"Fly open" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... determination. I accordingly got to pulling upon them with a vehemence which probably disturbed my aim, as if I had been drawing at a halibut rather than at a trigger. But the gates which are appointed to fly open before a high behavior are but as the barred gates of Destiny toward mere low strength. The gods and birds were immitigable. I must do better, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 • Various
... it. They are also supposed to have the benefit of the exertions of certain small boys, who shake money-boxes before some mysterious little buildings like rural turnpikes, which (usually shut up close) fly open on Red-letter days, and disclose an image ...
— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens
... the legitimate queen draw near, and, scenting a rival, appear disposed to attack her, the living walls of the prison will at once fly open; and the bees, forming a circle around the two enemies, will eagerly watch the strange duel that will ensue, though remaining strictly impartial, and taking no share in it. For it is written that against a mother ...
— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck
... forsooth, these doors will always fly Open to me, or that because I stand The first in ...
— The Comedies of Terence • Publius Terentius Afer
... afternoon, she looked at the rosewood chiffonnier with longing eyes—she even gave that pretty little piece of furniture a slight shake. If only the doors would fly open, as the locked doors of old cupboards sometimes do, even after they have been securely fastened, how pleased she would be, how much more comfortable somehow ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
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