Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

He looked at her as she spoke, then got up as she was speaking still, and, simply and wordlessly, walked out.

She even spoke differently when she was clean, and she was clean now for his departure and her voice clear and rather sharp.

And so, still wondering and a little perplexed, he grinned at the girl and spoke lightly to make sure that she would know he was kidding.

But there was that something, some echo in the way she spoke.

The way she spoke, her flat acceptance of her alcoholic blackout, made me shudder.

`` I spoke to the fellow next door, too '', she might say.

" He spoke about ... such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes " she said, adding that on several occasions Thomas graphically described " his own sexual prowess " and the details of his anatomy.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

In an echo of the legend that they spoke about in the desert, she asks him to make a wish.

He soon took up with a woman, Juliette, whose maiden name, given variously as Froissy and Pourtalai and nationality ( she spoke French ) remain uncertain, but his divorce from Zina became final only in 1883, whereupon he married Juliette.

Freda Kirchwey, then editor of The Nation, wrote at the time of her death: " When she spoke to people — whether it was to a small committee or a swarming crowd — hearts beat faster.

Apollo spoke through his oracle: the sibyl or priestess of the oracle at Delphi was known as the Pythia ; she had to be an older woman of blameless life chosen from among the peasants of the area.

Off the set, the co-stars hardly spoke during the filming, where normally she had a reputation for affairs with her leading men.

For example, on March 31, 2006, she spoke at a criminology conference held at the University of Pennsylvania.

He spoke against her in harsh terms: " Again Herodias raves ; again she is troubled ; she dances again ; and again desires to receive John's head in a charger ," an allusion to the events surrounding the death of John the Baptist.

Concerning her retirement, he spoke, " She doesn't like the new film grammar, the method of presentation of the material ; she says there's no heart in it anymore, that people no longer take human love seriously.

At her sentencing hearing, Olson's teenage daughter Leila, her pastor, and her husband spoke in her defense, while Olson's mother claimed on the stand that Olson had never been a part of the SLA and spoke against prosecutors and police she asserted had harassed the family.

According to Díaz, she spoke to emissaries from Moctezuma in their native tongue Nahuatl and pointed to Cortés as the chief Spaniard to speak for them.

Five days later she spoke on Wall Street to an estimated 50, 000 people.

Of these Lyce also appears in a fragment preserved in the Latin Anthology where she is said to have killed the hero Clonus of Moesia, son of Doryclus, with her javelin.

Fay disappears, and hiding from the police, admits that she hopes for one miracle-for a hero who can come and deliver the town from the madness (“ There Won't Be Trumpets ”).

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

She is the one, or rather the love or fear she inspires in the hero, or else the concern he feels for her, who makes him act the way he does.

In the camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundred, and I have often thought that as Mrs. White would read the same and knowing that I lived near, she would pray for my appearance and that she might be saved.

She told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles ' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet.

Often, she lamented that she never had her hero for herself.

The Morrígan's earliest narrative appearances, in which she is depicted as an individual, are in stories of the Ulster Cycle, where she has an ambiguous relationship with the hero Cú Chulainn.

During the two or three little outbursts of passion she has allowed herself in your favor, she has, by a great effort of imagination, seen in you the hero of her dreams, and not yourself as you really are.

When she was later beheaded by the hero Perseus, Chrysaor and Pegasus emerged from her neck.

In the Theogony of Hesiod Demeter was united with the hero Iasion in Crete and she bore Ploutos.

According to Silius Italicus, she was the virginal daughter of Bebryx, a king in Mediterranean Gaul by whom the hero Hercules was given hospitality during his quest to steal the cattle of Geryon during his famous Labors.

She also tells him she is leaving Mars, and that Parker should enjoy his new status as a hero .< ref > Parker: So.

Gretzky's mother Phyllis is of English descent and she is related to British General Sir Isaac Brock, a hero of the War of 1812.

In Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz ( Venus in Furs ), the masochistic hero Severin refers approvingly to the Chevalier's love for Manon even after she has left him for another man.

She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres.

A year later, in 1890, she built a summer palace in the region of Gastouri ( Γαστούρι ) to the south of the city, with the powerful mythical hero Achilles as its central theme.

When the disguised Odysseus returns, she announces in her long interview with the disguised hero that whoever can string Odysseus's rigid bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axe shafts may have her hand.

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

Tall, blonde, blue-eyes, fair, buxom without being heavy, she cut a fine figure of budding womanhood as she swished among the pupils in her fresh, starched summer dress.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

The comfort was short-lived, yet she found herself returning to the assurance whenever her imagination forced images on her too awful to contemplate without the prop of illusion.

Now she could let out the three parakeets without fear they would be stepped on or that Stowey would let them out one of the doors ; ;

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

Eventually such incidents became more sporadic, and more sharply demarcated from her day-after-day behavior, and in one particular session, after several minutes of such behavior -- which, as usual, went on without any accompanying words from her -- she asked, eagerly, `` Did you see Granny ''??

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

The daughters of Spelman, she said, had never known or thought of Spelman without her.

But without waiting for them to try it, she scattered the dogs and shot down the Reef and out across the plain.

But one day, she expected, he would somehow discover, without her having to tell him, that there was such a woman in the world ; ;

Blanche knew all this because the door to Stanley's office was open and, without straining too hard, she could hear everything that was said.

Without looking at him, without looking at anything except Drexel Street directly in front of her, she climbed up into one of those orange streetcars, rode away in it, and never came back.

She said that proved she wasn't to be trusted with a fire in her room, and she could be burned to a crisp without anybody knowing it.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

Standing there she saw Shades of Night come through the trees and stop beside the lodge, silent, almost imperious, her body taut, simply standing without speaking or moving while the wife of Walitzee waited, perhaps denying the dread that moved in her.

Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.