open one's eyes
Example Sentences
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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"
From Time Magazine Archive
This view is inconceivably foolish, for it is necessary only to open one's eyes to see what a pitiful use is made of the power which man already possesses to create wealth.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Hertzka, Theodor
It is bad enough to open one's eyes at 6:30 on Monday morning.
From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna
It was very wicked to open one's eyes during prayer, he knew.
From The Silver Maple by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller
Thus the air was so thick with fine snow, driven along by the furious storm, that it became very difficult to breathe and almost impossible to open one's eyes even for a moment.
From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by Reese, H. B.
