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
One can open one's eyes, one can breathe, one can look around him.
From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Ah, my friends, might one not learn it at once, if one would but open one’s eyes and look at things as they are?
From Sermons for the Times by Kingsley, Charles
It is bad enough to open one's eyes at 6:30 on Monday morning.
From Cheerful—By Request by Ferber, Edna
Travel and talk to foreigners open one's eyes to aggressive possibilities; history and its warnings become conceivable.
From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
