Usage of "on the qui vive"

испанский

Lively attentiveness.

Использование термина on the qui vive на английском

He sat like a man who is perpetually on the qui vive. 
 The Illustrious Prince 

A species of horrible curiosity kept every one on the qui vive. 
 An Historical Mystery (The Gondreville Mystery) 

We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat. 
 Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea 

His instinct for the truth is always on the qui vive.-C. 
 Our Friend John Burroughs 

You will readily understand that all my faculties were now on the qui vive. 
 Castles in the Air 

Yet these two women were certainly on the qui vive. 
 The Way of Ambition 

But a man cannot always be on the qui vive. 
 Baron Trigault's Vengeance 

We're pretty well forward here and we have to keep on the qui vive. 
 The Kingdom of the Blind 

He produced the effect of setting the men on the qui vive without alarming them. 
 Told in the East 

These incidents had set the whole police force of the city on the qui vive. 
 Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 

From the gunner's mate down every man of the crew was on the qui vive. 
 The Boy Allies under Two Flags 

The colonists were on the qui vive, and did not leave their post at the Chimneys. 
 The Mysterious Island 

The guard was thoroughly on the qui vive by that time, if not suspicious, then officious. 
 Guns of the Gods: A Story of Yasmini's Youth 

Instantly Byers was on the qui vive, he being nearest the point indicated by the blue flare. 
 Our Pilots in the Air 

He was instantly on the qui vive. 
 An Original Belle 

Every girl was on the qui vive. 
 Dora Thorne 

Translations for on the qui vive

испанский

Значения термина on the qui vive на английском