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Example sentences for "thrown open"

  • And he advanced for the first time the audacious proposal that they should be thrown open to all on the simple condition of passing an examination.

  • Let us,' they said, 'take care that to such a man as this any and every branch of science shall be thrown open.

  • And yet no one ventured to point out that all the Professions--and not science only, through the Universities--might be thrown open.

  • At the first peal of the bells all the churches were thrown open, and the hymns and praises offered up in them lent to the stillness of night the most lively sounds of the day.

  • On the preceding afternoon, the amphitheatre is thrown open to all sorts of people indiscriminately.

  • The very treasury of heaven is thrown open to us, but we fail to appropriate.

  • The exhaustless treasury of heaven is thrown open to Faith.

  • If the public lands are to be considered as open to be occupied by any, they should by law be thrown open to all.

  • If alternate sections are retained by the Government, I would suggest that the retained sections be thrown open to entry under the homestead laws, or sold to actual settlers for a very low price.

  • The field must be thrown open to individual enterprise, which has been the real factor in the development of every region over which our flag has flown.

  • This day the doors were not thrown open to him the beadle did not bow down to the earth before him, but proudly and with erect head stepped up to him and bade him wait in the antechamber until he had announced him to the assembled Council.

  • The garden gates were now violently thrown open, and a band of stout workmen was seen hastening in wild disorder toward Gotzkowsky.

  • They heard the soldiers hurry down the steps; they heard the house door violently thrown open, and the officer announce in a loud voice to those of his soldiers who were waiting in the street, the lucky capture of the artilleryman.

  • In this stately castle there are, doubtless, several rooms that can be thrown open to these weary, suffering mountaineers.

  • While her orders were being obeyed, she looked around to convince herself that every avenue was closed through which the wind might penetrate, and that done, she ordered the door to be thrown open, and the prince admitted.

  • Had it been Marie Antoinette, all the doors would have been thrown open to her subjects.

  • Then there is a step in the hall, the door is thrown open, and he enters, as much hurried as it is possible for a well-bred young man to be in this nineteenth century.

  • Ten o'clock rings out mysteriously from the handsome marble clock upon the chimney-piece, and precisely three minutes afterward the door is thrown open to admit an elderly lady, tall and fair, and still beautiful.

  • At every step in life a new perspective into the heart of humanity is thrown open to us; to live is to understand, and to understand is not only to tolerate but to love.

  • Whenever a limitless field of action is thrown open to a race, its birth-rate increases.

  • It is only to a mind upon the march that the great perspective of the infinite is thrown open.

  • The Church not being "thrown open," he was, as I have said, our clerk.


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