They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.

She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

`` I'm a mess '', she said, and suddenly she was alarmed.

He treats her like she was dirt.

He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.

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.

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

He had forgotten that she was so pretty.

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.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.

If there was such a person, I'm afraid she got away with it.

`` I asked her why she couldn't do it tomorrow, but it seems the muse is working good tonight and she's afraid to let it go ''.

In her dark, scornful fashion she proceeded to her destination, afraid of nothing, not even the evil spirits which kept her company in her time of bleeding.

The gods were afraid of them, except for Artemis who captured a fine deer ( or in another version of the story, she changed herself into a doe ) and jumped out between them.

When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers were afraid she would cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job.

Elin discovers that she is attracted to Agnes, but is afraid to admit it.

Scarlett tells Prissy to go find Rhett, but she is afraid to " go runnin ' roun ' in de dahk ".

From then on, Scarlett and Rhett sleep in separate bedrooms, and when Bonnie is two years old, she sleeps in a little bed beside Rhett's bed ( with the light on all night long because she is afraid of the dark ).

His relationship with his mother was rocky ; she had high expectations of him and was afraid her children might end up a dead alcoholic like her brother.

I'm not political .’” However, when Riefenstahl later claimed she had been forced to follow Goebbels ’ orders under threat of being sent to a concentration camp, Schulberg asked her why she should have been afraid if she did not know concentration camps existed.

Never afraid to fight for what she believed in, Lee passionately insisted that musicians be equitably compensated for their work.

When Paris succeeded in getting her to open up, she admitted that she's afraid her husband will find living with two Klingons too difficult and will leave her the way her father did.

Ninette de Valois, no shrinking violet, said she was too afraid to ever look him in the face.

She is not at all afraid of the death he threatens her with ( and eventually carries out ), but she is afraid of how her conscience will smite her if she does not do this.

" As she recovered, her ladies-in-waiting kept Lord Snowdon away from her, afraid that seeing him would distress her further.

Mama tried to talk to them and keep them quiet while she tidied up the sitting room before the First Family returned.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

First thing I knew he was in the kitchenette cooking up the breakfast and I was handing Eileen her coffeecup and she was lying there handsome as a queen among her courtiers.

First married to Michael VII Doukas and secondly to Nikephoros III Botaneiates, she was preoccupied with the future of her son by Michael VII, Constantine Doukas.

In 2008 she was awarded the Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award by the Ford Hall Forum.

First stating " I'm sure they exist ", she later went on to say, chuckling, " Well, I'm a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist ", and finally: " You know, why isn't there a body?

* The Iris Robinson scandal in which First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson stepped aside for six weeks in January 2010 following revelations of his wife ’ s involvement in an extramarital affair, her attempted suicide and allegations that he had failed to properly declare details of loans she had procured for her lover to develop a business venture.

Subsequently, she established herself in romantic comedies such as The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates.

As queen, Eadgyth undertook the usual state duties of " First lady ": when she turns up in the records it is generally in connection with gifts to the state's favoured monasteries or memorials to female holy women and saints.

Jacqueline Kennedy led an effort to redecorate and restore the White House while she was First Lady.

First he attacks Mothra and sends her flying as she tries to escape.

First, she appreciated the variety of ideas he had used for earlier projects.

Author Matteo Bandello wrote that she was " supreme among women ", and the diplomat Niccolò da Correggio entitled her " The First Lady of the world ".

With the White House still under construction, she advised as to its furnishings and sometimes served as First Lady for ceremonial functions for President Thomas Jefferson, a widower and their friend.

When her husband was president, she created the role of First Lady, using her social talents to advance his program.

First she invited him to her plantation in 1877 near Biloxi, Mississippi at a time when he was ailing, and gave him a cottage to use for working on his memoir.

He proposed to her at the end of September and they were married on November 5 of that year at the First United Methodist Church in Midland, the same church in which she had been baptized.

First appearing in Chapter XIII, she saves the protagonist from torture and sacrifice.

John Knox attacked her in The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regimen of Women, published in 1558, and she was prominently featured and vilified in Actes and Monuments, published by John Foxe in 1563, six years after her death.

In 1988, she became the first First Lady invited to address the United Nations General Assembly, where she spoke on international drug interdiction and trafficking laws.

At the end of her time as First Lady, however, she said that her husband had not been well-served by his staff.

Compared to fellow First Ladies when their husbands left office, Reagan's approval was higher than those of Rosalynn Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton, however she was less popular than Barbara Bush and her disapproval rating was double that of Carter's.