How To Use Watchful In A Sentence
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It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
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For all his bold chivalry this watchful Celt seems surely to have strayed from a wayside pulpit.
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Under the Watchful eye of the demon, wander alone in the formless Chaos.
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He was watchful, weary, worried, and altogether untrusting of anything she and her companions said or did.
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Eating under the watchful eye of Chloe, the engagement party lunch was fabulous.
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I must be especially watchful for assumptions which can be the root of misunderstandings.
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It was not discovered by the severe indagation and watchfulness of ministers of state from foreign intelligence, -- the usual way of discovering such plots.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Gymnasts start early and children as young as two use soft apparatus to learn their first somersault and handspring, under the watchful eyes of more than 20 qualified coaches.
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Between [Tilda] Swinton's wounded, watchful eyes and [Amber] Tamblyn's soft internality emerges something that transcends the inherently stale nature of their transactions.
GreenCine Daily: Stephanie Daley.
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He first learnt to fish under the watchful eye of his grandmother.
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Add hereunto the strange and wonderful quiet disposure of the magistracy of this city into the hand of persons prudent, diligent, and watchful, whom we have reason to pray for, and bless God for.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Lastly, the youngsters had a crack at a 7m indoor climbing wall under the supervision of the ever-watchful PTIs.
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Love, sex, duplicity, betrayal - the abiding themes of literature are all there, along with the fascinating twist that it's all going on under the watchful eye of the public.
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As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches.
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And though such might not make him a legend, what cemented his icon status was the sheer volume of work he churned out under the unwatchful eyes of Cannon Films.
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Based on a traditional steak and mushroom pie, the dish includes $1,000 worth of Wagyu beef fillet, $3,330 in Chinese matsutake mushrooms (which are so rare that they are grown under the watchful eyes of armed guards), two bottles of 1982 Chateau Mouton Rothschild at a cost of about $4,200 each, as well as black truffles and gold leaf.
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In this dark solitary place, married to this shy, watchful man, her cheerfulness was a bubble-bath in a blizzard.
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Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
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At his watchful distance, her pallor was a beacon, a broadcast resonance.
The Best American Erotica 2006
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One of the fluffy chicks takes some faltering steps under the watchful gaze of an adult flamingo.
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Her expression was watchful and alert.
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Women nationwide blame not only their Government for its unwatchful eye, but the international community for its indifference.
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Little do they know the secrets she hides from the outside world, particularly those having to do with the daily horror she experiences under the watchful eye of her abusive husband.
The Wild Zone by Joy Fielding: Book summary
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While the combined use of Hypericum with orthodox medications has even shown an increased favorable response, it is advisable to exert some cautious watchfulness with the prolonged usage of St. Johnswort with serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI).
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
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There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
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Litus had waited for a long time, waiting for one of the two to return, to relieve him from his watchful duties.
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There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
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The two asura trundled along behind this advancing wedge, trailed by a watchful Caithe and a growling Garm.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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We keep a watchful eye on our elderly neighbors.
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Under the watchful eyes of the police, hustlers and scalpers worked the new spectators relentlessly in the hopes of getting rid of tickets for the game before they were stuck with them.
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It's especially important to be watchful for these signs if your child often plays with pet dogs or cats, visits public parks, plays in sandboxes, or likes to put things in his or her mouth.
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Either way, evil lurked within to snare the unwitting and unwatchful until brave souls rose up to cleanse it.
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Floridians are keeping a watchful eye on Hurricane Wilma, whose winds are now gusting at about 150 miles an hour.
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In collating books in two or more volumes double watchfulness is needed to guard against a missing signature, which may have its place filled by the same pages belonging to another volume -- a mixture sometimes made in binderies, in "gathering" the sheets, and which makes it necessary to see that the signatures are right as well as the pages.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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And next, the courser-man, in secrecy, unscrewed one of the bullion buttons on his buff jerkin, and taking from it a scrap of paper, handed this also to the watchful feodary.
Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
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There is another annoyance -- the risk of valuable cattle being houghed or otherwise mutilated; a risk calling for incessant watchfulness.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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Pale sunlight filters through the trees that overhang the water's edge, throwing veiled patches of gold onto the turgid brown river where cattle drink under the watchful eye of a young herdsman.
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There is a further constraint in that the Ministry of Defence will keep a watchful eye on any potential partner or owner.
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They excitedly planned their own revolt farther away from the watchful eye of the mukhabarat, or Arab intelligence agencies.
Syria Revolt Fueled by Roof Fires and Tweets
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Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
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But you could also elect to have your dead body help a student mortician learn his trade or spend a few months rotting away under the watchful eye of forensic scientists.
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In face, watchful behind a blind; habitually not uncensorious and contemptuous perhaps.
Bleak House
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Gezephi Ntshanyase kneels in the dirt as she hacks off lumps of kaoline with a primitive hoe, all the while keeping a watchful eye on the crumbling rock face above.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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“I know you'll be tempted to get involved in . . . illicit activities now that you won't be under the watchful eye of your dweeby graduate student dorm monitor.”
The First Apartment: A Rite of Passage
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Another over-watchful Newbury "awakener" rapped on the head a nodding man who protested indignantly that he was wide-awake, and was only bowing in solemn assent and approval of the minister's arguments.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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People living in the area are having their cars targeted over and over again, despite being under the watchful eye of the police.
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Back home, and under the watchful eye of Mae and son, Marty is progressing well.
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The event is run under the watchful eye of troops from the Royal Artillery Display Troop.
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Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
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It was black or dark like tar, and sentineled to the east and north by tall, dark pines — the serried spears of armed and watchful giants, as they now seemed to him — ogres almost — so gloomy, suspicious and fantastically erratic was his own mood in regard to all this.
An American Tragedy
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They will be keeping a watchful eye on their friend to make sure Jade is eating properly and taking care of herself.
The Sun
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A wide-brimmed hat was pulled down low over his eyes, but Alanis could still see them, surprisingly watchful and aware, glittering at her, like two black beetles in a weather-beaten face.
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Needless to say, these measures were generally foiled by the watchfulness of the soldiery; so poker, pontoon, crown-and - anchor and the like continued to flourish, along with housie-housie.
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Nonetheless, your resident Latin censor—dash it all—must have been dozing when he allowed a certain lapsus calami aka “slip of the pen” to pass his watchful eye.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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The Church must be watchful lest false teachers worm their way into the fellowship and spread damnable heresies.
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Brian felt it the moment he entered the city limits - a sudden primeval chill, an instinctive animal watchfulness.
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Under the watchful eye of their mother, the two boys played on the shore.
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And without Darrow's guidance, we knew not what danger the girl did or did not present to us, so we were watchful of her, and admittedly ungentle when she was given to undue noise or movement.
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I felt the panic of his watchful father, but I was mesmerized by his youthful passion.
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A wereson is one who is ensorcelled - who has within him another being, hidden, watchful and looking out.
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His shoulders are hunched, eyes watchful.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first meaning of the word jealous is "watchful or solicitous.
Lorna Bright: The Real Religious Challenge of the Second Commandment
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Lay the tiles row by row, always keeping a watchful eye for correct alignment along the working lines.
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The gymnasiarch stands watchfully by, swinging his cane to smite painfully whoever, in over eagerness, breaks away before the signal.
A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life
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He still keeps a watchful eye on the rugby world, although these pages are too small to relate all he has to say on that matter.
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Here two Vulcan girls played under the watchful eye of a sehlat.
The Idic Epidemic
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At one point a watchful helicopter hovered overhead, as crowds cheered two open-topped buses of officers driving around Parliament Square to get their message across.
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Her accentuation of the disciples' spiritual lethargy is all the more striking because she praises her female readers for displaying watchfulness, the very virtue that the disciples lack.
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A watchful eye is constantly kept by the patrol on the waters outside the base port.
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Be especially watchful that the players begin each time with a fresh grip.
