave their post at the Chimneys.
14
All the people were en the qui vive.
15
The guard was thoroughly on the qui vive by that time, if not suspicious, then officious.
16
Instantly Byers was on the qui vive, he being nearest the point indicated by the blue flare.