be on the qui vive

That child's had to be on the qui vive all her life.

The busy barrister is on the qui vive all the time.

Now we are on the qui vive for the first aeroplane."

We were on the qui vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat.

The colonists were on the qui vive, and did not leave their post at the Chimneys.

A feeling of the drawing room as a minefield, in which one must always be on the qui vive, pervades everything she says.

"You must be on the qui vive, Peabody.

The first guard was on the qui vive for the outfit whose camp-fire they had sighted the night before.

At once the instinct of the informer, of the sleuthhound, was on the qui vive.

If the enemy were on the qui vive, they would immediately observe on their instruments that another vessel orbited here.

"Be on the qui vive!"

The expressive Art Deco facades towards Sakaru Street are on the qui vive.

At once Sir Andrew Ffoulkes, my Lord Tony and Lord Hastings were on the qui vive.

In each, the viewer was on the qui vive, perhaps unable always to distinguish the lyrics but alert to the symbiosis Mr. Morris sets up between singers and dancers.

"Be on the Qui Vive: Cowans, Swindlers, and Con Men, Then and Now," Scottish Rite Journal, (May-June, 2009).

We accordingly continued our search for hippopotami; these animals appeared to be on the qui vive, and, as the hunters once more failed in an attempt, I made a clean shot behind the ear of one, and killed it dead.

But then she is reeled in by her cousin, Owen Roe, a loathsome Dublin politico who is on the qui vive for Provo terrorists and not about to let any woman spoil his run up to power with scandalous goings-on.