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  • verb Present participle of unclose.

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Examples

  • The body slammed into the unclosing eye and bounced.

    Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004

  • The body slammed into the unclosing eye and bounced.

    Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004

  • The body slammed into the unclosing eye and bounced.

    Love and Death Jeff Mariotte 2004

  • She soon recovered, and unclosing her eyes, found herself in the arms of a chevalier, who appeared to support her with difficulty.

    The Romance of the Forest 2004

  • This day was the thirty-fifth day, the very day of the fifth seven, and the whole company of bonzes had just (commenced the services) for unclosing the earth, and breaking Hell open; for sending a light to show the way to the departed spirit; for its being admitted to an audience by the king of Hell; for arresting all the malicious devils, as well as for soliciting the soul-saving

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • I had noted with idle eye, while, with a thick-beating heart, I waited the unclosing of that door at which I stood — a solitary and a suppliant.

    Villette 2003

  • He was standing near his writing-table, and pointing angrily to some envelopes, papers, and little piles of coin upon it as he addressed some observations to the bailiff, Jakoff Michaelovitch, who was standing in his usual place (that is to say, between the door and the barometer) and rapidly closing and unclosing the fingers of the hand which he held behind his back, The more angry

    Childhood 2003

  • ‘Now then,’ said I, unclosing my hand, but still standing before him.

    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 2002

  • Then here is my last, "-- unclosing a pretty sketch of a gentleman in small size, whole-length --" my last and my best -- my brother,

    Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001

  • Late at night there are the old movies, the horror pictures, the late show, and the late-late show, and even the little sermon before the channel signs off for the night, and the "Star-Spangled Banner" with the flag waving in the background, and finally the channel test pattern that stares back at me through the little square window with its unclosing eye ….

    Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966

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