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Edgar, to whom this was communicated, saw with terror the ascendance thus acquired over her judgment as well as her affections, and became more watchful and more uneasy in observing the progress of this friendship, than all the flattering devoirs of the gay Baronet, or the more serious assiduities of the Major.
Camilla
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Be watchful for later jackets on the Booker winner with flashes advertising the prize.
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They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass, down to the commissionaire and the hovering chestnut man, who rigidly reasserted their own watchfulness.
The Complete Father Brown
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She smiled, and turned to look up into Anthony's watchful gaze.
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Though no substitute for a watchful eye, fences are a good way to help keep a wandering young one in bounds.
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Those closest were wrapped in sleeping bags, sitting for the most part in fold-out chairs. A police car idled watchfully near by.
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there was a watchful dignity in the room
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The two gruesome gargoyle bookends are based on the watchful pair who overlook the St Magnus Cathedral west door, gazing out over Broad Street.
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But now he no longer came, and Judith, for all her deliberate flow of spirits, did not quite convince the watchful eyes of Leander’s lady — the postmistress was a trifle too cheerful.
Judith of the Plains
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As the day approaches, we do not wish to be among those caught unawares and unwatchful.
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Localized prostate cancer can be either treated with radiation, surgery or watchful waiting.
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It's not a waggish jokeyness, more of a watchful sharpness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police officers in small groups stood around keeping a watchful eye on the proceedings, an unobtrusive presence.
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To begin with, her eyes are wary and watchful; her answers are cautious.
Times, Sunday Times
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A watchful father hovered over an infant; his hopes and feelings were expressed with tender strength.
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Contemporary accounts give the impression of a watchful, mistrustful regime, of a country bristling with fortresses and teeming with soldiers.
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Sir Titus Salt kept a watchful eye over a panel of beer tasters judging a competition to recreate a brew in his honour yesterday.
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Instead she merely sat up slowly, pulling the filmy wrapping with her for warmth, regarding the woman before her with watchful judgment.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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There were many, misled by her petulant lips and watchful eyes, to call her sulky: these did not judge her silence favourably.
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay
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He rode about the city those days behind a team of spirited bays, whose glossy hides and metaled harness bespoke the watchful care of hostler and coachman.
The Financier
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She threw him a sullen look and he shrugged and laughed and under her watchful eye began to dress.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The reader is thrust deep within the head of "the unknowable, the inconstruable, the probably indefeasible Master Cromwell"; the tricky turbulent world of Tudor England is seen entirely from behind his ever-watchful eyes.
Critical Mass
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There would be a few minutes of strained silence as we were handed over from one parent to the other, all under the watchful eye of my aunt.
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The tank is therefore cleaned daily by a stream of divers, mostly volunteers, under the watchful eye of the North Rock aquarist.
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She picked it up under the watchful eye of the stall keeper, and held it gingerly in her hands.
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Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful.
Farouche
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The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends.
Works of Many Dimensions
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The latter was one of her best pictures, and she was in her element as a fastidious, slightly cruel and watchful woman, trying to keep control of life.
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To begin with, her eyes are wary and watchful; her answers are cautious.
Times, Sunday Times
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The motivation for Zardari's judicial coup against the PML-N bigwigs, the brothers Sharif, was intended to preserve the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), a corrupt deal struck by Bhutto and Musharraf -- under the watchful eyes of Bush administration "fixers" -- whereby Musharraf would be "reelected" President in return for absolving the gross criminality and corruption of Bhutto and other PPP leaders.
GlobalResearch.ca
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The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards
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The cat on the left has a watchful, almost wary stare.
Learn to Draw Cats
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She threw him a sullen look and he shrugged and laughed and under her watchful eye began to dress.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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This remarkable transformation did not escape the attention of sharp-sighted Juno, who sent her still more watchful servant, Argus of the hundred eyes, to guard Io.
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He had made a feast for them and he had been unwatchful.
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Keep a watchful eye on elderly residents.
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The web is a terrible, confusing, violent, ruleless place that has run wild and cannot be harnessed and will never be placed under the benevolent, watchful eye of government!
