"Qui vive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... proved a fascinating study. She showed no interest in the outside world and rarely glanced from the car window, but her naive curiosity concerning their fellow passengers and friendly familiarity toward them kept him constantly on the qui vive. ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant
... them no time to prepare a program. She came hurriedly down stairs, obviously anxious, openly with every nerve on the qui vive, and they saw at once that she had been crying. Her hair was damp about her forehead as if from hasty ablution. She looked from one to another of her callers with a frightened glance that went beyond them as if looking for others to come, as ...
— The City of Fire • Grace Livingston Hill
... masseurs. A summer boarder may be quite at home on a farm, and safe from all ordinary dangers, but he must keep out of the way of scythes and sickles if he chooses to haunt the hay-fields. And so Attaphila, snug and safe, deep in the heart of the nest, had to keep on the qui vive when the ant harvesters came to glean in the fungus gardens. Snip, snip, snip, on all sides in the musty darkness, the keen mandibles sheared the edible heads, and though the little Attaphilas dodged and ran, ...
— Edge of the Jungle • William Beebe |
