Argus-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
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It is a transfixing beast, Argus-eyed and monolithic, pulsing with durable Kraftwerk beats, a monument to agitated awe.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2019
But Pan Am, grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run.
From Time Magazine Archive
And with a "Well," and a white-lipped smile and a glance at the Argus-eyed hotel, she held out her hand to me.
From The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Hence desperate efforts were made to deter him—efforts which did not escape the Argus-eyed Walsingham.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
The loveliest garden I know is spoilt to my thinking by the impossibility of getting out of sight of the house, which stares down at you, Argus-eyed and unblinking, into whatever corner you may shuffle.
From The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth
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