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His shoulders are hunched, eyes watchful.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also we ask all parishioners to be vigilant and keep a watchful eye on this amenity.
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A man hovers in a dim corner of the room, soundless, watchful.
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Oversight and risk management improved dramatically at Bank Danamon under the watchful eyes of Singapore's Temasek (which bought a stake, now at 67%, when the bank was denationalized), and at Bank NISP under OCBC Bank of Singapore (which gradually acquired a majority last decade, as the founding family diluted its holding).
Can Indonesians Bank on Reform?
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Cutting corners might be a shortcut to trouble, so always stay alert and watchful.
Survive the Nine to Five - a woman's guide to working well
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The park beside Santa Sabina is empty except for a few mangy, watchful cats and an old man who is playing simple scales on the flute - trilling up the scale, trilling down.
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The owner will have to install private drainage, link up to the mains water and electricity and rebuild the property under the watchful eye of the park planners.
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The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture.
On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
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Our Governess is as active and watchful as ever, down with the Sun and up with the Lark, and then doth her messenger summon us to desert our beds, if she perceives any unwilling, she subtilly tempers the unpleasantness of her early importunity; she perswades them thereunto, by alledging, what benefit thereby will accrew to their healths; nor is her accustomed care to be discommended, since therein she aims not only at the benefit of our Bodies, but the eternal welfare of our Souls in the performance of our duties to God and our Parents.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex
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We agreed and, to this day, those items are safely kept in that bomb shelter under the watchful protection of that community watch.
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Her expression sobered slightly, her gaze becoming more watchful.
The Second Time
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Pale sunlight filters through the trees that overhang the water's edge, throwing veiled patches of gold onto the turgid brown river where cattle drink under the watchful eye of a young herdsman.
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wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter
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I love the fact that one of our most famous singers is keeping a watchful eye on democracy.
The Sun
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They were on site from day one, living, breathing, experiencing smithery, under the watchful eye of somebody who had the information.
Archive 2005-06-01
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Learn the basics under the watchful eye of a qualified instructor.
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So watchful and skilful were the besieged, that the greatest havoc had been made amongst the men employed in working the engines, and not yet had even the palisades and barbacan been successfully stormed.
The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History
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Beginner's luck, they wordlessly agreed, anteing again - but then kept a watchful eye on the underfed scrapman who'd just appropriated their potential winnings.
The DreydelMaker (exerpt)
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The St. Petersburg resident lassoed the African rock python out of the toilet, under the watchful eyes of his wife and three-year-old daughter, the St. Petersburg Times reported.
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Lush fur and watchful eyes help this gray fox survive in the harsh, often cold climate of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.
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He was perhaps six feet tall, with a whipcord leanness to his body and a thin, narrow face in which the eyes gleamed watchfully.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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Here, apparently, royal ladies disported themselves under the watchful gaze of women sentries.
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The thing is to be watchful even when you think your child is safe.
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The great danger is that both people and arms could be smuggled under the unwatchful eyes of the Egyptians.
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He planted his watchful mo - ther as a kind of duenna over her, when - ever he rode out to pay his complin: ients tQ the lord of Gravenegg, whofe vaffal he was.
Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford].
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Keep a watchful eye on elderly residents.
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The photography, buttressed by watchful blocking and acting, invites careful consideration of the calamity as opposed to tantalization.
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It was the face of one very young and beautiful, and the deep, tender eyes looked down, as with a watchful fondness, upon the lucubrator and his labours.
The Disowned — Volume 04
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Night sweats might be early symptom of a developing illness so watchful waiting is useful.
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Watchfully gazing down at the concrete floor some 40 feet below, she took survey of what was below: standard sized crates, quite unordinary looking considering they were in a warehouse.
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Sir Titus Salt kept a watchful eye over a panel of beer tasters judging a competition to recreate a brew in his honour yesterday.
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Under the unwatchful helm of a writer-director and a co-screenwriter, however, the results are less than admirable and almost completely devoid of any comedic inspiration.
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Under the watchful eyes of promoters and fans, she moved nimbly around semifinal competitor Stephanie Thomas and scouted for an opening.
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But the group didn't stop there, as the entire concoction's tied together by a quasi-religious theme of traveling home under the watchful eye of Mother Mary.
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Under watchful Chinese eyes, of course.
Times, Sunday Times
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All this morbid watchfulness and — and idolisation, or whatever you like to call it —
John Gabriel Borkman
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Your watchful siblings are the editors perched on your lamp shade, magnifying glasses poised to catch your mistakes.
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In other words, rather than returning to their communities anonymously, ex-cons will come back under a watchful eye.
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The team was enjoying a little capitalist indulgence under the watchful eye of their commissar.
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While I was down at Sorrento, and under the watchful eyes of this delightfully lithographed bird, I took a call from a mate in Melbourne who has been seeing a young lady on and off for a few months.
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Once again, we appeal to the community to be vigilant and to keep a watchful eye out for the elderly.
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Ever watchful - my guardian angel.
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Who could have imagined then, in Crumpsall, that the ancient Jewish hope, “Next year in Jerusalem”—for so long more a velleity than a hope, the feeblest and most unanticipated of anticipations—would be realized in their lifetime and that they would be able to stand here, under the watchful eye of Israeli soldiers, but otherwise unimpeded, together?
Kalooki Nights
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The hiring and unhiring of new employees was like an underhand rag-toss into the cyclone that was thrashing around just under his unwatchful eye.
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Police have warned residents to keep a watchful eye on their homes after a spate of break-ins
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I glance up at those four watchful eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
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For over all this ground lay extended, then, in watchful strength all safe and unespied, the basilisk of whom the
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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In his letter the pope said that in the wake of the sexual abuse crisis, the church had to be all the more watchful and attentive about who should become priests and ensure that future ministers do not succumb to what he called a banal and destructive sexuality.
Pope: Would-Be Priests Must Not be Deterred by Sex Scandal
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She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye.
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Sometimes, when fishing alongshore with my Indian at the paddle, the canoe would push its nose silently around a point, and I would see the heron's heavy slanting flight already halfway up to the tree-tops, long before our coming had been suspected by the watchful little mother sheldrake, or even by the deer feeding close at hand among the lily pads.
Wood Folk at School
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Instead she reminds me of a bird: tiny with dark watchful eyes ; no clowning.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had learned too early in life to be wary and watchful, to worry and to expect the worst.
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It's just plain hard for some of us to commit wholeheartedly to that workout unless we're under the watchful eyes of skinny girls in spandex (or muscley men in man-thongs?) or have the galvanizing guilt of a prepaid membership.
Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: Should I Cancel My Gym Membership?
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Under the watchful gaze of roaming goats and camels we opened presents early in the morning under the one lone tree further inland.
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Since then she's kept a watchful eye on the space behind the cooker, much to our amusement, some days for hours at a time.
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His mother kept a watchful eye on him.
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The union will remain watchful.
Times, Sunday Times
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With nearly every herd of game, or near by, will be found the faithful kongoni, always alert, watchful, and vigilant, and it is nearly always his cry of warning that sends the beasts of the plains flying from dangers that they can not see.
In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
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Swindon Council employs dog wardens whose job is to patrol the borough's streets keeping a watchful eye on careless owners who let their pets foul the streets.
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I've been keeping a watchful eye and ear on the progress of the solo yachtsmen and women as they battle their way through the round-the-world race, urging them on and sending them silent good wishes.
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The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends.
Works of Many Dimensions
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While Lakamba was speaking he had glanced once rapidly over his shoulder, just to make sure that there was nobody behind him, and, tranquillised in that respect, he had extracted a siri-box out of the folds of his waist-cloth, and was wrapping carefully the little bit of betel-nut and a small pinch of lime in the green leaf tendered him politely by the watchful Babalatchi.
Almayer's Folly
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Small groups delegate both recorders and reporters, and the latter are designated to provide feedback to the larger group, all under the watchful eye of the facilitator.
