They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.

He treats her like she was dirt.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He had forgotten that she was so pretty.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

( Would she have been able to had she known that the blanket belonged to a young ballet dancer Nicolas had found his first night in one of Walter's marked bars??

However, she was able to relax and yield to the moment.

It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.

If pressed by the sitter for more detail, she may be able to bring the picture more into focus and see more sharply, almost as if she were physically going closer.

She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.

Time perspective -- the ability to plan for the future and to postpone gratifying immediate wants in order to achieve long-range objectives -- is more easily developed if, from infancy on, the individual has been able to rely on and trust people and the world in which she lives.

For exactly one week, she was able to continue in this manner.

The last obstacle in Mrs. Geraghty's globe-girdling trip was smoothed out when a representative of Syria called upon her to explain that his brother would meet her at the border of that country -- so newly separated from Egypt and the United Arab Republic that she hadn't been able to obtain a visa.

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

In time, he grew to depend upon her occasional company and she at length was able to encourage him to participate in more social activity.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

The tutor found them missing and eventually found them on the palace grounds but she was able to convince him that they would return to the palace shortly.

When he discovered that the original Desiree, Glynis Johns, was able to sing ( she had a " small, silvery voice ") but could not " sustain a phrase ", he devised the song " Send in the Clowns " for her in a way that would work around her vocal weakness, e. g., by ending lines with consonants that made for a short cut-off.

She claimed that she was able to heal others and began to be called out to the bedsides of those whom the medical faculty had not been able to help.

Soon others began to ask her to teach her healing method and she claimed that her students were able to approximate her ability to heal.

In an alternative version, she spent a night at Apollo's temple, at which time the temple snakes licked her ears clean so that she was able to hear the future ( this is a recurring theme in Greek mythology, though sometimes it brings an ability to understand the language of animals rather than an ability to know the future ).

Also, new information might threaten the student ’ s concept of him-or herself ; therefore, the less vulnerable the student feels, the more likely he or she will be able to open up to the learning process.

Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to him in a dream, announcing she had been disarmed by Jupiter, and would no longer be able to protect him.

The first message she was given was to announce to Peter and the others that " He is risen!

Kathy's attitudes are revealed further when she and Phil announce their engagement.

Henry rides off to marry Jane Seymour and the film's final shot is of their young daughter, Elizabeth ( Amanda Jane Smythe ), toddling alone in the garden as she hears the cannon firing to announce her mother's death.

It was a legal New Year when courts of law convened after a winter break, and it marked the supposed moment when the Angel Gabriel came to announce to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a child.

" I announce this good news to the city, that Florence will be more glorious, richer, more powerful than she has ever been ; First, glorious in the sight of God as well as of men: and you, O Florence will be the reformation of all Italy, and from here the renewal will begin and spread everywhere, because this is the navel of Italy.

Wayne is called small-time by Benjamin just before he leaves with Cassandra, and Wayne's crazy ex-girlfriend Stacy ( Lara Flynn Boyle ) comes in to announce to Wayne that she is pregnant.

When she finishes speaking, they announce, " The Trash Heap has spoken!

The way Dalida shifted from a classical performer to a grave performer singing songs full of emotion ( such as " Avec le temps ", " Parlez-moi de lui " and " Darla dirladada ", amongst others ), to a Diva and pop star like figure making the stage glow with her hit dance numbers and colourful costumes and finally to a grief-stricken singer singing famous songs which announce her death ( particularly songs such as " Mourir sur Scene ", " Bravo " and " Téléphonez-moi "), Dalida showed that she was a strong-willed woman shifting with time and fashion.

The most detailed account of the annunciation and birth of Jesus is provided in Sura 3 and 19 of The Qur ' an wherein it is written that God sent an angel to announce that she could shortly expect to bear a son, despite being a virgin.

The Sisters announce that they have come to build a hospital there, and Chicago-born Sister Margaret explains that during the war she was in charge of a children's hospital in Normandy when it became a potential target during a military campaign.

Soon, Marcus receives an offer to perform at the local casino and decides to leave the carnival, much to the joy of Rosalie, who can now announce to everyone that she is his wife.

Polly tells Tony that she is actually rich as well, and Percy and Mme Dubonnet announce that they are getting married.

It was displayed prominently at a New York cocktail party she threw to announce her new field of endeavor.

The boys then move on to Laos and later Thailand, where Barry's Russian ex-wife turns up to announce that she is carrying his child following a brief " reconciliation ".

Though she was no longer married, her ex-husband, Clarence Williams III, was the one to announce her death.

If a DJ is present, he or she will emcee the rotation and typically announce the current dancer ( s ) on stage and possibly who to expect in future sets.

Gross also showed a conscious break from exploring issues of Tim's parentage, having Titania announce that she would " never aid again " after he refused to accept a precious-and potentially life-saving-gift from her.

" When she was invited by Vice President Charles Curtis to preside over the Senate she took advantage of the situation to announce that she would run for reelection.

Claire takes the opportunity to announce that she will make a donation of one billion units of an unspecified currency, half for the town and half to be shared among the families.

The decline in his government's support in opinion polls and growing dissatisfaction of his leadership within the Labor Party led his deputy, Julia Gillard, to announce on 23 June 2010 that she would contest the leadership in a caucus ballot the following day.

Gareth later counsels Lyonesse to report to King Arthur and pretend she doesn ’ t know where he is ; instead, he tells her to announce a tournament of his knights against the Round Table.

Finding that she refuses to escape, Faust and the devil flee the dungeon, while voices from Heaven announce that Gretchen shall be saved-" Sie ist gerettet "-this differs from the harsher ending of Urfaust-" Sie ist gerichtet!