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On the alert

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

See also: Alert



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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.
In an instant I was on the alert, for there could be no wood within that buried river that had not been man brought.
He seemed like a man on wires, a man on the alert, likely to miss nothing.
 
 
 
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