Uncle Braddock, while Aunt Judy opened her eyes and her mouth, simply because she could not open her ears any wider than they were.
I entered the front, passed through the office, and came to the alley between two rows of stalls that ran the length of the building and opened out on the other street.
Our own rule was to hit a man as soon as he opened his mouth--hit him hard, hit him with anything.
But to return to the woman in Reno who opened her door to me in the deepening twilight.
And just then there came a thundering smash on the big doors that opened on the back street.
I opened the door the shack had latched, climbed in, and closed it behind me.
I opened it, dropped to the ground, and closed it behind me.
The porch windows opened on the dining room, and through them I saw a man eating pie--a big meat-pie.
He opened the door, he climbed up, he called, he threw coal into the hole I had made.
The reign of the Bourbon dynasty had opened auspiciously.
Caesar opened up a pathway for the old civilizations of the world to flow into Western Europe, and the sodden mass of barbarism was infused with a life-compelling current.
Robespierre was dragged wounded and shivering to the fate he had brought upon so many thousands, the drama which had opened at the Bastille was fittingly closed.
In the Rue Louise the door of Raoul's house opened directly into the kitchen.
The old verger opened the door, extinguished his torch, and we stood once more in the outside night, under the stars and the sky.
At last the right dooropened and down the steps came a very sober-looking and unconscious lady.
It was not until late at night that she remembered and opened the little packet.
He closed his eyes, as if invoking a vision, put on a very solemn expression, and then opened them with a wide stare into vacancy.
Gladys, though she had been partly unconscious, while in the water, was really unharmed and as Mr. Rose held her to him she opened her eyes and smiled.
Just as she finished arraying herself, Dotty was pounding on the door and she immediately opened it.
No reference was made as to why she wanted to take the train, in fact the subject was not touched on, and Mr. Briggs was entertaining her with a funny story when the door opened and Mr. Rose walked in.
Dotty opened her mouth to speak but changed her mind and gave voice to the wildest kind of a shriek.
Deliberately she opened a little chatelaine bag that hung at her belt and took from it a ten dollar gold piece.
The Erle of Ergyle and his men wer the first that stopped the fleying of our men, and compelled the Porte to be opened efter that it was schoot.
Butt then it was refuissed by the prudent and stowt counsall of the Lard of Grange,[202] who openedclearly to the King the practise of the Prelattis, and the danger that thairof mycht ensew.
A hurried examination of the interior of the craft showed that some sea water had leaked into the storage batteries from a sea cock, opened probably by Dr.
He went to a small cabinet set in the wall of the cabin, and when it was openedthere was disclosed a dial, not unlike that of a clock, with a movable pointer in the centre.
Mr. Sheldon opened a case that he took from his pocket.
He opened a sliding door that led from the compartment, which seemed to be as much a reception room as anything else.
Oh, it isn’t a question of actually sinking,” called Ned, as he opened the gas valve to the limit.
Baldissera opened negotiations with the negus through Major Salsa, and simultaneously reorganized the Italian army.
It is desirable in the first place to realize the condition of Italy at the time when the irruption of the French and the expulsion of the Austrians opened up a new political vista for that oppressed and divided people.
Early in the year the crown prince Humbert with the Princess Margherita took up their residence in the Quirinal Palace, which, in view of the Vatican refusal to deliver up the keys, had to be opened by force.
The practical annihilation of the old Right in the elections of 1876 opened a new parliamentary era.
At the close of a day of victory he was reconnoitring the hostile positions when suddenly the Confederate outposts opened fire upon his staff, whom they mistook in the dark and tangled forest for Federal cavalry.
On the other hand, they suffered from the rigorous measures of the continental system, which seriously crippled trade at the ports and were not compensated by the increased facilities for trade with France which Napoleon opened up.
Thrusting a hand into a pocket he drew forth a leather case and opened it with unsteady fingers.
Stacy opened his eyes as he saw the captain striding into camp.
He was at that instant threatening to break Chunky's head if he opened his mouth again before they reached the camping place.
There the fat boy very carefully deposited his 'possum bag, first having opened the mouth of it, after which he slipped away to his own tent and crawled into bed.
KEGEL, two young men between twenty and twenty-five years of age, have knocked at the door and then opened it.
FLAMM [Who has opened the desk in obvious absentmindedness, observes BERND'S departure too late.
