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Example sentences for "sharp lookout"

  • Keep a sharp lookout, and don't allow yourself to be surprised.

  • Forthwith, then, the two young men went aboard Van Dusen's yacht, and a few minutes later the vessel was under way, with instructions to the master to hug the New Jersey shore while keeping a sharp lookout for The Isabel.

  • Whenever a halt is made one or two members of the patrol must advance a short distance ahead and keep a sharp lookout to the front and flanks.

  • I then post Brown under cover of the trees along the lane where he can look down the road as far as possible and I tell him, "Brown, you are to take post here, keeping a sharp lookout to the front and flanks.

  • He moves up the ravine, keeping a sharp lookout to the front, and moving rapidly until abreast, if he has fallen behind.

  • It was answered from our side and--thinking that it might be someone trying to swim across--I fired a round of grape into the Germans, and ordered a sharp lookout to be kept.

  • Keep a sharp lookout, and look at the compass.

  • Keep a sharp lookout for us, we will hoist two lights, one above the other, to prevent your mistaking any fishing boat which may be coming along for us.

  • Their galleys keep a sharp lookout at night, and you certainly would not have succeeded in passing them, had you not hit upon this plan of carrying your boat over.

  • They are sure to keep a sharp lookout as they go along.

  • Gibbons, you had better keep a sharp lookout on your own account.

  • I will keep a sharp lookout, sir, never you fear.

  • That is where the real danger will be; still you had better keep a sharp lookout on the man forward.

  • If you are through, Chris, take your gun and go down to the landing and keep a sharp lookout.

  • The convicts remained hidden behind the wall and there was nothing to do but to keep a sharp lookout.

  • You'll have to keep a sharp lookout to guard against any possible surprise from wild animals or men.

  • I was afeared of something of this sort, and I told you to keep a sharp lookout on her.

  • D’ye keep a sharp lookout,” called Dred to him.

  • Jack went over beneath the open window, and called to her in the same whispering voice he had used before, Dred waiting the while at the corner of the house, keeping a sharp lookout.

  • You keep a sharp lookout now,” he said, “and the best pair of eyes sees the turkeys first.

  • They knew there was a strong force of redcoats over to their left hand, however, and so they kept a sharp lookout in that direction as they fell back.

  • The youth would pass within two or three hundred yards of the left wing of the attacking British, and he kept a sharp lookout in that direction, for he did not want to get shot by any of the British soldiers.

  • However, the captain always keeps a sharp lookout after us when we get to these islands, for he half-suspects that one or two o' us are tired of his company.

  • We know the corvette is off the coast, and keeping a sharp lookout for us.

  • He was well armed, and he kept a sharp lookout around as he wended his way through the bit of woods he had to traverse, for he well knew that he had deadly enemies, and there was no telling where nor when they might strike.

  • I went on, then, keeping a sharp lookout to right and left and straight ahead, and every now and then stopping to listen.

  • It was our business to stay where we were and to keep a sharp lookout.

  • We avoided the fields and roads, and stuck to the woods, keeping a sharp lookout ahead, but going rapidly.

  • He also told us that several mud-pools, which seemed to have been recently and violently stirred up, were caused by the wallowing of the rhinoceros; so we kept at all times a sharp lookout for a shot.

  • We had to keep a sharp lookout, and once or twice discharged our rifles in the direction of the nearest sounds, not in the expectation of hitting any of the animals, but for the purpose of scaring them away.

  • Nevertheless we resolved to keep a sharp lookout, and be prepared for the worst.

  • Then he thought of running up to Leith, and so take the Frenchmen prisoners; but this idea was at once discarded, for it was impossible to pass up to Leith Roads without seeing the Bell Rock light, and the Frenchmen kept a sharp lookout.

  • He told the driver to await his return, and getting out of the hack, walked slowly down the street, keeping a sharp lookout on the house she went into.

  • He took a seat in the rear end of the car immediately in front of the ladies' car, whence he could keep a sharp lookout on all that went on.

  • On my arrival, I selected Mr. Rivers as the best man to go to Jenkintown, and lie quietly in wait, keeping a sharp lookout on the movements of Mrs. Maroney.

  • He seldom went into the express office, as, although he knew the employés well, he felt that when he called they kept a sharp lookout on his movements, and he did not appreciate such courtesy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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