open one's eyes
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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the air was so thick with fine snow, driven along by the furious storm, that it became very difficult to breathe and almost impossible to open one's eyes even for a moment.
From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by H. B. Reese
After sleeping, one woke unable to open one's eyes.
From With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia by John Ward
One can open one's eyes, one can breathe, one can look around him.
From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
This view is inconceivably foolish, for it is necessary only to open one's eyes to see what a pitiful use is made of the power which man already possesses to create wealth.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Theodor Hertzka
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