What is "sharp-eyed"

Usage examples of "sharp-eyed".

Anyone sharp-eyed enough to have caught sight of the occupants of the Mercedes that evening as it sped through the centre of Fettlesham in the direction of Fettlesham Royal Infirmary would have thought they were hallucinating: an ageing German admiral with a handlebar moustache was at the wheel of the car, a heavily bemedalled SS officer was in the passenger seat, and an overweight nun with crimson lips and sky-blue eye-shadow was sitting in the back gesticulating.

AS the cab rolled along a street that fringed the lighted center of Chinatown, a sharp-eyed man noticed it.

Those muzzle flashes were picked up by a sharp-eyed gunner who radioed the convoy commander.

Her lore began to twitch against her skin, and she noticed sharp-eyed Uriah Scarpe glance at the wool at her throat.

Sometimes the vei sharp-eyed could count them, two and three motes at time, shining before dawn or before the dusk, in proxin ity to the foreign star.

And the very fact that his lordship insisted that he remain confined within the locked cage lest a fit of the sorcery-induced madness suddenly come upon him, that during emergences to wash his body and clothes in nearby bums and tiny lochs he be close guarded by sharp-eyed monks and brawny gillies, reassured Abbot Fergus enough of the poor, unfortunate, put-upon and gravely suffering man's good intentions that, upon request, he loaned his charge his razor and his precious bronze scissors that the earl might trim his beard and hair and : thy, cracked, and clawlike toe and fingernails.

Then there had been a baby mousebut Adzhika, Sosia's sharp-eyed pepper-spotted cat, had caught it and bitten its head off.

Certainly the sharp-eyed Altamont did not find the signs of life so stubbornly displayed by today's first hanged man at all perturbing.

Though his finely made dark blue woolen cloak with its silver clasps showed him to be a man of wealth, Antimodes wore that cloak with an air of confidence, riding with his back straight on his daintily stepping donkey, his head held high, his sharp-eyed gaze taking notice of every squirrel in the trees, every toad in the ruts.

And the very fact that his lordship insisted that he remain confined within the locked cage lest a fit of the sorcery-induced madness suddenly come upon him, that during emergences to wash his body and clothes in nearby burns and tiny lochs he be close guarded by sharp-eyed monks and brawny gillies, reassured Abbot Fergus enough of the poor, unfortunate, put-upon and gravely suffering man's good intentions that, upon request, he loaned his charge his razor and his precious bronze scissors that the earl might trim his beard and hair and filthy, cracked, and claw-like toe and fingernails.

If any enquiries were made by a sharp-eyed Press man, the explanation would be that they were nothing but routine snap searches.

Voker, grinning but sharp-eyed, got up and offered his hand when Varlik came in.

A sharp-eyed patrol ship on the outer expanse had forced them to identify themselves, so even their approach to Fortress Zgoda had not been peaceful and without identity.

In the grand reception rooms he felt himself whisked from knot to knot of sharp-eyed delegates, each with a question.

My humble thanks, Nesta, and my thanks to that sharp-eyed customs officer, too.