After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs. Lewis and Casanova arrived to see them off, and Elinor Wylie made tart observations that indicated that Lewis had been less discreet than he had promised to be about the real nature of their separation.

`` Sure, we met a barrel of rich men but it's hard to find the real thing when you're young, beautiful and the toast of two continents '' `` Remember Fanny Brice promised my mother she would look after me on the road ''??

She had done all the things she had promised herself she would do, but she had not thought of this.

At the time of her divorce Forbes had promised to pay her a lump sum in lieu of further alimony if she remarried.

She promised that she would soon take a few day's leave and visit the uncle she had never seen, on the island of Oyajima -- which was not very far from Yokosuka.

`` But she promised -- This will be different '', he said at last.

Or, what was worse, she prayed for him out loud at bedtime: `` Please, Lord Gord, please give my brother the strength to go swimming like he promised ''.

Two days before he was taken sick, Cousin Elec was out worrying about what too much rain might do to his sweetpeas, and Cousin Elec had always preserved in the top drawer of his secretary a mother-of-pearl paper knife which Theresa had coveted as a child and which he had promised she could have when he died.

Apollo fell in love with Cassandra and promised her the gift of prophecy to seduce her, but she rejected him afterwards.

Thus she, through whom salvation was being prepared for all people, would be the first to receive the promised fruit of salvation.

* A prophecy of restoration ( 7: 11 – 13 ): Fallen Jerusalem is promised that she will be rebuilt and that her power will be greater than ever ( a contrast with the vision of peace in 4: 1-5 ).

Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo La-tso, who promised Gendun Drup the 1st Dalai Lama in one of his visions that " she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas "

It is said that Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo La-tso, promised Gendun Drup, the 1st Dalai Lama in one of his visions " that she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas.

Runyon had promised her in Mexico that, if she would complete the education he paid for her, he would find her a dancing job in New York.

Most instances of elves in ballads are male ; the only commonly encountered female elf is the Queen of Elfland, who appears in Thomas the Rhymer and The Queen of Elfland's Nourice, in which a woman is abducted to be a wet-nurse to the queen's baby, but promised that she may return home once the child is weaned.

Having promised to marry previously, she told an unruly House:

She promised that if he admitted to charges of infidelity, she would allow him unlimited access to their daughters.

Mothra, in their previous conversation, had promised that she would stop the meteorite from landing.

In one case, Beria picked up a well-known actress under the pretense of bringing her to perform for the Politburo ; instead, he took her to his dacha, promised to free her father and grandmother from NKVD prison if she submitted, and then raped her, telling her " Scream or not, doesn't matter.

Gylfi promised Gefjun as much land as four oxen could plough in a day and a night, but she used oxen from the land of the giants, and moreover uprooted the land and dragged it into the sea, where it became the island of Zealand.

" Sanger was offered a more lenient sentence if she promised to not break the law again, but she replied: " I cannot respect the law as it exists today.

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

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

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.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

The mountainside grew steeper and she slipped once or twice on the smooth pine needles.

In spite of her attempt to preserve her balance, she fell, bruising her arm on a naked stone.

`` Aah, go on '', she said.

I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.

`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Smiling, she sat down on the suitcase and waited and watched.

But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

But she sat on in stubborn silence.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

A phony blonde hanging onto a bygone youth and beauty, but irreparably stringy in the neck, she was already working on her second gin and tonic, though it was not yet ten A.M.

Sibylla is pregnant with their second child when she finds the ivory tablet concealed by her husband, and the identities of mother and son are revealed.

Sometimes, Mrs. Coolidge would close herself in the Green Suite on the second floor, and play the piano she had brought to the White House.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

It was evident that a second transfer had to be effected, and that it had to take place between the time the fille finished the doctor's room and the time she began Alex's.

She thought it was sometime during the second week she worked for Stanley.

A second later she came behind the wheel and backed off the anchor line until it was set in the ocean floor.

The second baking was for photographing when told she was a finalist.

As she gained composure during the second act, her technical resourcefulness emerged stronger, though she had already revealed a trill almost unprecedented in years of performances of `` Lucia ''.

The first time the nurse took him out of the lung, she said if he got frightened, she'd put him back for a second.

I grabbed her arm and she turned on me and for a scared second I thought that maybe Wally was right, and she was crazy.

Slowly and deliberately she reached down and touched the lace with her fingers, then hesitated for about a second.

She also eliminated or removed anyone who she considered was a potential threat to her position and the future of her son, one of her victims being Lucius ' second paternal aunt and Messalina's mother Domitia Lepida the Younger.

In the second account given by the Thebans, when Alcmene died, she was turned from human form to a stone.

When questioned on why she followed Thomas to the second job after he had already allegedly harassed her, she said she had wanted to work in the civil rights field, she had no alternative job, " and at that time, it appeared that the sexual overtures ... had ended.

She testified that after leaving the EEOC, she had had two " inconsequential " phone conversations with Thomas, and had seen him personally on two occasions ; once to get a job reference and the second time when he made a public appearance in Oklahoma where she was teaching.