Together they descend the stairs leading down to the machinery, and, when the key hangs in its old place, they both rush out into the open air as if pursued by furies.
Side by side the various "runs" open out before him.
The handle of the taproom door rattles in his hand; one push--it flies open wide.
The jasmine and guelder-rose bushes appear as though covered with white foam; the spring roses open their chalices, and the limes are putting forth their buds already.
She was holding it over the fire, and had already made the vellum covers curl wide open like the shells of an afflicted oyster.
The practice was the herald of the French and may open the way for the English Revolution.
In 1652 the Parliament decreed the confiscation of the splendid library of Mazarin, which was perhaps the first free library in Europe,--the first that was open to all who were worthy of right of entrance.
He went out two or three times upon an elevated terrace, or rather large open platform, on the level of the apartment we were in to see the illuminations of the gardens.
Open Chimney Fire-places on the most approved principles will be fitted up as models in the different rooms, and fires will be kept constantly burning in them during the cold season.
You would destroy the value of the labour of the industrious; by laying open his invention you would take away the great stimulus to exertion.
In his opening lecture he thus spoke of electro-chemistry and its power of analysis: 'In this it will be seen that Volta has presented to us a key which promises to lay open some of the most mysterious recesses of nature.
It was proposed to openit to the proprietors and subscribers early in the ensuing season.
The wood fire and the lamp in the kitchen shone from the open door, and gleaming through the night seemed a bitter mockery of welcome to the two lads.
The boys' blood began to boil, for they could get no shot at all at any of their assailants, and they themselves were quite open to attack.
During the last few words, unseen by either of the two men, Foster had been standing by the door that Crosby had left partly open when he came into the room.
As Alec looked over the edge of the precipice he saw the deathly face of his brother beneath him with strained, wide open eyes with a ghastly look of terror in them, gazing straight up at him.
Alec walked along the verandah till he reached the room that he and George occupied in common, and entering at the wide open window he found the match-box and struck a light.
But the pouring rain which beat upon his upturned face when next they crossed a stretch of open ground seemed to revive him, for with a mighty effort he pulled himself together and sat up.
The two windows were thrown wide open to the night, and the cool odorous breeze just stirred the light curtains that hung before them.
But the Operation is, performed in a Crucible, from the beginning to the end, in anopen Fire.
O my Friend, answered he, you very accurately affect to know all things, yet I will open this to you; The Charge is not great, nor is the Time long.
But, in the mean while, do you invoke the most Wise God, to whose Vigilant Eyes I commend you, which are always open upon his Sons, regenerated to him by Christ.
Marty had shot through the corridor of the car and the open compartments to the rear.
Before anopen cellarway stood a ragged and barefooted soldier.
One evening Marty heard somebody drive into the yard after supper and he ran hurriedly to open the porch door.
Most of the buildings in sight were one-room dwellings of adobe, with an open shed at the back built of four corner posts supporting a thatch roof, on which peppers were still sunning, late as was the season.
Janice ran across the open porch and into the sitting room.
There he clawed open the door and stepped out upon the observation platform.
They crouched together by the open door of the car and heard the bullets sing past.
She seen 'em through the slats an' didn't darest open the door.
The door of the office-car was flung openand the Madam suddenly appeared.
Janice didn't say a thing about Marty in her letter," and he pointed to an open letter on the table.
Knowing that her uncle would absolutely forbid her departure for the Border if she told him she was going, Janice would notopen any discussion with him.
Nobody could unlock and open that door without disturbing him; but the chill morning air awoke him in plenty of season.
There it might be attached to some train going to El Paso, for the railroad was open again to the Border, the government troops patrolling all that part of Chihuahua.
At El Paso Nelson had learned the railroad was open once more and that a government force was assigned to join General Palo's division at the mines beyond San Cristoval.
When it rains, the people opentheir umbrellas and tie them on top of their hats.
Then they bake the bread on hot iron plates or in anopen oven.
In their kitchens they have open fireplaces, with fires blazing brightly.
This basket is round and long, and open at the top and bottom.
In every large town they have an open market place with shops around it.
Even now, in the open air, with her cumbersome and shapeless fur coat and trousers and boots and vast hood, the beauty of her face was at least apparent; but her figure had to be taken on trust.
At last we reached an open place in a safe region, and sat down, blown and hot, to cool off and nurse our scratches and bruises.
The house held its breath while he slit the envelope open and took from it a slip of paper.
Yesterday there were three pints of bread-crumbs; this morning the little bag is found open and some of the crumbs are missing.
When I was about to put it in an envelope I was called into my back office, and without thinking I left the paper lying open on my desk.
