| 1. | Plenteous, well-armed, watching with vigilant eyes. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | sun, the mother never turning her vigilant eyes from them. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The kingly crowned head, the vigilant eye. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | A very large mastiff seemed to be in vigilant attendance upon these animals, each and all. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 6. | He devoted himself during the remainder of the evening to keeping a most vigilant watch on Mrs. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 7. | No doubt the thought that was uppermost in a thousand of those vigilant minds, even as it was uppermost in mine, was the riddle--how much they understood of us. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 8. | "Thou art so near the sum of blessedness," Said Beatrice, "that behooves thy ken Be vigilant and clear. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 9. | Fortunately we have the great cardinal his vigilant eye watches over and penetrates to the bottom of the heart.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |