give one an idea
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All that one hears or reads of the extent of the Amazons and its tributaries does not give one an idea of its immensity as a whole.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various
Those numerous pine forests, denoting quiet, and the wide, wide canopy of Heaven, unbroken by mountain or hill, give one an idea of vast extent and wild expanse.
From Through Finland in Carts by Alec-Tweedie, Mrs. (Ethel)
These Egyptian things give one an idea of inexpressible ungainliness.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
The hills and beautiful lake in the drawing give one an idea of Cumberland.”
From Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Lansdown, Henry Venn
It was quite true that the grains of it were hard and sharp, so as to give one an idea that it would make good eating neither for women nor children.
From Castle Richmond by Trollope, Anthony
