uncloses

With their own fragrance pale, which Spring but half uncloses.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

My Heart Leaps forward to meet them, whilst the trembling Hand uncloses the Seals, and my eager Eyes devour the contents; tho unwilling to reach the close.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 17 June 1782, with a List of Articles wanted from Holland 1973

Netta uncloses her eyes on familiar objects for a moment, and shuts them again.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

'_Open Sesame_' of water, it uncloses, leaving nature to use its jealously guarded treasures at her will.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Only I don't believe you do live in Aberlin, -- you probably live in some great, gnarled oak hereabouts; and at night its bark uncloses to set you free, and you and your sisters dance out the satyrs 'hearts in the moonlight.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

Under its tender moistening touch his frame, desiccated in the tropics, seemed to open out, even as a withered flower uncloses its petals in water.

South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

Swinnerton only blossoms in the right atmosphere; he must know exactly where he is; he must be perfectly sure of his environment, before the flower uncloses.

When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908

With their own fragrance pale, which Spring but half uncloses.

The Revolt of Islam 1901

Now the cavern door uncloses, now the saint above him stands,

The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke 1892

However long Wotan might ponder on Mother Earth the moment comes when the violins begin to sing; ah! how the spring uncloses in the orchestra, and the lovers fly to the woods! ...

Memoirs of My Dead Life 1892