watchfulness

Persevering constancy ( "perseverance") and (that is, exhibited in) supplication are to be the element in which our watchfulness is to be exercised. for all saints -- as none is so perfect as not to need the intercessions of his fellow Christians.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

She had failed in watchfulness before (So 1: 6); now when converted, she is the more jealous of subtle sins (Ps 139: 23).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

If food is indeed an issue, your watchfulness is your only prayer, so change nothing.

Elena Brower: Art of Attention: Eat, Pray, Love. In That Order. 2010

If food is indeed an issue, your watchfulness is your only prayer, so change nothing.

Art of Attention: Eat, Pray, Love. In That Order. 2010

That this should come to him in spite of his watchfulness was a bitter thing.

Jack of the Pony Express Frank V. Webster

Alexander Filmore came to us and attempted to assassinate us, but my watchfulness was a match for his villainy, and we escaped death at his hands.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

His watchfulness was the observation of a man who learns from all he sees.

The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Ridgwell Cullum 1905

He comforted himself, mistakenly, that his watchfulness was the cause that the French had abandoned the attempt against Egypt in force.

The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897

He comforted himself, mistakenly, that his watchfulness was the cause that the French had abandoned the attempt against Egypt in force.

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877

He not only loved but understood all the creatures, divining by an operation in which neither the sympathy nor the watchfulness was the less perfect that both were but half conscious, the emotions and desires informing their inarticulate language.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864