wide-opened

• “Thank you for uour refreshing and inspiring blog : I like the way you wander in the city with the eyes wide-opened..”

  And Now Bunnies!

• “Three wide-opened casements laid bare the night under a teazle-blue heaven trembling with stars.”

  Over the River

• “Not Bobbie Ferrar, but a tall man with a reddish, clean-shaven face and silver hair brushed in a cockscomb off his forehead, was standing before the fire with his legs slightly apart and his hands under his coat tails; he was staring at her with very wide-opened light grey eyes, and his lips were just apart as if he were about to emit a remark.”

  Maid in Waiting

• “Her wide-opened, scared eyes were fixed immovably upon him.”

  The Brothers Karamazov

• “Nevertheless his wasted sides rose and fell, and his eyes, wide-opened in his pallid face, gazed in a continuous and intolerable fashion.”

  Salammbo

• “The girl who had shaken her head and made all the jewels, the topaz, the aquamarine, the water-coloured jewels with sparks of fire in them, dance, now bared her brows and with wide-opened eyes drove a straight pathway over the waves.”

  The Waves

• “Not roaring or snorting, but just blowing from its wide-opened mouth; blowing out as steadily as a vacuum cleaner sucks in.”

  The Silver Chair

• “A little dark blood gushed from its wide-opened mouth.”

  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

• “Now, as she returned, he saw the soft lines of her terror-moved face, and the deep blue of her wide-opened eyes.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863

• “Arnold stood, looking with wide-opened eyes at the place where they had last seen the Lamb, the man on the wagon threw another shovelful of coal down the hole.”

  The Story of a Lamb on Wheels

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