"Je n'en sais rien--ne vous laissez pas aller a de vives impressions--voila tout."
I laughed: a sentiment of exquisite pleasure played over my nerves at the thought that "vives impressions" were likely to be created; it was the deadness, the sameness of life's daily ongoings that had hitherto been my bane; my blouse-clad "eleves" in the boys' seminary never stirred in me any "vives impressions" except it might be occasionally some of anger.
Augustus Caesar died in a compliment; Livia, conjugii nostri memor,
vive et vale.
"Qui vive?" demanded a stern, quick voice, which sounded like a challenge from another world, issuing out of that solitary and solemn place.
"Qui vive?" repeated the same voice, which was quickly followed by the rattling of arms, and a menacing attitude.
The soldiers, on seeing him, lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, "
Vive l'Empereur!" Napoleon's proclamation was as follows:
He sat like a man who is perpetually on the qui
vive. A furtive light shone in his eyes, he was manifestly uncomfortable.
"Vive le Roi!" cried all the officers of the household with frantic enthusiasm, and M.
He had all his life been obliged to hear, or rather to undergo this cry of "Vive le Roi!" which passed over him.
We were on the qui
vive till daylight, and prepared for the combat.
Thus, without waiting to be marshaled, the soldiers will be constantly on the qui
vive; without waiting to be asked, they will do your will; without restrictions, they will be faithful; without giving orders, they can be trusted.
"We're pretty well forward here and we have to keep on the qui
vive. We got some shells yesterday dropped within a quarter of a mile of us.