What is "observant"

Usage examples of "observant".

Miss Ames, you are more observant of the good doctor than I would have thought possible, or do I flatter myself?

Though Doris is more knowledgeable of the trade, Nellie has been surprisingly observant during her short sojourn.

Benedict of Spoleto, Carthusians and Camaldolesi, Cistercians and Olivetans, Oratorians and Vallombrosans, and the friars of Augustine, Brigittines, Premonstratensians, Servi, Trinitarians, and the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of Dominic, the friars preachers, and the sons of Vincent: and the monks of S.

My father, Rav Berg, had been raised in a strictly observant Jewish environment in Brooklyn.

Well, there again we have the word of the observant Madame Croft that both Charles Vyse and Commander Challenger are in love with the young lady.

I felt it advisable to keep the latter individual under my observant eyes from now on.

They are discreet, reticent, observant, and on many subjects well informed, but they are of a type which has no antitype at home.

In the Den that evening there was one world within another, though only these two, and probably the intuitive and diabolically observant Minks, perceived it.

You, my lady prioress, are more observant that I would expect from a woman of your youth and vocation, he thought, and more than makes me comfortable.

Delessert could have fancied himself to have dropped in upon a quite modest evening entertainment, altogether en regle, but for one or two noticeable circumstances which his observant eyes quickly took in.

She was unusually observant lately, especially sensitive to trivia, to atmosphere.

London, and found their hitherto unexercised memories quite overtaxed by masters, who saw that the girls were quick, intelligent, and observant, with a great deal of practical knowledge quite unusual in England at their years, but absolutely devoid of all school acquirements.

Part of him was sad for the moth, but the rest was uninvolved, though alert and observant.

As observant of people as ever, Adams recorded his impressions in vivid, fragmentary notes of a kind kept by no other member of Congress.

Nasi had explained to him that maintaining kashrut required that the wine not be handled by anyone except observant Jews from the time the grapes were put into the bin to be pressed to the time it was poured into the glass.