A tap is heard, the door to the hall is slightlyopened and the head of old BERND is seen.
The Barley Rig was still tossing violently and for a few moments after he opened his eyes, the lad who had slept on the outside of the bunk felt dazed.
Accordingly, Jack and the others kept out of sight as the door was opened and Captain Jameson stepped inside, but as the portal was left ajar, they could hear what went on within.
Jack opened it, and a messenger, upon ascertaining who he was, handed him a telegram.
He opened the door, motioned Schultz out, and turned a malevolent smile on the boy.
As he approached the opened door of the radio station, from which a flood of yellow light issued, he saw, or thought he saw, two lurking figures in the shadow of one of the boats.
Jack opened his mouth to speak, his lips moved, but he could utter no sound.
The next instant, the patent blocks opened and on the crest of the great comber Mr. Smallwood's boat, and the others, were swept off into the darkness.
Bill saw Tom pause before a door, which he opened very slowly.
I was aware of the Door being hurriedlie opened and shut, and a Man hasting forthe; but 'twas onlie mine Uncle.
He opened the box containing his rifles and ammunition, that they might both be armed against possible attack while at work, and then together they sought a location for their first night's sleeping place.
D'Arnot opened it and handed the letter back to Tarzan.
After two days' work, however, he succeeded in fashioning two massive hardwood hinges, and with these he hung the door so that it opened and closed easily.
As Jane opened her eyes to a realization of the imminent peril which threatened her, her brave young heart gave up at last its final vestige of hope.
Neither spoke, yet both knew before they opened the closed door what they would find beyond.
So limited was their vocabulary that Tarzan could not even talk with them of the many new truths, and the great fields of thought that his reading had opened up before his longing eyes, or make known ambitions which stirred his soul.
Soon the cool water revived him, and presently he opened his eyes to look in questioning surprise at D'Arnot.
It was on this sight that Jane Porter again opened her eyes.
In his hands was a primer opened at a picture of a little ape similar to himself, but covered, except for hands and face, with strange, colored fur, for such he thought the jacket and trousers to be.
Soon another opened his veins and drank his own blood.
He opened chests and cupboards, such as did not baffle his small experience, and in these he found the contents much better preserved.
It creaked noisily but there was no question that George succeeded and the door was being opened from within.
He expected the door to be opened at once and he waited confidently for a hail from the man who had just left him.
Almost unconsciously he had lowered his voice and although it was still daylight he was glancing nervously about him when he and John softly opened the rear door and stepped within the kitchen.
In response to his quick and energetic pull a door was opened and as Fred peered within he saw there was a small room perhaps six or seven feet square.
Almost desperate now, Fred dragged the boards from the corner in which he had discovered them and piling them up on the floor beneath the little window that opened upon the road he soon was able to look out upon the scene.
Fred followed obediently and soon found himself in the hallway from which openedseveral rooms.
Holding his lantern before him Mr. Sanders stopped when he arrived at the head of the stairway and examined the rooms that opened before him.
The window opened wider, noiselessly but quickly; then a hand, strong, shapely, pushed the curtains aside.
Walking quickly up the steps John Steele opened the door, murmured a perfunctory "Good night" and let himself in.
He opened the door of the wickerwork prison and a tiny thing flew out.
John Steele leaned back; the dying embers revealed a haggard face; his eyes half closed as if from lack of sleep but immediately opened again.
For some time nothing save these sounds was wafted to the listener; then a loud disappointed voice, sounding above another voice, came from a half-opened window.
Mr. Gillett with a knowing expression rose, took a volume from a bookcase and opened it.
The fire had overflowed its course; it had opened itself a channel amidst the furrows of the mountain.
Mascari opened his small eyes to their widest extent; the Prince, no less surprised, but far too well world-read even to show what he felt, laughed aloud.
The wife, tall and stout, with a prominent stomach, opened wide her terrified eyes and was ready to make her escape.
He got out of his armchair, openedthe door, and I saw a beautiful white tablecloth on a long table, round which three hussars in blue aprons were setting out the plates and glasses.
When she became enceinte, and it was known, the most particular people and the greatest sticklers opened their doors to her, as if she had been definitely purified by maternity.
As soon as they closed the trapdoor the old woman removed the ladder, then opened the outside door noiselessly and went back to look for more bundles of straw, with which she filled her kitchen.
