The one is sagacious, argus-eyed; the other oracular, sibylline.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Those agency employes were argus-eyed, watching each move made by him and his assistants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

"And the best of all is that we are going to get the better of that argus-eyed Dragon!" said Cyn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

The intervening sea is one over which the most penetrating of argus-eyed policemen or sheriffs, can not see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870] Reference

Ruth passed Mrs. Bowers's argus-eyed bay window, as did Shelby, and Mrs. Grundy had her speculative pickings of the event.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Henchman] Reference

Generally, they pick up the essentials of the game from "Pop" long before they get to school or college or else are properly educated by an argus-eyed brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball] Reference

She had rehearsed that little speech over and over on her way to school; but, as usual, when she came to say it to this argus-eyed teacher, she juggled her pronouns so thoroughly that no one could have been sure just what she did mean.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

Indeed, when we remember the argus-eyed hatred with which the French priesthood is watched by the anti-clerical party, and the few scandals that appear in the public prints only too anxious to give publicity to them, this unimpeachable testimony is borne out by fact.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis] Reference

Contrary to all our expectations, instead of making our way at once to Yokohama we turned aside, and anchored at the naval arsenal of Yokusuka, on the opposite side of the bay, presumably for the purpose of making the ships presentable to the argus-eyed naval critics in Yokohama.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

For further knowledge, the public must be thankful that the argus-eyed tourist has not left the place unnoticed, and that the mathematically-inclined gazetteer has told us from time to time the number of Cleveland's churches, banks, and city councilmen, and other equally important facts!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884] Reference

Bishop of Aquila, the argus-eyed ambassador of Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series] Reference

The Capitol building gleamed, argus-eyed on the hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man in Gray] Reference

Miss Lois Daggett gazed about with argus-eyed curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Alabaster Box] Reference

His telephone message had thrown a cordon of argus-eyed men around New.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voice in the Fog] Reference

Do so, and if you were argus-eyed into the bargain, I'd marry him before to-morrow morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Love in '76 An Incident of the Revolution] Reference

No argus-eyed debater objected by any amendment to the discontinuance of the silver dollar.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference

Here was a chance of communicating with the enemy which would defy the argus-eyed gentlemen who examine the mails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Standfast] Reference

But, realizing the argus-eyed watch put upon her, and the forthright methods of her sister Madigans, she tried it secretly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Madigans] Reference

Above and behind this is an argus-eyed Fascist censorship from whose scrutiny no pamphlet, no paper, no magazine, no book can escape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mussolini and the New Italy] Reference

Our trunks in the main hall below were examined daily, and curiosity was more keenly excited when the argus-eyed reporters for the press traced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the scenes,] Reference

I prefer to be good because it is good to be good, rather than because I can't be bad because some argus-eyed old frump won't let me have a chance to be bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Logic of Youth] Reference

Our trunks in the main hall below were examined daily, and curiosity was more keenly excited when the argus-eyed reporters for the press traced Mrs. Lincoln's name on the cover of one of her trunks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House] Reference

He did not realise that the sand dune belonged to Eloise, and that she was wont to sit there with Doctor Conrad, out of the wind, and safely screened from the argus-eyed rocking-chairs on the veranda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flower of the Dusk] Reference

No correspondence is permitted between the mother, the guardian, the sister, or the friends of the young female in the Nunnery School, on either side, without the inspection of the argus-eyed agent of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published] Reference

He thought of the argus-eyed, keen-scented police, who, with the faintest clew, can trace out any footprint once made within the precincts of the far-spreading barriers; but could he drag his cousin's name before those public authorities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

Let women choose their mates, and they might go as plain as peahens; and men would strut about, displaying wattles, combs and argus-eyed plumes. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference

I prefer to be good because it is good to be good, rather than because I can't be bad because some argus-eyed old frump won't let me have a chance to be bad. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure] Reference

Their appetite for figs, dates, oranges and bananas and graft is insatiable; they are omnipresent; they are argus-eyed; and their speech is always, "Keep movin 'there.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Faces] Reference

A booth on the great thoroughfare, only to feel safe when she glided into Ram Lal Singh's jewel shop, to be swiftly hurried into the rear reception room by the argus-eyed merchant, who had noted the swiftly passing carriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference

Even the 'argus-eyed press' has no theory to offer. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Midnight Passenger : a novel] Reference

He was argus-eyed, omnipresent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Range Boss] Reference

Yet, argus-eyed, I watch and would discover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems of Sentiment] Reference

The detective is argus-eyed, and knows everybody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City] Reference

I became argus-eyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Malcolm] Reference

The argus-eyed greybeard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Lyrics] Reference