Both men stood up to it, as keenly alert as they could be, each trying to drive home heavy blows.

The foreman had been quick to note the keen, intelligent interest and deft-handedness of this strangely alert new employé.

These constitute your present available stock; in speaking or writing you could, if you kept yourself mentally alert, summon them on the moment.

He was stout, and wonderfully alert.

Thisby the Lord Harry, he's caught sight of us, too!" Fullaway was coming quickly up the lawn from the direction of the Serpentine; he looked unusually alert, vigorous, and bustling; by his side, hurrying to keep pace with him, was the New York detective.

He became tinglingly alert.

But, as his new mistress had said, he was a wise little dog for one who had only known the world for a few months, and his brain was exceedingly alert.

He has an exceptionally alert mind and recalls past events with the ease of a youth.

Oloof protested, his ears furtively alert for the coming of other bullets.

THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND HIM On one particular Sunday in August, a brilliant sunny, breezeless day, such a day as would under ordinary circumstances conduce to certain drowsiness even in the most piously disposed, the church-goers of Little Branston were preternaturally alert, if not quite so attentive as usual.

The stiff and soldierly-appearing reserve officer with bristling Kaiserian moustache, so professedly alert and efficient, who looked at the mottled back of my passport and frowned at the recent visa, "A la Place de Calais, bon pour aller à Dunkerque, P.O. Le Chef d'Etat- Major,"

It was the deep suspense of Cumberland which made him so silently alert.

For a moment he stood with clenched fists and heaving breast; then, with grim eagerness, with every sense supernaturally alert, with nerves tense, quick eyes and ready muscles, he went forward on the trail.

She has feeble health, but a surprisingly alert mind, and a keen sharp memory.

Darting its head from side to side, venomously alert against the smallest sound, the adder reached Silencieux.

At any rate, she was vividly alert, naturally eloquent, physically capable of impressing her personality upon others.

Mr. Heatherbloom always peered carefully about before venturing from the house with his pampered charges; he was no less watchfully alert when he returned.

The same instant, with a movement amazingly alert, he started to his feet and stood uprightsniffing the air.

My mind was wondrously alert.

At all events, old Mrs. Talbot did seem to have won certain confidences from life and death refused to more consciously alert ears.

It was like the sudden opening of a gigantic blast-furnace, and in that instant I saw him vividlyhis thin, saturnine face, his damp black hair pushed sleekly back, his lips twisted to a cruel smile, his eyes craftily alert, as if to some ambushed danger continually at hand.

She had been curiously alert and restless all the afternoon.

" Olympia was hugging the astonished woman, who glanced in terror over her shoulder to see that feminine curiosity was not dangerously alert.

To join this parade there presently came Lord Vernon, reclining languidly in his invalid chair, and muffled in many rugs; but his eyes were eagerly alert and he gazed with evident anticipation down the long promenade of the Digue.