The baron opened his travelling case, and improved his looks as much as possible.
The sister had opened his blouse and shirt, and was looking at a little blue hole in his chest, which was not bleeding any more.
It was broad daylight when Caravan openedhis eyes again.
During the penance Theodosius bitterly complained that the Church of God was opened to slaves and beggars, but to him was closed, and with it the gates of heaven.
Rocherus overhearing this, ordered that some wine should be given to her; but the butler said there was none unless he opened a new cask.
When Alaric, King of the Goths, besieged Rome the third time, in 410, the Salarian Gate was silently opened by his confederates inside at midnight, and the inhabitants were roused by the piercing sound of the Gothic trumpet.
He had thriceopened the Scriptures, and thrice they opened on the Passion of our Lord.
The saint, looking up, saw as it were the roof openedand a ray of light descending upon him.
In 1697 the cathedral was first opened with great pomp on a thanksgiving day for the Peace of Ryswick.
Polychronius presented a sealed paper, which was opened and read; it declared his creed, and that he had been commanded in a vision to hasten to Constantinople to prevent the Emperor from establishing heresy.
The body of Cuthbert had at first been buried in Lindisfarne Church, and when his coffin was opened eleven years after, he was found to be uncorrupt and perfect, more like a sleeping than a dead man.
The sixth century opened a sanguinary internecine feud between sects of the Church, and the first religious war was said to arise about the correct words of the Trisagion as used in the Church service in Constantinople.
A violent fever seized him, and he ordered his sister's tomb to be opened for him, and himself to be carried to the chapel of John the Baptist.
She opened the gateway in an outer defence of osier work and ditch which encompassed the little settlement.
So the night sped away, and when the gates of the castle opened at sunrise, the palmer passed through them and took the road for Lewes.
The king opened his griefs to them--griefs which only money could assuage.
In the forest; they were raving like madmen in the courtyard, and I opened the gates and let them out to cool their brains.
To Hubert the new life which opened before him was full of promise and delight; he seemed to have found a paradise far more after his own heart than Eden could ever have been: but it was otherwise with Martin.
A door or window must have beenopened and closed again.
Nottingham and Leicester, whence his great opponent derived his title, opened their gates to him.
The doors were opened one after another-- "Come and bear water; the palace is on fire!
He sent for the stranger, and Francis opened his heart to the mighty Pontiff.
So speaking, he opened the door of the vaulted chamber he called his "den.
The truth was, that Clover, who was a canny little mortal, had slipped across the room and opened the door just before putting her wishes in.
A warm wind was rustling the trees, which were covered thickly with half-opened leaves, and looked like fountains of green spray thrown high into the air.
When sheopened her eyes she was lying on the sofa in the dining-room.
It was splendid fun to go with Cornelia to her father's big shop, and have whole boxes of raisins and drums of figs opened for their amusement, and be allowed to ride up and down in the elevator as much as they liked.
She kept cotton petticoats over all the chairs for fear of dust, and never opened the blinds for fear of flies.
Spring opened late that year, but the Summer, when it came, was a warm one.
Her last sleepy thought was an intention to be an angel from that time on, and as much like Cousin Helen as she could; and when she opened her eyes she was all out of sorts, and as fractious as a bear!
A sub-office may be opened in the city of New York at an expense of not more than one thousand five hundred dollars a year.
Another industry had been one of the first opened to women, much of its work being done at home.
Every student organization to which he had belonged as an undergraduate opened its arms to welcome him as a faculty member; we chaperoned student parties till we heard rag-time in our sleep.
When I opened the door to our little Seattle apartment, there he was, walking the floor, looking as if the bottom had dropped out of the universe.
It was evident that he had, by a really abnormal effort of will, tried to recover consciousness, and now, when he opened his eyes, a spark of keen understanding was at last visible in his glance.
To Romashov was opened the whole abyss of practical wisdom that lay hidden in this simple picture that he had known and understood ever since he could read a book.
Curtains of the same stuff and colour flickered in the draught from the windows opened on a gloomy backyard.
A new world of marvels would be opened to human knowledge.
He crouched down before the old trunk, opened it, and began rummaging impatiently among a mass of old papers, during which he kept on talking.
The door was opened hastily and shut again with a loud bang.
His bleeding lips, welded together, slowly opened with a soft, smacking sound, but all he could utter was a hoarse rattle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opened" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
