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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.
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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.
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 and caught
Her eyes had opened, she had caught a glimpse of a new faith.
`` You're gonna get caught '', she heard Joel say to Uncle Randolph by the pump one morning.
She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.
She was closing and within one more bound would have been able to reach the rear end of the bay, but -- and here Jones and Loveless and Ulyate were holding breath for all they were worth -- she never quite caught up that last bound.
Her veil was caught to a crown, and she carried gardenias and stephanotis.
Her veil was caught to a pearl headdress, and she carried stephanotis and orchids.
She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.
Extending her fingers another inch, she caught up the shorts, and swiftly left the room.
From it she was rescued by a priest named Martin, who dug a subterraneous passage, by which she escaped, and remained concealed in the woods, her rescuer supporting her, meantime, by the fish he caught in the lake.
Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.
There is evidence to suggest that Charlotte died from typhus which she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Brontë household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her.
By 1393, she was writing love ballads, which caught the attention of wealthy patrons within the court.
In sport grappling, a competitor is expected to submit, either verbally or by tapping the opponent, to admit defeat when he is caught in a submission hold that he or she cannot escape.
She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).
After an incident where her dress caught fire on an iron grate when she was about three, her mother began dressing her in boys ' pants, and she was given the nickname " Jimmy " from the comic strip, Little Jimmy.
Miles and Ekaterin are caught up in the plot, but she proves to be just as effective as Miles in derailing their enemies ' plans, much to his rapidly growing admiration.
She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two " families ".
* A person who murders a spouse / lover caught in the act of adultery ( only if the murderer has four witnesses, if he / she does, would receive tazir imprisonment ).
she and faced
Here, too, she talked low, quirking her head at one or another of the places, most often at Izaak's armchair which faced her across the long table.
She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;
As long as her development within her shell lived up to expectations, and there were no side-effects from the pituitary tinkering, Helva would live a rewarding, rich and unusual life, a far cry from what she would have faced as an ordinary, `` normal '' being.
While tormented with sorrow, sixteen-year-old Catherine was now faced with her parents ' wish that she marry Bonaventura's widower.
When she tried to collect money from her husband ’ s estate, she faced complicated lawsuits regarding the recovery of salary due her husband.
Her position as a Marchesa required her serious attention, therefore she was required to study the problems faced by a ruler of a city-state.
She has faced death numerous times in the history of the series, the first being when, in her guise as Marvel Girl, she died and was " reborn " as Phoenix, which in time led to her second-though not last-death in the classic " Dark Phoenix Saga ".
In May she went public with this information in order to highlight the struggle faced by so many other successful women and to dispel false rumors that had been very painful for her friends and family.
When Matilda advanced to London in an effort to stage her coronation in June, though, she faced an uprising by the local citizens in support of Stephen that forced her to flee to Oxford, uncrowned.
Elizabeth came under pressure from Parliament to execute Mary, Queen of Scots, to prevent any further attempts to replace her ; though faced with several official requests, she vacillated over the decision to execute an anointed queen.
Tamar was proclaimed heir apparent and co-ruler by her reigning father George III in 1178, but she faced significant opposition from the aristocracy upon her ascension to full ruling powers after George's death.
Powell also attributed Thatcher's success to luck, saying that she was faced with " supremely unattractive opponents at the time ".
Weathering constant criticism of her ideas for decades, Margulis is famous for her tenacity in pushing her theory forward, despite the opposition she faced at the time.
When a child is faced with this difficulty he or she is less likely to read, thus further inhibiting the growth of their vocabulary.
Economists say that a consumer is ' prudent ' if he or she saves more when faced with riskier future income.
Without a certificate, he or she faced deportation.
He noted that his colleague Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy had faced social condemnation before she formalised her marriage to Ben Elmy.
After helping her husband with another unsuccessful parliamentary campaign, Pankhurst faced legal troubles in 1896 when she and two men violated a court order against ILP meetings at Boggart Hole Clough.
Cleopatra, being the complex figure that she is, has faced a variety of interpretations of character throughout history.
In a 1998 rematch, she heavily defeated Dornan and has not faced serious opposition since.
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