Perhaps she had no reason to fear these trees that whispered their secrets above her head as she passed.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

But as the tree passed, she lifted an arm in gesture of better luck and farewell.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

He asked, when she passed him a glass.

Something in my voice must have touched her deeply because her anger passed quickly, and she turned away to keep me from seeing her face.

An old man, sitting against the wall of a cottage and waiting for the sun to find him, gave her a more than reflective look as she passed, the sap still plainly rising in his branches.

Several people passed in the hall and stared as he slowly retreated, trying to close the door a little, and she slowly leaned toward him and raised her voice.

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

Ivinskaya later recalled, " But I became so ill through loss of blood that she and Luisa had to get me to the hospital, and I not longer remember exactly what passed between me and this heavily built, strong-minded woman, who kept repeating how she didn't give a damn for our love and that, although she no longer loved Leonidovich herself, she would not allow her family to be broken up.

Some researchers have taken up speculative views, such as Jerzy Strzelczyk, who assumed that in the light of contemporary concepts and habits of marriage of that time ( when as a rule marriages were contracted with teenage girls ) is assumed that Dobrawa had passed her early youth, so, it's probable that she was in her late teens or twenties.

The second run was even faster ; as K7 passed the start of the measured kilometre, she was travelling at over.

Largely destitute she moved into rented accommodation and passed on her copy of the Caprichos for free.

When he unexpectedly died of a heart attack in January 1975, his share of TSR passed to his wife, a woman whom Gygax characterized as " less than personable ... After Don died she dumped all the Tactical Studies Rules materials off on my front porch.

As a goddess expected to avert demons from the house or city over which she stood guard and to protect the individual as she or he passed through dangerous liminal places, Hecate would naturally become known as a goddess who could also refuse to avert the demons, or even drive them on against unfortunate individuals.

She did not lack company, however, as she passed the time with her mother and sister, Beatrice ; and upon meeting Elisabetta Gonzaga, her 18-year-old sister-in-law, the two women became close friends.

Polgár was playing an endgame of knight against knight and two connected passed pawns of Alexander Grischuk, but she was able to eliminate both pawns.

The younger Matilda was left in either Lucca or Canossa and she may have passed the next few years between those two places in the custody of her stepfather.

The two terms may not have originally been distinguished ; though in Homer's poems nectar is usually the drink and ambrosia the food of the gods ; it was with ambrosia Hera " cleansed all defilement from her lovely flesh ", and with ambrosia Athena prepared Penelope in her sleep, so that when she appeared for the final time before her suitors, the effects of years had been stripped away and they were inflamed with passion at the sight of her.

In 1991 she appeared as " Lady Penelope " on episode No. 20 of the first season of the TV comedy series Fresh Prince of Bel Air starring Will Smith.

As so often, it is Athena who takes the initiative in giving the story a new direction ... Usually the motives of mortal and god coincide, here they do not: Athena wants Penelope to fan the Suitor's desire for her and ( thereby ) make her more esteemed by her husband and son ; Penelope has no real motive ... she simply feels an unprecedented impulse to meet the men she so loathes ... adding that she might take this opportunity to talk to Telemachus ( which she will indeed do ).

Odysseus has now revealed himself in all his glory ( with a little makeover by Athena ); yet Penelope cannot believe that her husband has really returned — she fears that it is perhaps some god in disguise, as in the story of Alcmene — and tests him by ordering her servant Euryclea to move the bed in their wedding-chamber.

In other story of the Epic Cycle, subsequent to Odysseus ' death, Penelope marries his son by Circe, Telegonus, with whom she becomes the mother of Italus.

When Athena visited Telemachus she took the disguise of Mentor to hide herself from the suitors of Telemachus ' mother Penelope.

She takes an oath not to tell Penelope he had left until 12 days had passed ; Telemachus did not want his mother to worry any more than she already was.

" In the 1994 film in which Penelope Ann Miller portrayed the character, she is characterized as a telepath.

Returning to England in 1575, Sidney met Penelope Devereux, the future Lady Rich ; though much younger, she would inspire his famous sonnet sequence of the 1580s, Astrophel and Stella.

In 2006 Ricci starred in Penelope, a modern fairytale ; and in 2008 she played the female lead in the Wachowski brothers ' feature film adaptation of Speed Racer.

There she finds a mother substitute in Mrs. Hamley ( Penelope Wilton ), who embraces her almost as a daughter.

Although she does not specifically label the document as a gazetteer, Penelope Wilson ( PhD, Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University ) describes an ancient Egyptian papyrus found at the site of Tanis, Egypt ( a city founded during the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt ) which provides the following for each administrative area of Egypt at the time:

Penelope also has the odd habit of interjecting the word " please " into almost all of her sentences ( though in her website she puts this down to the fact that she has always been told to say " please " when she wants something, and she wants to meet Amanda ).

On rare occasions, Penelope invades skits already in progress ( most notably ' Cooking with Me ' where she is chased by Security, and steals the cooking pot to try to carry Amanda with her, but Amanda comes up from the hole in the cooker ).

Her brother Preston has met Amanda and sometimes asks if she could meet Penelope ; Amanda always says she cannot.

In Italy in 1997 she released an album under the name Blackwood.

A property manager from Matthews, North Carolina, Blackwood succeeded Fern Shubert when she left to run for North Carolina Senate.

Captained by Henry Blackwood, she was at the Battle of Trafalgar, where she was Collingwood's flagship after the death of Nelson.

It was by Caleb Field in 1851, the year in which she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited to contribute to the famous Blackwood's Magazine.

At the time of her death, Oliphant was still working on Annals of a Publishing House, a record of the progress and achievement of the firm of Blackwood, with which she had been so long connected.

Blood Canticle ( 2003 ) is a novel by Anne Rice in which she combines the new characters from her novel Blackwood Farm with those from her previous novels in The Vampire Chronicles and The Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy.

In what she believes to be her dying hour, Mona-highly romantic in nature-buys quantities of roses and takes them to the house of her lover, Tarquin " Quinn " Blackwood, who is a vampire and a dear companion to Lestat.

She spares at least 17 ( Maharet, Mekare, Khayman, Louis, Jesse, Gabrielle, Armand, Daniel, Marius, Mael, Santino, Pandora, Eric, Vittorio, Thorne and the coven that made Quinn Blackwood ; Manfred Blackwood, Petronia, and one from ancient Greece ) vampires from her slaughter — either ancient vampires she can't easily destroy, or Lestat's loved ones — and demands that they join with her in her plan for a new world order: to kill 99 % of the world's men and to set up a new Eden in which women, with Akasha as Goddess, reign.