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On the alert

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on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

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He did everything with an air which put your attention on the alert and raised your expectations, but the result somehow was always on stereotyped lines, unsuggestive, empty of any lesson that one could lay to heart.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
In an instant I was on the alert, for there could be no wood within that buried river that had not been man brought.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
He seemed like a man on wires, a man on the alert, likely to miss nothing.
The Vanished Messenger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context
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