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Hawk-eyed   /hɔk-aɪd/   Listen
adjective
Hawk-eyed  adj.  
1.
Having very keen vision; sharp-sighted; discerning.
Synonyms: keen-sighted, lynx-eyed, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted.
2.
Alert to possible danger.
Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, unsleeping, vigilant, wary, watchful.





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"Hawk-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books



... hawk-eyed. "But yes, m'sieu. Moose skin one time safe me so I don' freeze to death. But it hol' me so tight so I nearly don' get loose ...
— Joy in the Morning • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
... rooted in his nature. He is never tender, yet there is veiled sympathy in the ballet-girl series. Behind the scenes, in the waiting-rooms, at rehearsal, going home with the hawk-eyed mother, his girls are all painfully real. No "glamour of the foot-lights," generally the prosaic side of their life. He has, however, painted the glorification of the danseuse, of that lady grandiloquently described as prima donna assoluta. What magic he evokes as he pictures her floating down ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker
... only one out of hundreds of instances of the hawk-eyed vigilance of the governor-general. The vast provinces under his sway had never been ruled in this ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller
... better fitted to give an account of the interior of New York than General Schuyler; and the hawk-eyed Lee during a recent sojourn had made its capital somewhat of a study; but there was much yet for both of ...
— The Life of George Washington, Volume I • Washington Irving
... Hawk-eyed Sherman watches the glorious young general as he turns into the forest. A grim look settles on the general's face. He runs his eye over the map. As the tiger's approach is heralded by the clatter of the meaner animals, so from out ...
— The Little Lady of Lagunitas • Richard Henry Savage
... with a goatee, hawk-nosed and hawk-eyed, came down the street with jingling spurs to meet them. At sight of Ramona his eyes lighted. From his well-shaped gray head he swept in a bow a jaunty, ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine


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