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And Mr. Hinks, having displayed a freckled fist of extraordinary size and pugginess in an ostentatiously familiar manner to Mr. Polly's close inspection by sight and smell, turned it about this way and that and shaken it gently for a moment or so, replaced it carefully in his pocket as if for future use, receded slowly and watchfully for a pace, and then turned away as if to other matters, and ceased to be even in outward seeming a friend ....
The History of Mr. Polly
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Now the parents are issuing a stark warning to other parents, urging them to keep a watchful eye on their children.
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Your watchful siblings are the editors perched on your lamp shade, magnifying glasses poised to catch your mistakes.
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The entrances are guarded by watchful security staff.
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twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights
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Unmarried, very short, plump early in life, fat later, overdressed, vain, and watchful, Gibbon was easy to make fun of, and though he belonged to Johnson's Club, he was not a clubbable man.
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The Forest Department should be given more manpower to keep a watchful eye on the resources.
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Provoked into a confrontation, Laramie slugs the photographer in front of a watchful eye and is ultimately sentenced to undergo anger management therapy.
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Secondly, 50 children changed from watchful waiting to surgery.
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Higden having had the imprudence, in his grief, to make known his recent misfortune, it had reached the ears of his landlord, who already was watchful and suspicious, from a year and half arrears of his rent; and steps were immediately preparing to seize whatever was upon the premises the next morning; which, by bringing upon him all his other creditors, would infallibly immure him in the lingering hopelessness of a prison.
Camilla
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He first learnt to fish under the watchful eye of his grandmother.
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The fellow turned a keen , watchful face on the inquirer.
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She took it back, apologized, and hurried back to the counter under the watchful eye of the man.
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But for years he was only able to take pictures as a dangerous hobby, under the watchful eye of the Russian secret police.
Times, Sunday Times
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Annie said nothing more and I continued to scrub the floors under her watchful gaze.
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They single out a debutante, Cecile de Volange, new to society and under the ever-watchful eye of her mother, and Hortense de Tourvel, a settled lady of a certain age.
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My whole romantic future was going up in flames, right now, under the watchful, ferretlike eyes of Felicia and Ronnie.
Sundays at Tiffany's
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But I visited last September and they were not keeping such a watchful eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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And one day in the month of fodder-burning and the taking of cold baths, Gandolo of the Watchful Eye spied a few shifty-looking men lurking around a merchant’s jade shop, eyeing the expensive wares with the kind of ferrety greed seen in the faces of takers and breakers the world over.
GANDOLO OF THE WATCHFUL EYE • by Bill Ward
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Even the striking of a match starts a little worm coiling, which is too small to complete a circle but is eternally watchful.
A Passage To India
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Thou art, surely, casuist good enough to know, (what I have insisted upon* heretofore,) that the sin of seducing a credulous and easy girl, is as great as that of bringing to your lure an incredulous and watchful one.
Clarissa Harlowe
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He first learnt to fish under the watchful eye of his grandmother.
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All eyes are fixed on the "huer;" he stands watchful and still, until the shoal is thoroughly embayed, in water which he knows to be within the depth of the "seine" net.
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
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But those watchful, pale-blue eyes and the tufty chevrons that punctuate their brows are easier to spot.
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Ross Shanklin scrambled to his feet and stood watchfully and awkwardly.
THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY
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Her watchfulness is untiring; she who guarded the sepulcher was the first to approach it, and the last to depart from its awful yet sublime scene.
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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There she lives under the watchful eye of the proprietress, the geisha house ‘mother’, even stricter than her own mother.
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Slow it is," the watchful, excited Hiram heard him say, working the wheel as cautiously as an automobilist rounding a sharp curve.
Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane
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Mandarins, clumsy in the weak mortar lightship, stumbled against the waistband as if it were just then being discovered, while other, livelier, sours, shouted and slapped the castanet during spontaneous bid-quoting contingencies and then became very quintet and watchful.
Farouche
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But mostly it was defiance, watchfulness and the clarity of mind to know a hittable ball when you saw one.
Times, Sunday Times
