Every hour of the voyage seemed burdened with novelty, and ceaseless vigilance possessed every faculty.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Idris, with fear, thought that when provisions should be lacking it would be imperatively necessary to send men to purchase supplies at the villages on the river banks, and then these men, in view of the aroused vigilance and reward offered for the capture of the fugitives, might easily fall into the hands of the local sheiks,-and betray the whole caravan.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
And since, in consequence of their action and vigilance, the rate of wages in the trades they represent may be now taken as usually standing close to its superior limit, the chief hope of any further substantial improvement in the future must now be placed in the possibility of raising that limit by an increased productivity.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae