watchfulness

How To Use watchfulness In A Sentence

• The sixth rule Tichonius calls the recapitulation, which, with sufficient watchfulness, is discovered in difficult parts of Scripture. On Christian Doctrine, in Four Books
• Unthinking courage in the matter of victuals is rather a relief from the strained and anxious hygienic watchfulness of the overcivilized and the overrich. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
• Their alikeness went deeper than just their heavy tans, their silent walk, their watchfulness and complete awareness of their surroundings. Galactic Derelict
• Mr Baptist, never taking his eyes from his dreaded chum of old, softly sat down on the floor with his back against the door and one of his ankles in each hand: resuming the attitude (except that it was now expressive of unwinking watchfulness) in which he had sat before the same man in the deeper shade of another prison, one hot morning at Marseilles. Little Dorrit
• Or, again, if we borrow from Pope Innocent III. his ideas as to the mystical meanings of gems, we find that chalcedony, which is pale in the light and sparkles in the dark, is synonymous with humility; the topaz with chastity and the merit of good works, while the chrysoprase, the queen of minerals, implies wisdom and watchfulness. The Cathedral
• Also from the influence of spiritual beings an injuring of the moral person is possible, so long as the rational creature has not as yet attained to its ultimate perfection, so that here also there is place for the duty of watchfulness, in order that the diverse personalities that are as yet in process of development may not act hinderingly upon each other. Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.
• The State Department said we preferred a peaceful solution, and our ambassador to South Korea, Jim Laney, described our position as one of watchfulness, firmness, and patience.
• But mostly it was defiance, watchfulness and the clarity of mind to know a hittable ball when you saw one. Times, Sunday Times
• 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
• All this morbid watchfulness and — and idolisation, or whatever you like to call it — John Gabriel Borkman