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

As she was rather tired this evening, her simple `` Thank you for the use of your bath '' -- when she sat down opposite him -- spoken in a low voice, came across with coolnesses of intelligence and control.

Now, she just sat there looking at him, without an expression except concern for him.

Harriet's mouth watered with anticipation when after months of dreaming she sat down at last to her much-craved milk and fresh bread.

Then she took iced lemonade to Marsh's young aide where he sat in the cool of the big trees around the flower garden.

Still she was not sorry he sat by her, but in fact was flattered.

Her legs hung down long and thin as she sat on the high stool.

He sat for a while with his hands on his knees, watching the bend of her back as she gathered up her things -- a comb, a bottle of aspirin -- to take upstairs and pack.

I waited a few minutes and she sat up.

All the while she sat there, her sinewy arms swirled before her chest.

Such as now, when she sat at a table in the coffee shop at the Officers' Club, having coffee and a hamburger to sustain her until dinnertime.

if Tommy sat long enough, she would be sure to see all the young officers she had met in San Diego and Long Beach.

He sat down next to a heavily-upholstered blonde, but she was cleaned out in twenty minutes.

Back at the Factory-to-You with the other old maids, back there she was the youngest clerk and she was thirty-four, which made her young enough to resent the usual ideal working conditions, like the unventilated toilet with the door you had to hold shut while you sat down.

I got her into bed, and sat with her until she had sobbed herself out.

Halfway up the staircase she stopped and sat down.

Hephaestus gained revenge against Hera for rejecting him by making her a magical throne which, when she sat on, did not allow her to leave.

Sigyn, Loki's wife, sat with him holding a basin beneath the dripping venom, yet when the basin became full, she carried the poison away ; and during this time the poison dripped on to Loki, causing him to writhe with such violence that all of the earth shook from the force, resulting in what are now known as earthquakes.

While she did not participate in the discussions, she sat in the front row and listened as the men vying to become the nation's 44th president claimed to be a rightful successor to her husband.

As she was going to the Lateran Church between the Colossean Theatre ( so called from Nero's Colossus ) and St. Clement's her travail came upon her, and she died upon the place, having sat two years, one month, and four days, and was buried there without any pomp.

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.

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.

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.

I can be as stubborn as she can, he thought ; ;

Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn ; she demanded precedence over Mary at the funeral of Edward VII, was slow in leaving Buckingham Palace, and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been passed to the new queen.

This argument states that if nothing had happened, nothing would have happened, and doesn't take much of a stand in explaining why Antigone returned for the second burial when the first would have fulfilled her religious obligation, regardless of how stubborn she was.

Extremely stubborn and of limited intelligence, she was soon entirely under the influence of her maid Leonora " Galigai " Dori.

He had asked Kotabe to draw her eyes to be " a little cat-like " and that she should look " stubborn, but cute ".

In this process, she allows her fierce determination and her stubborn, hardworking ways show through, and in the end, turns the F4 into her close friends.

In the privacy of her own home, she is spoiled, stubborn, a slob, and studies relentlessly and obsessively to maintain her grades.

Highly adventurous, stubborn, impulsive, and most certainly vigilant, she constantly intends to get into the action, Always exploiting loopholes in what she is told.

She is extraordinarily stubborn, utterly convinced she is right, addicted to romance ( although she denies it vehemently ), and much more sentimental than she admits to.

Despite some bold fights and stubborn stands taken up by these publishers, its was quite clear that Indira Gandhi had as strong a grip on the Indian press as she had on Indian politics, at least during the government-imposed emergency.

Upset, Shinkai calls him cold and insensitive, resulting in a two-day suspension, during which he becomes acquainted with Ayumi Ogawa ( Kou Shibasaki ), a stubborn, straight-talking mechanic whose parents died in an airplane crash when she was just twelve.

Moesha is headstrong, independent and at times stubborn, but stands up for what she believes is right.

Fumiko complains that her father is stubborn, insisting on arranging her marriage, whereas she has now fallen in love with a musician and is adamant to lead life her own way.

But like her gifted father before her, she had no head for business and, like her gifted husband, she was stubborn, defensive and eccentric in ways that exasperated many.

As a widow and a mother, her main goals are to quickly marry off her daughter Frederica ( whom she despises and regards as stupid and stubborn ) to a rich enough man, and to marry an even better match herself.

To Ebony, she seemed " startlingly blonde, especially when that powerful dusky alto voice begins to moan of trouble, two-timing men and freedom ... with stubborn determination, enthusiasm and a basic love for the underdog, is making a name for herself ... aided and abetted by some of the oldest names in jazz who helped give birth to the blues.

She is stubborn and ignorant ; therefore, she is repugnant to Evelina.

Far from being just another stereotypical damsel-in-distress princess, who needs the hero to save her, she is hot-tempered, stubborn and resolute.