I cannot call at any house where there are daughters but, the instant I knock, every balcony near me is filled with waves of rustling muslin, and a dozen pairs of bright eyes are on the qui Vive for every movement or expression.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
I say we must go, because I promised the excellent Adolphine not to leave you, and, Vive Dieu!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
It must have been towards morning that a few words were uttered in Chumbley's boat; there seemed to him, as he immediately became on the qui Vive, to be a quickening of the rower's strokes, the rustling of bushes, some twigs of one of which brushed his arm, and then they ascended, as far as he could judge, a narrow stream for a short distance, for the oars kept striking bushes or reeds on either side; and now the boat that held Hilton had evidently come up close behind.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn