After a few seconds' silence a soft voice replied: "Charlotte, Charlotteit is I!" Zacharias trembled; and as he listened with ears on the alert for each sound, the foliage on the trellis struck against the window and a figure climbed up quietlyoh

And he gazed anxiously at the door, his ear on the alert for the least sound.

Captain T had taken command of a larger vessel, the Alert, and the owners, at the request of my friends, had written to Captain T to take me on board should the Alert return to the States before the Pilgrim.

Captain T had taken command of a larger vessel, the Alert, and the owners, at the request of my friends, had written to Captain T to take me on board should the Alert return to the States before the Pilgrim.

Our crew were somewhat diminished; we were short-handed for a voyage round Cape Horn in the depth of winter, and so cramped and deadened was the Alert by her unusually large cargo, and

His strong body clamours constantly for the sweetness and comforts of life that are denied him, his alert brain urges him to organize and his independent spirit gives him the courage and tenacity to achieve his aims.

The lumber trust, smarting under its last defeat, was alarmed and alert.

Mahomet passing by, as he did, the gaieties and temptations of youth, had his mind alert for the influences of this Nature, full of awful power, and for the contemplation of life and the Universe around him.

Returning to camp, I found old Jerry awake and on the alert, and briefly told him what I had seen, asking him if he did not think it a strange thing for the animal to do.

Every nerve was strung to its utmost tension, every sense was on the alert.

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

Pat with his keen eye, his pulse bounding, and every sense on the alert, was keeping a careful look-out from behind an immense projecting buttress of the tree.

We were on the alert, but to Pat the chief honour and glory belonged.

I know of no sport where it is necessary to be so continuously on the alert.

" "Regarded them with alert eyes" THE EAGLE'S SHADOW I

Years spent in constant danger enabled him to keep his sense of hearing alert even when he slept.

The horse, also, with a high head scanned the circling willows, alert; but the man for whom the stallion and the wolf watched gave no heed to either.

I will immediately fill every place with terror: be ye alert in defending the citadel."

After that he advanced his camp itself nearer to the enemy, to a hill within the enemy's view, nearly two miles from Geronium; that they might be aware that he was on the alert to protect his foragers if any attack should be made upon them.

The captain of a company in support is constantly on the alert for the major's signals or commands.

Then an alert head turned round to him, and a rather peevish gesture bade him be seated, while the editor resumed his work.

The lieutenant in charge will hang up the key on its hook in the guard-room, and will declare that every time he made his rounds he found the men alert and vigilant.

Mark's heart leaped and began to race, but outwardly he showed no trace that he was alert.

When thou art up, alert and gay, Then, cheerful Flower!

When, smitten by the morning ray, I see thee rise alert and gay, Then, chearful Flower!