52 examples of open-eyed in sentences

Neither of them paid any attention to Mandy, who listened open-eyed and open-eared to this singular courtship.

Kathleen was standing near them, open-eyed and open-mouthed, in an ecstasy of realization.

You don't know how proud I was when I saw a young man on the train take one from his pocket one day!" He opened his desk and handed her a copy; Marjorie looked at it and at him in open-eyed wonder.

Stand back!" They shrank back against the walls, open-eyed, open-mouthed, trembling.

" "So poor?" echoed Susie, open-eyed.

It was dark, and our imaginations were excited by his stories of apparitions, and this may have brought us, unknown to us, to the threshold, between sleeping and waking, where Sphinxes and Chimaeras sit open-eyed and where there are always murmurings and whisperings.

The lady in my power: yet not have intended to put herself in my power: declaring against love, and a rebel to it: so much open-eyed caution: no confidence in my honour: her family expecting the worst hath passed: herself seeming to expect that the worst will be attempted:

He gazed at the bare-faced creature that confronted him in the glass after the operation in open-eyed consternation, and Messrs. Kidd and Brown's politeness easily gave way before their astonishment.

Let the sounds but reach thy heart, Straight thyself magician art; Walkest open-eyed through earth; Seest wonders in their birth, Whence they come and whither go; Thou thyself exalted so, Nature's consciousness, whereby On herself she turns her eye.

" At this moment Tom Davenport opened the door of the apartment, and stared in open-eyed amazement at his father's singular visitor.

He talked and talked, and the astonishment of his hearers grew greater and greater; but when he came to the royal lackey and the beautiful book, all the dairymaids dropped their needle-work and sat staring at Clement in open-eyed wonder at his marvellous experiences.

Söderberg must have said something about her, for now both Lapp men and Lapp women took the short pipes from their mouths and stared at her in open-eyed wonder and awe.

" "Wid a whizz?" asked the open-eyed Letty.

Of all the little incidents of the day, Dot was the amused and open-eyed spectatress from her chair in the cart; making a charming little portrait as she sat there, looking on.

Mrs. Waters fell back and regarded him with open-eyed amazement.

Her shoes were soaked and at every step the donkey splashed her new stockings, but she did not care; for she had discovered a motive in life and followed her quest open-eyed, aware that already she was rearranging her scale of values to suit her present condition.

Thrice a fool for having stumbled to his fate, open-eyed.

She hated the terrace, tooshe closed her eyes to shut out the ugly darkness that was pressing against her; behind the shelter of her lids it was cooler and stiller, but open-eyed or closed, she could not shut out memory.

Night before last?" asked Yolanda, in open-eyed wonder, "I have not seen you since three weeks ago.

Consequently it is very exasperating to sit, open-eyed and expectant, watching the removal of the successive swathings which hide from you the dusky glories of an old-time princess, and, when the unrolling is over, to find it is nothing, after all, but a great lubberly boy.

The effect was horribly uncannyof all those brown men, open-eyed and conscious, but perfectly unable to move so much as an eyebrow.

" "How?" demanded Garcia, open-eyed and open-mouthed with anxiety.

"Blind recklessness" is a most expressive phrase; it means all the words indicate, and is contra-distinguished from open-eyed or wise recklessness.

What he requires of his friends is pure, open-eyed truth.

We did not know we were coming here, why may we not be going there without knowing itthis much more open-eyed, more aware that we know we do not know?

52 examples of  open-eyed  in sentences