Definition of "alertly"
alertly
adverb
comparative more alertly, superlative most alertly
In an alert manner; with alertness.
Quotations
Behind one of the old oaks which we have described in the preceding chapter, shrouding himself from observation like a hunter watching for his game, or an Indian for his enemy, but with different, very different purpose, Tyrrel lay on his breast near the Buck-stane, his eye on the horse-road which winded down the valley, and his ear alertly awake to every sound which mingled with the passing breeze, or with the ripple of the brook.
1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], chapter 9, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.