TO MY FATHER (Whose feet tread the lost aeons) Open the door, And listen!

It seemed to come to my ears, now, with a sense of familiarity, and I opened my eyes.

There I found Tonnison standing within a small excavation that he had made among the débris: he was brushing the dirt from something that looked like a book, much crumpled and dilapidated; and opening his mouth, every second or two, to bellow my name.

You swing open the gate and crunch across the pebbles to the door.

I threw open the window and stepped out upon the roof of the tea-room.

Jack Vance, as he left the house, had caught up a double handful of snow, which he had been pressing into a hard ball as he ran down the path, determining in his own, mind to be the first to open fire on the snow man.

"God expects us to believe his word when he tells us that he has opened a way for us into the Holiest by the blood of his Son.

A minute came and went in strained silence; yet I could hear nothing, and I turned to Tonnison to say as much; and then, even as I opened my lips to speak, there came a strange wailing noise out of the wood on our left....

'We have been married eight years, and I consider you ought to trust me sufficiently to allow me to open my own letters.'

Whom he conceived him to be Beaumaroy himself never knew, but he opened his heart to him unreservedly.

She opened the book she had been reading when her cousin entered and took from it a newspaper clipping.

She opened her box and out came three spindles.

For example: suppose I wish to speak of any object that is white, or analogous to white, I open the drawer that is thus labelled, and I see silver, lime, chalk, and white enamel, ivory, paper, snow-drops, and alabaster, and select whichever of these substances will best suit the measure and the rhyme, and has the most soft-sounding name.

" Mary promised the people of Arochuku she would come again and open a school.

" Opening his medicine case, he bent over the racked sufferer.

[Opens her Arms, Diana stays him; he lets fall his Sword, and gazes.

If you do not care for us, who will care for us?" As Mary went down the river in her canoe, she thanked God that He had let her open this new field to the Gospel.

When the boys opened their bags, I found that instead of books and provisions, as I had expected, they were filled with sticks, which they told us constituted the arithmetical lessons they were required to practise at home.

At length the National League opened negotiations to obtain certain American League players and succeeded in doing so.

As we returned to our lodgings, we saw a number of persons, some of whom were entering and some leaving a neat small dwelling; and on joining the throng, we learnt that a famous fortune-teller lived there, who, at stated periods, opened his house to all that were willing to pay for being instructed in the events of futurity, or for having the secrets of the present or past revealed to them.

They are early risers as a rule and are ready to repair to the nearest mosque directly the Muezzin's call to prayer breaks the silence of the approaching dawn, and when the prayers are over they return to a frugal breakfast of bread soaked in milk or tea and then open their shops for the day's business.

Whilst, however, the dispute was going on, the master of The Revenge opened communication with the Spaniards and concluded an arrangement fully honourable to the British, by which it was agreed that those on board The Revenge should be sent to England in due course; those of the better sort to pay a reasonable ransom, and meantime no one was to be imprisoned.

" Barbara's heart beat, but she gave the boy a quarter and opened the envelope.

" Once again Donnegan was jarred, and he came within an ace of opening his mind to her, of pouring out the truth about Lou Macon.

He professed himself willing, in case I had any foolish scruples against mixing my blood with that of brutes, to purify my own, and put it back; but I obstinately declined both expedients; whereupon he opened a vein in my arm, and took from it about fourteen ounces of blood.