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Opened in sentence

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When it rose briefly to the surface to renew our air, the hatches opened and closed as if automated.
I opened the door cautiously, but as it swung on its hinges, it seemed to make a frightful noise.
I opened it gently.
The "new fellow" then took a supreme resolution, opened an inordinately large mouth, and shouted at the top of his voice as if calling someone in the word "Charbovari."
On the fine summer evenings, at the time when the close streets are empty, when the servants are playing shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened his window and leaned out.
She opened his letter, watched his comings and goings, and listened at the partition-wall when women came to consult him in his surgery.
The servant opened the garret-window and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below.
Charles from time to time opened his eyes, his mind grew weary, and, sleep coming upon him, he soon fell into a doze wherein, his recent sensations blending with memories, he became conscious of a double self, at once student and married man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the operation theatre as of old.
Once, during a thaw the bark of the trees in the yard was oozing, the snow on the roofs of the outbuildings was melting; she stood on the threshold, and went to fetch her sunshade and opened it.
He got up to drink from the water-bottle and opened the window.
From time to time one heard the crack of a whip behind the hedge; then the gates opened, a chaise entered.
Madame Bovary, senior, had not opened her mouth all day.
Seen thus closely, her eyes looked to him enlarged, especially when, on waking up, she opened and shut them rapidly many times.
If her childhood had been spent in the shop-parlour of some business quarter, she might perhaps have opened her heart to those lyrical invasions of Nature, which usually come to us only through translation in books.
The Marquis opened the drawing room door; one of the ladies (the Marchioness herself) came to meet Emma.
When she opened them again, in the middle of the drawing room three waltzers were kneeling before a lady sitting on a stool.
Emma threw a shawl over her shoulders, opened the window, and leant out.
She looked at it, opened it, and even smelt the odour of the lining—a mixture of verbena and tobacco.
Every day at the same time the schoolmaster in a black skullcap opened the shutters of his house, and the rural policeman, wearing his sabre over his blouse, passed by.
It was in the morning, before the court opened.
When they arrived in front of her garden, Madame Bovary opened the little gate, ran up the steps and disappeared.
She was seized with the temptation to flee somewhere with Leon to try a new life; but at once a vague chasm full of darkness opened within her soul.
Then he opened his hand; their eyes met again, and he disappeared.
He thought he saw a shadow behind the window in the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though no one were touching it, slowly opened its long oblique folds that spread out with a single movement, and thus hung straight and motionless as a plaster wall.
Madame Bovary had opened her window overlooking the garden and watched the clouds.
She opened wide her nostrils several times to drink in the freshness of the ivy round the capitals.
Beyond the farmyard there was a detached building that she thought must be the chateau She entered—it was if the doors at her approach had opened wide of their own accord.
Then she examined the apartment, opened the drawers of the tables, combed her hair with his comb, and looked at herself in his shaving-glass.
Emma pounced upon and opened it.
dark and fair, some even, catching in the hinges of the box, broke when it was opened.
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