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She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
She might have been someone he had once loved.
She gave me the names of some people who would surely help pay for the flowers and might even march up to the monument with me.
She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.
She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.
She ascribed her delight with both experiences to the effect they seemed to have of temporarily removing from her the controls which she felt so compulsively necessary to maintain even when it might seem appropriate to relax these controls.
She retreated by leaving the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and there.
She thought royal status might come her way when, while she was still in Rome, she met Pulley Bey, a personal procurer to King Farouk of Egypt.
She might have been talking to some of her friends about her husband if they've been having any trouble ''.
She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.
She might, conceivably, have brought one in in a large-enough suitcase.
She might be firm.
She could not count the times Herman had rapped on the door, just a couple of bangs that shook the whole damned closet and might, someday, break away the pipe connections from the wall.
She might like to take him to St. Peter's.
She might peel him, once the worst of the agony was over.
She admitted in an interview given that year that the fairies might have been " figments of my imagination ", but left open the possibility she believed that she had somehow managed to photograph her thoughts.
" She summed up her driving work ethic, " I can say this: When I attempt anything, I have a passionate determination to overcome every obstacle … And I do my own work with a refusal to accept defeat that might almost be called painful.
She was for thousands a symbol of what the free woman might be.
Even though it might have cost me a lot of money, I kept saying no .” She eventually found a publisher who agreed to print the book containing only 10 % of the material.
She might have also been given a classical education though no details are known.
She told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles ' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet.
She had told producers that she was 25 because she heard that initially Dick Van Dyke had stated that she might be too young for the part.
She also notes the possibility that the stones that were dated might have been recycled from earlier constructions.
She has been credited with helping Harding achieve more than he might have alone ; some have speculated that she later pushed him all the way to the White House.

She and now
`` She doesn't want you now.
She quickly exploited the exalted position she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized males and even putting many of them to death.
She was now enjoying the voyage very much.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.
She wrote again and now, abandoning for the moment the theme of love, she asked for help in the matter of her career.
She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty-legged escritoire, warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea spray.
She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.
She did this now, comfortably aware of the mist running down the windows, of the silence outside, of the dark afternoon it was getting to be.
She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.
She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.
She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.
She now serves on the board of directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Theater Center and on the board of trustees of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.
She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.
She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.
She now realizes that Torvald is not at all the kind of person she had believed him to be, and that their marriage has been based on mutual fantasies and misunderstanding.
She is credited with preserving much of the land that now comprises the Lake District National Park.
She should stop now ".
She would later advise her confessor and biographer, the Blessed Raymond of Capua, O. P., ( who went on to become Master General of the Order ) to do during times of trouble what she did now as a teenager: " Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.
Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).
She decided to stay in Geneva alone, living first on the lake at Plongeon ( near the present United Nations buildings ) and then at the Rue de Chanoines ( now the Rue de la Pelisserie ) with François and Juliet d ’ Albert Durade on the second floor (" one feels in a downy nest high up in a good old tree ").
She now serves as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
She was the wife of Anskill of Seacourt, at Wytham in Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ).

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