give one an idea

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These Egyptian things give one an idea of inexpressible ungainliness.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Only an intelligent study of a map of the city will give one an idea of its plan.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1884 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)

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

To give one an idea of the value of land in four or five of the principal provinces of the country, I must begin with the Queen Province, as it is called, viz.,

From Argentina from a British Point of View by Various