Here were free-and-easy young landowners in embroidered jackets and grey trousers, with long curling hair and little waxed moustaches, staring about them with gentlemanly insolence; other noblemen in Cossack dress, with extraordinarily short necks, and eyes lost in layers of fat, were snorting with distressing distinctness; merchants sat a little apart on the qui-vive, as it is called; officers were chatting freely among themselves. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He remembered the general character of the river from his former descent, but he had to be on the _qui-vive_ as to details. ❋ Frederick S. Dellenbaugh (N/A)
It is common, however, for the more famed war chiefs to keep their personal enemies on the _qui-vive_, by periodic threats. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
I feel very much on the qui-vive, as I haven't seen that particular part before. ❋ Keith Henderson (1932)
Toutes les nuits, qui-vive! alerte! assauts! attaques! ❋ Unknown (1920)
On going round sentries about midnight, I was pleased to find that they were both alert, and that, as it was a cold night, each guard had built a bonfire, silhouetted in the cheerful blaze of which stood the sentry -- a clear-cut monument to all round that here was a British sentry fully on the _qui-vive_. ❋ Ernest Dunlop Swinton (1909)
It was nearly six months since a new vessel had entered San Diego, and of course, every one was on the qui-vive. ❋ Unknown (1909)
These changes, of course, set the whole beach on the qui-vive, and we were all waiting for the boat to come ashore, that we might have things explained. ❋ Unknown (1909)
"How do you know that?" asked Marguerite, with her suspicions once more on the qui-vive. ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)
Already, with the keen intuition which had been on the qui-vive the whole evening, she scented some mystery in this sudden outburst on the part of her young protegee. ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)
Brent had been on the _qui-vive_, steadied against any self-betrayal, yet now he struggled against the impulse to tremble with excitement. ❋ Charles Neville Buck (1904)
Paris would not be Paris if it did not keep us on the _qui-vive_. ❋ Unknown (1886)
The eternal _qui-vive_ and the misfortunes of war were forgotten in the arms of courtesans. ❋ Keene [Translator] Wallace (1877)
With the exception of a few cases of ophthalmia, resulting from the continual glare of the snow, the health of the crews was satisfactory, and this was no little satisfaction to the leaders of the expedition, compelled as they were to be continually on the _qui-vive_. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
The arrival of the corpse in Philadelphia and New York was, in a great measure, concealed from the populace through the strenuous efforts of the police; and, though crowds were on the qui-vive to receive with honor the sacred relics, the activity and vigilance of the police succeeded in keeping it a profound secret from the many. ❋ Unknown (1865)
Here were free-and-easy young landowners in embroidered jackets and grey trousers, with long curling hair and little waxed moustaches, staring about them with gentlemanly insolence; other noblemen in Cossack dress, with extraordinarily short necks, and eyes lost in layers of fat, were snorting with distressing distinctness; merchants sat a little apart on the _qui-vive_, as it is called; officers were chatting freely among themselves. ❋ Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1850)