He was lying on his back, with his arms abroad; his mouth was openand his chest heaving with long gasps, and his white shirt-front was all splashed with blood.
Think--in this battered Caravanserai, Whose Portals open stand all Night and Day, How Microbe after Microbe with his Pomp Arrives unasked, and comes to stay.
An unfaithful sailor had disobeyed the rules and gone into the booby-hatch with an open light to draw some varnish from a cask.
I move that you open them all and read every signature that is attached to a note of that sort--and read also the first eight words of the note.
It sounded like a lot of women in violent altercation, and then in a moment he saw what it was, for he came out upon an open square covered with market-stalls, and so crowded that one could scarcely get across it.
With a hand whose trembling he could not control, Stewart toreopen the envelope and unfolded the note within.
I wish you would open the bags," she said, in her natural voice.
He tore the envelope open and read its contents eagerly.
At last the bags were empty, and, taking up his knife, he proceeded to rip open the linen linings and look under them.
Somebody might pass--besides, I do not care to sleep on the ground-floor of a strange house in a strange town, with an open window overlooking the street!
You will have to get out," said the man in German, and tried to open the door.
The man was in uniform, and the sergeant, ripping open coat and shirt, drew out the little identifying tag of metal which hung about his neck, broke it from its string, and thrust it into his pocket.
Before the car had stopped, Hans, with a disregard of the regulations which proved how excited he was, had wrenched open the door of the first compartment and clambered aboard.
The doors behind him were thrown open and the officers sprang out and hurried forward.
So open I throws my sample case right across the end of his desk.
As the Sultan spoke, the doors swung open and there entered an aged Turk, in a flowing gown and coloured turban, with a melancholy yellow face, and a long white beard that swept to his girdle.
We passed across theopen plaza, and went down a narrow side road, bordered here and there with adobe houses, and so out into the open country.
He was soon seated in the privacy of his own cabin, with Violet's letteropen in his hand.
But you must be very weary, and I want you now to go and take some exercise in the open air.
Evelyn sat in an easy-chair at the farther side of the room, her face hidden in her hands, an open letter lying in her lap.
But no; you must take your accustomed exercise in the open air.
He seemed to have found the passage he sought; and, keeping the book open with his left hand, he turned to her as she stood at his right.
There was a simultaneous burst of delight from the three, as he threw open the door, and ushered them in.
Violet's agonized cry, as she came rushing from the open doorway, "My baby!
Max heard them, and threwopen the parlor-door just as they reached it.
I was delighted to come anyhow," she answered gayly, as she threw aside the latter garment, and took possession of an easy-chair beside the open fire.
The smoke issues by the open extremity of the hut.
He heated stones in the open fire, and with these stones he cooked his meat and vegetables.
Excellent boat-builders, they merely do a coasting trade, and while understanding well how to handle a sail, rarely ever venture into the open sea.
As for fame, what is that to one who sees an open grave before him?
As sure as the sun shines, my old Barbet and Monsieur Metivier have promised me five hundred to keep my eyes open for them.
When he reached the rue Notre-Dame des Champs at the point where it joins the rue de l'Ouest he was amazed to find (neither of these streets being paved at the time of which we write) great mud-holes in that fine open quarter.
Godefroid, glad of the interruption, having got all he wanted to know out of Madame Vauthier, went to open it.
As Godefroid contemplated that frail fragment of woman he forgot the surrounding elegancies of the room, and fancied himself beneath the open heavens.
She stuck her needles into her hair, held her work in her hand, and rose to open the door of a salon which looked out on the inner court.
The two men passed along the rue Massillon beside the church and crossed the open space in front of it.
After that he stepped out, paused on the doorstep, and fired defiantly at the open gate of the stockade.
For all his hiding out it was quite likely that there was a secret line of communication open between his shifting sanctuary and his home.
That clan-signal of the Stacys along the ridges meant war--open and unmitigated war.
Heretofore, it had been a condition of openwar or one of acknowledged, even if precarious, peace.
The open trap of the loft bristled with rifle mouths.
The door was thrown promptly open and Lone Stacy appeared, framed between threshold and lintel, holding a lamp aloft and offering welcome.
The windows were open and the street noises, after the still whispers of the mountains, seemed to beat on his senses with discordant insistence.
His place, he pointed out, was open to all comers--the law required that he extend its entertainment to every man who paid the price.
One evening report drifted in to the Quarterhouse that some one had seen Bear Cat Stacy at a point not far distant, and that he had been boldly walking the open road--unaccompanied.
He realized that he ought to be going on, yet he lingered and after a few moments he spoke again, confiding his secrets to the open woods and the arching skies--his only confidants.
Under a blow that dropped him unconscious and bleeding from a face laid open as if by a shod hoof, Towers collapsed, scattering red embers as he fell.
