Here, again, it is an example of the alertness of the organization and its close connection with the government that the Berlin magistracy deputed to twenty-three Hilfscommissionen from the Frauendienst the work of giving advice and charity relief to the unemployed.

But Mary had seen the dart of his hand and the sudden alertness in his eyes.

She came in half an hour after the kill, and there was no longer the lithesome alertness to her slender legs, or gladness in the tilt of her ears or the poise of her head.

None gave any sign of alertness toward any possible approaching danger.

He goes on: "I have the pleasure to acquaint you that their Lordships extremely well approve of the whole of your proceedings and that they have great satisfaction in the account you have given them of the good behaviour of your officers and men and of the cheerfulness and alertness with which they went through the fatigues and dangers of their late Voyage.

I felt the necessity for mental alertness for the first time in my life; always, before, I had striven to conceal what I knew.

The face of the clock was the only reminder she had left the room, the face of the clock and a certain alertness within herself.

And then the coronal joy of a reward of merit for efficiency and alertness on guard!

" By the 14th her bottom was thoroughly repaired, and Cook speaks highly of the Dutch workmen: "I do not believe there is a Marine Yard in the World where work is done with more alertness than here, or where there are better conveniences for heaving ships down, both in point of safety and Despatch.