Argus-eyed
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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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
They were busy men in the vanguard of a quickened age, and theirs were its ardors, its Argus-eyed fancy and potent imagination.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
That turnest into pain thy father's joys, To evil Argus-eyed, but blind as mole to good.
From The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Williams, L.
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