It was a good-humored laugh, since this was not the time for open enmity.
And I have need to keep them open I am sorry to say.
She heard him say: "Father," and in the next instant she saw the old man open his arms and the officer rush to embrace him.
It has not rained for some time," retorted the stranger, who proceeded to open a second door which led into a vast court-yard open to the blue vault of heaven.
And he smiled too--he is a very handsome fellow--and desired me most pressingly to open the door as he had something of the greatest importance to say to me.
He waited for her to openon the real subjects that had brought him there.
What might not his life have been by her side, a life lived in open honour!
The Professor strode under the archway, his feet echoing in the stillness, and passed over the open space, which was brilliantly lit with the hectic radiance of arc lamps.
He was church warden, and intimately concerned in all the parochial business, while his purse was always open at Father Ripon's request.
He went to open the door, and Father Ripon, his new vicar, came in like a whirlwind.
If this thing is to become open talk, then let us have it so.
The dinner-gong boomed at eight and Ripon went down into the great hall, where a group of people were standing round an open fire of peat and coal.
The Professor's feet echoed loudly on the flags as he approached the open space.
Gortre's words began to open up to them an entirely new train of thought.
But still it was very little, and it meant long delay, if she could provide no other key to open this dark door.
But on this morning Spence did not feel inclined to open the packet.
There was a sudden furious knocking on the outer door of the chambers, and he went to open it.
He turned under a stone archway to the right, pushed open a door, and entered the museum.
An open volume of Renan stood by her side; here and there the lady deftly paraphrased a few lines.
The lock had been kept well oiled, for Billy Priske entered it twice daily; in the morning, to open a window or two, and at sunset, to close them.
By noon the hut was clean, at any rate tolerably clean; but its soaked floor would certainly take many hours in drying, and Nat must spend another night under the open sky.
In sum, it was vegete quick and lively; open as the day, untainted as the morning, full of the innocence and sprightliness of youth; it gave the soul a bright and a full view into all things.
That hatchet-faced Prince Camillo chose him out for a guide to me--" Billy paused, with his mouth open for a bite.
The door of grace, my friend, stands ever open to him who knocks.
Deeper than the tall forests behind it the macchia will hide two lovers, and under the open sky hedge off all the world but their passion .
For in the first place thirty men, or thirty thousand, of whom only one can open his mouth, are, for proselytizing, equal to one man and no more.
Souse I plunged and deep, with wide-open eyes, chose out and grasped my pebble, and rose to the surface holding it high as though it had been a gem.
And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
There is no doubt that the rich and great have in most cases a large sphere of usefulness open to them; and they are fatally blind, if they neglect it.
Class Some persons may object to encouraging anything like refinement amongst the operatives; and others, who would hardly object in open terms, find it difficult to reconcile themselves to the idea of it.
Scientific men will tell you that you may track a fever along the windings of an open drain.
Now an open space near a town is one of nature’s churches: and it is an imperative duty to provide such things.
Here it is, that by far the largest field is open for endeavour: here, that neglect is most injurious.
What avails it to trim the lights of history, if they are made to throw no brightness on the present, or open no track into the future?
All that is prominent, all that acts, must lay itself open to shallow criticism.
The estrangement of the Governor and the Factor had developed into open antagonism.
The new-comer did not wait for the customary answer to his salutation, but pushed the door open and entered hurriedly.
In fact one way or another I am certainly coming in touch with the leading men in England, and when I open my window at night I can see the light that burns in the clock-tower above the Houses of Parliament.
It was long before he could bring himself to go back to his lodging and when he did so he found that the street door would not open to the key he carried in his pocket.
How changed the old world was when he emerged at length into the light of open day!
Thora lay high on the pillow, with her eyes open and her parted lips smiling, as if she had just awakened from a beautiful dream.
When the procession reached the cemetery the rain was coming down in torrents and even the priest put an overcoat over his cassock, but Oscar stood uncovered by the open grave.
But having Thora's letter in his hands at last Oscar was afraid toopen it.
Although it was only two hours since he had pushed open the guest-room window and left the Inn-farm, he was already a stronger and braver man.
Instead of the old open boats we have sixty smacks, manned by twenty men apiece, and going as far as six days out and home again.
He came up with wood for the stove and Thora heard his voice, so now they are talking through the open door.
The birds still sing in the leafy tree That shadows the open door; We heed them not, for we think of the voice That we shall hear no more.
Throw open wide your golden gates, O poet-landed month of June, And waft me, on your spicy breath, The melody of birds in tune.
I fain would tread your garden walks, Or in your shady bowers recline; Then open wide your golden gates, And make them mine, and make them mine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
