"Don't you do that," spoke up Mr. McBride alertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference

When he had left the room Tennelly sat up alertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

Period of Louis XVI -- lightly, alertly masculine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference

He sat up alertly and began to wag his entire body.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

Cyril responded by sitting up alertly, ready to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

This he did while the big, solemn eyes followed him alertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference

Natural secretiveness and craft make each alertly suspicious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

He had the appearance of alertly listening, listening, for what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Apartment Next Door] Reference

Thatcher looked up alertly at the reference to soft office living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder to Go]

Saïd sat up blinking sleepily and then leaped alertly to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

Then suddenly he straightened up and leaned from the window alertly!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

"Don't hamper me, dear," said Garrison, watching the Robinsons alertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Husband by Proxy] Reference

His maggots squirmed alertly in its sunken eyes as it turned to depart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centaur Aisle]

The alertly watching guards relaxed their tense vigilance in obvious relief.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

They could not return to the main channel, for the dragon paced them alertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centaur Aisle]

"I guess you can," the proprietor had answered, standing alertly on his guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

She glanced up alertly, breaking off her innocent melody, but could not see him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

Hugh abandoned his tower of wooden blocks unfinished, and came alertly to his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heretic's Apprentice]

He looked up alertly from a chart before him in the Academy spaceport control tower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stand by for Mars!] Reference

He listened alertly to catch any sound that would tell him that the others were awake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men Called Him Master] Reference

He bent over the little boy alertly, grasped the wrist, and stopped the spurt of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Witness] Reference

Yet she knew intuitively that he was alertly conscious of the quiet perfection of it all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

"Mr. Guinness is not at home, but he left the book," said Kitty, alertly climbing the steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

And when at last he opened his eyes he was as alertly awake as he had been profoundly asleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference

The Kuzak twins stood alertly, as if an extra special homecoming football game was in prospect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

And just then, as a clear "Father" came floating down the stairway, he turned his head alertly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prudence Says So] Reference

“Show me the way, Cyril,” I said hopefully, and he looked around alertly and then sat down.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

Shawnee's ears went forward alertly, but Drew did not need that signal of someone's approaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference

Grosvenor Gardens, Dutch Fred loitered, his keen, ferret eyes wandering alertly over passers-by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grell Mystery] Reference

The agent sat up alertly, as his employer, wagging a ponderous forefinger impressively, proceeded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Gold] Reference

"No, I've never been an editor," Morgan returned, speculating alertly on what might be forthcoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trail's End] Reference

The Roman guards peered alertly from the Tower of Antonia, but now all had become quiet below them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men Called Him Master] Reference

How alertly the master salesman listens to casual gossip that holds a clue which may lead to a sale!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Certain Success] Reference

He sprang up, quickly and alertly, like a strong young man, and went to meet her with his gallant air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Round Anvil Rock A Romance] Reference

He was alertly conscious again, but his head ached, and he felt reluctant, even unable, to open his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Millennium] Reference