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Example sentences for "own eyes"

  • He had done his work towards me or nearly so, when he had taught me to see with my own eyes and to walk with my own feet.

  • I saw it with my own eyes in a shop at Medina del Campo in Old Castile, where the Court was passing the winter; and to my great admiration I handled it and tested its weight.

  • I have seen with my own eyes a shapeless ingot similar to a round river stone, which was found by Hojeda, and was afterwards brought to Spain; it weighed nine ounces.

  • With my own eyes I once beheld a blind mendicant hanging by the neck from a fig tree, a bloody froth upon his lips.

  • It brings the tears to my own eyes to see them stream from thine.

  • Do you yourself go back, and leave me to do that which seems best in my own eyes.

  • Have you seen him with your own eyes, or do you repeat from hearsay?

  • But you, sir, have you seen this with your own eyes?

  • Has it not been tried at Courtrai, at Stirling, and again under my own eyes at Crecy, where the chivalry of France went down before our bowmen?

  • At that the tears forced themselves into my own eyes.

  • To my great surprise, Mr. Carvel sent for me to walk with him about the place, that he might see the damage with his own eyes.

  • With my own eyes I witnessed two able and cautious statesmen of a cautious province thrilled to the pitch of enthusiasm by this strange young man of eight and twenty.

  • And at his glorious entry into Philadelphia (where I afterwards saw the great man with my own eyes), Mr. Washington and his Federal-Aristocrats trembled in their boots.

  • If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I shouldn't have believed it.

  • Whatever may be the Baron's opinion upon the facility of taking, sword in hand, the fortifications of Portsmouth, I will not hazard any thing before I have considered the matter with my own eyes.

  • They have not as yet been reconnoitred by the Baron, and I think it therefore more necessary for me to see with my own eyes.

  • And sure, haven't I seen it with my own eyes, when I've been there charing?

  • I had lowered myself in my own eyes--but I had seen Lillian.

  • Jeff Davis was back in Richmond, as I had discovered with my own eyes.

  • It is folly in my own eyes, how much more so then in those of others, to whom the present is everything!

  • One of them said: "I have seen the great bird with my own eyes!

  • I saw it with my own eyes, but we must be still.

  • But next morning when I thought of Martin, as I always did on first awakening, I told myself that I would live and be a clean woman in my own eyes whatever the World might think of me.

  • But I was also degraded to the very dust in my own eyes, and to prevent an outburst of hysterical tears I ran back to my room and hid my face in my pillow.

  • I closed my own eyes in order to avoid his look.

  • But even if it justifies me in my own eyes, what matters it to me, since it does not give me any comfort?

  • The three women listened with such devoutness that it made me feel ridiculous in my own eyes.

  • Kromitzki never could have felt so small as I did in my own eyes when I committed a multitude of littlenesses, devised cunning plans to make him take separate lodgings and not stop in the same house with Aniela.

  • As regards myself, I am ready for everything, and the inward conviction that I am right justifies me in my own eyes.

  • I noticed a wonderful thing, which I should not believe had I not seen it with my own eyes.

  • I will tell you something else which I saw with my own eyes.

  • As God is true, I do not believe my own eyes yet.

  • May I fall down a corpse on this spot if with my own eyes I have not seen this done at least a hundred times, as well as other wonderful customs of theirs!

  • Oh, a defence the reality of which she can see with her own eyes will be dear to her.

  • For an instant I could not believe my own eyes.

  • I could hardly believe my own eyes when I saw that I had snapped off the cigar within half an inch of his lips.

  • Out on the shimmering sea I counted twelve boats with my own eyes, and knew that every one of them was full of cut-throats.

  • These things must be seen with a man's own eyes, heard with his own ears, to be understood and made real to him.

  • I crossed the plateau and saw the thing with my own eyes.

  • Whereof my own eyes (as I said a little before) had cognisance, one day among others, by the following experience.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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