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her and father
`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.
He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.
Certainly, she wouldn't dare ask her father afterward.
or maybe she liked men old enough to be her father ; ;
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
Read, for instance, in Malcolm MacDonald's Borneo People of Segura and her wise father Tomonggong Koh, and her final adjustment to encroaching civilization.
She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
The infant, in white terry-cloth bathrobe, her face intense and purposeful, had essayed a few wobbly steps toward her father.
When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;
Suppose her father had changed his mind and had refused to let her leave??
Suppose at this very moment her father was calling my house in an effort to cancel the plans??
Mrs. B. compared her feelings of weakness to her feelings of weakness and helplessness at the time of her mother's death when she was eight, as well as her subsequent anger at her father for remarrying.
Again, I at first misconstrued this disconcertingly intense communication, and I quickly cast through my mind to account for her being able to speak, with such utter conviction, of an opinion held by my father, now several years deceased.
it is only after he has involved her emotions in his scheme that he uses her given name, placing himself by implication in the position of a solicitous father.

her and was
He was well rid of her.
Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.
It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.
He treats her like she was dirt.
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.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.
That girl last night, what was her name??
It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.
So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

her and enthusiastic
He released her reluctantly for her enthusiastic reunion with Old Hap.
However, not everyone was as enthusiastic and she also had to face prejudice because of her sex.
Late in life Ayn Rand renewed her childhood interest in stamps and became an enthusiastic collector.
Kelly's new co-star, James Stewart, was highly enthusiastic about working with her.
After her death, it was noted that Henry was an " enthusiastic embroiderer ".
She smiled her way through the ordeal, which the British press still portrayed in a positive light, describing the crowds as " enthusiastic ".
Helm recalled her experiences of shooting the film in a contemporary interview, saying that " the night shots lasted three weeks, and even if they did lead to the greatest dramatic moments — even if we did follow Fritz Lang ’ s directions as though in a trance, enthusiastic and enraptured at the same time — I can ’ t forget the incredible strain that they put us under.
Mabel was enthusiastic about Gertrude's sprawling publication The Makings of Americans and, at a time when Gertrude had much difficulty selling her writing to publishers, privately published 300 copies of Portrait of Mabel Dodge at Villa Curonia, a copy of which was valued at $ 25, 000 in 2007.
In 1948, Davis was cast in the melodrama Winter Meeting ; and, although she was initially enthusiastic, she soon learned that Warner had arranged for " softer " lighting to be used to disguise her age.
One comes between basketball practice in the gym and the exterior at The Rig-Wam drive-in ; it has Jacy, Duane and Sonny riding along in her convertible ( and being chased by an enthusiastic little dog ), singing an uptempo rendition of the more solemn school song sung later at the football game.
Nevertheless, an enthusiastic Beatrice Massey wrote in her 1919 travelogue It Might Have Been Worse:
She was also an enthusiastic champion of literary experiment who was willing to use her money to publish the group.
She is enthusiastic about the virile handsomeness of town gallants, rakes, and especially theatre actors ( such self-referential stage jokes were nourished by the new higher status of actors ), and keeps Pinchwife in a state of continual horror with her plain-spokenness and her interest in sex.
After the first story arc concludes, she becomes a more excitable, even goofy character, and her adventures frequently involve overconfidence, enthusiastic determination to come out on top, and slapstick humor.
Despite her declared expertise, Minako herself has little personal experience in relationships ( aside from a brief and ill-fated love in the Sailor V manga ), but is enthusiastic about romantic opportunities — even to the point of two-timing a pair of the series ' villains.
Roma as " divine sponsor " of athletics and pan-Hellenic culture seems to have dovetailed neatly into a well-established and enthusiastic festival circuit, and temples to her were outnumbered by her civic statues and dedications, In 133 BCE Attalus III bequeathed the people and territories of Pergamon to Rome, as to a trusted ally and protector.
She was found singing on top of boxes to an enthusiastic crowd of shoppers laughing and clapping until her mother took her.
Although her father was an actor as well, he was not enthusiastic about his daughter's prospective new career.
When MGM first approached her for a screen test, Russell was not enthusiastic, remembering Universal.
In London he was mobbed by an enthusiastic crowd and on 16 January at Queen Victoria's invitation he was received at Windsor to explain to her and Prince Albert the details of the battle.

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