The old woman arose stiffly and led me to a clearing where a small hut stood.

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

The old woman complained to the deputy governor, who ordered the servant brought before the court.

the old woman with the stew.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.

She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.

Then she looked at the old woman again, her eyes calm.

The old woman, stubbornly reigning in the house above the crashing waters took on an ominous reality.

`` I guess it's children make a woman old.

There was a very old man and a young woman and a brood of children ranging from toddlers to teen-agers.

She was a large woman with a frizzled gray poodle cut and a pencil clamped like a bit between her teeth while she hunted and pecked on an old typewriter.

No need say anything at all to the old woman.

She'd say she didn't feel good on Sunday, couldn't go to church -- there'd be a little argument, but she could be stubborn -- and when the old woman had gone, quick pack the things she'd need to take, all but the dress she'd wear Monday, and take the bag down to that place in the station where you could put things in a locker overnight, for a dime.

`` You sound like an old woman.

`` Julia had -- has -- an old Indian woman cooking for her -- Nellie Harris.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

The old woman had a nephew from North Italy, a poor boy from a lumber mill who had got tired of the seasonal unemployment, and who had migrated to Canada to work on the railway.

Just the same, the old woman said, she would write to her nephew in his boxcar and tell him she had met a nice man from his adopted country.

A very great Pope, this one, the old woman explained, her black eyes sparkling.

Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar, where Alex insists on following through on Georgie's idea to burgle the home of a wealthy old woman.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

He was old enough to be in the midst of his literary studies, to understand the real meaning and worth of the dissolute and licentious lives of his companions, and to have been deeply affected himself by the love of a woman ( Ibid.

Commissioned by Ammannati for funeral of his wife poetess Laura Battiferri ( painted as old woman with the book ).

After the spate of female vocalists we have been having, all of whom took Sarah as a point of departure and then tried to see what they could do that might make her seem old hat, it seemed that all that has happened is to make the real thing seem better than ever.

In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first ; and if they had more than their fair share of service, it was correspondingly easy for them to reduce any that tried to leave the confederacy.

Heavy disputes between Hekmatyar and Massoud in 1975 reached to such a point that Hekmatyar with the help of two Pakistani agents tried to assassinate Massoud, then 22 years old.

At the end of the war, 19-year old student Robert Limpert tried to get the town to surrender to the US Forces without a fight.

He was still only 20 years old, yet now there was an expectation that he would help with the rebuilding of the club as Busby's aides tried to piece together what remained of the season.

When the old president Kolingba tried to overthrow Patassé in May 2001, the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) came to his rescue.

Claudius also tried to revive the old custom of putting dots between successive words ( Classical Latin was written with no spacing ).

Caligula, who is only 5 years old at the time, completes the curse and kills his father, because his father had tried to discipline him.

Calvin tried to recruit two professors for the institute, Mathurin Cordier, his old friend and Latin scholar who was now based in Lausanne, and Emmanuel Tremellius, the Regius professor of Hebrew in Cambridge.

Horace Cannon drowned August 7, 1851 when Joseph was fifteen years old as he tried to reach a sick patient by crossing Sugar Creek.

In effect, rather than killing off her detective, as Conan Doyle unsuccessfully tried with his, Sayers pensioned Wimsey off to a happy, satisfying old age.

While Prince Louis II's sympathies were strongly pro-French, he tried to keep Monaco neutral during World War II but supported the Vichy French government of his old army colleague, Marshall Philippe Pétain.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

Æthelred's eldest son, Æthelstan had long been recognised as heir apparent, and charter evidence shows that Edward ranked behind all Æthelred's sons by his first marriage, but Æthelstan died in June 1014, and Emma now tried to get her own son, the ten year old Edward, recognised as heir.

At 21 years old, Hicks had never consumed alcohol, smoked cigarettes, or tried drugs.

Prussia ’ s appetite for the economically and culturally more developed territories of Saxony originated in the old dream of annexation that Frederick II had developed in his political testament of 1752 and had already tried to realize in the Seven Years ' War.

However, The Craze still split up fairly quickly, and Ash once again tried to convince his old school friend Peter Murphy to join him, simply because Ash thought he had the right look for a band.

Mrs. Hsia was dragged out from under a table in the guest hall where she had tried to hide with her 1 year old baby.

* In November 2010, Alejo Garza Tamez, a 77 year old Mexican hunter and businessman from the state of Nuevo León, Mexico, killed four and wounded two other members of the organized crime band Los Zetas, when they tried to take away his ranch from him.

They tried to organize food distribution, aid stations, old age homes, orphanages and schools.

In the past, there was a tradition that old people tried to make their paperwhite flowers blossom right the watch-night time.

Consequently, he became the leader of an old guard which tried to overthrow Khrushchev.

While shooting the cemetery scene, Hopper tried to convince Fonda to talk to the statue of the Madonna as though it were Fonda's mother ( who had committed suicide when he was 10 years old ) and ask her why she left him.

The closest was perhaps Lyndon Johnson, who deliberately tried to reinvigorate the old coalition, but in fact drove its constituents apart.