By the fire stood a keen-featured, sharp-eyed man of middle height and lithe figure, whose manner and first movements as the door opened showed alertness and energy of character.

And so the man who sets to work like Fitzherbert loses his alertness and his observation, with the result that instead of bringing a very fresh and incisive mind to bear on life, he loses his way in books, and falls a victim to the awful passion for feeling able to despise other people's opinions.

The perpetual novelty of modern conditions demands an imaginative alertness we eliminate.

Alcatraz came back to his companions at a halting trot which denoted his uneasy alertness.

It is then that they display the alertness and the dare-devil courage which have won for the English terriers their name and fame.

Elder Brown mounted his patient steed that stood sleepily motionless in the warm sunlight, with his great pointed ears displayed to the right and left, as though their owner had grown tired of the life burden their weight inflicted upon him, and was, old soldier fashion, ready to forego the once rigid alertness of early training for the pleasures of frequent rest on arms.

It is impossible to say what woke me, but it was no gradual process, seeing that I jumped from deep sleep to absolute alertness in a single instant.

And the soldier murmured, "Amen." LXIII THE IRON-CLAD OATH Under Anna's passive air lay a vivid alertness to every fact in range of eye or ear.

He was preaching that alertness, that clean agility and vigilance, which is as necessary to gain pleasure as to gain holiness, as indispensable in a lover as in a monk.

But it requires a particular alertness, if not devotion to these phenomena, to appreciate the wide-spread, but late and unexpected glory of the Scarlet Oaks.

Something in the attitude of the stranger, whom she had never seen before, something in the rigid pose, the intent gazeindicating both alertness and repressionriveted the girl's attention at once and gave her a distinct shock of uneasiness.

The practice of cropping, it is true, was even then illegal and punishable by law, but, although there were occasional convictions under the Cruelty to Animals Act, the dog owners who admired the alertness and perkiness of the cut ear ignored the risk they ran, and it was not until the Kennel Club took resolute action against the practice that cropping was entirely abandoned.