When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

In one extreme case, cited by a Pittsburgh psychologist, an office worker's wife refused to have sexual relations with her husband unless he bought her the luxuries she demanded.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

The company went bankrupt in 1924 and was bought by Lady Charnwood, who put her son John Benson on the board.

W. Clement Stone's mother bought a small Detroit insurance agency, and in 1918 brought her son into the business.

In 1890 the firm of Hildesheimer and Faulkner bought several of her drawings of her rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, to illustrate verses by Frederic Weatherly titled A Happy Pair.

With William Heelis acting for her she bought contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top Farm.

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

Love then bought her neighbor Lisa Roberts a bass guitar, and recruited drummer Caroline Rue at a Gwar concert.

After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut ( later Montville ), where she bought much land.

A trained teacher, Anna was excited by the program and bought a set of blocks for her family.

The Wimseys honeymoon at Talboys, a house in east Hertfordshire near where Harriet had lived as a child, that Peter has bought for her as a wedding present.

Becoming the team's majority stockholder in 1973, Hess bought Philip H. Iselin's share upon his death in 1976 after which only two of Hess ' partners remained, Townsend Martin and Helen Dillon, who had inherited the stake from her father Donald Lillis, upon his death.

Her father bought this " machine ", of which Cruz recalls that it was very rare to own one in her neighborhood at the time.

In 2004, while filming The Grudge in Japan, Gellar visited the famous Japanese swordsmith Shoji Yoshihara ( Kuniie III ) and bought a katana from him as a birthday present for her husband.

He married Berthe Sadie Delmont, known as Toots, on 12 August 1936, and her father Joseph Delmont, a wealthy Johannesburg businessman, bought a salon for James.

In 1910, it was detected in the remains believed to be those of Cora Crippen, wife of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, and was accepted at the time as the cause of her death since her husband was known to have bought some at the start of the year.

Truth sold her home in Northampton in 1857 and bought a house in Harmonia, Michigan, just west of Battle Creek.

Neither the friend who bought the bottle for her, nor the shopkeeper who sold it, were aware of the snail's presence.

Another such story revolved around a man who won an inconsequential amount of money on the pools, and began living an inordinately lavish lifestyle (" I bought the wife a new cover for her ironing board " being one such example of his largesse ), which collapsed when the money inevitably ran out, much to his chagrin (" I wish I'd never set eyes on the money ").

In the mid-1660s, when Newton bought a pair of prisms at a fair near Cambridge, the East India Company was beginning to import indigo dye into England, supplanting the homegrown source of blue dye woad.

Through tickets are available between any pair of stations on the network, and can be bought from any station ticket office.

He bought his first pair of sneakers a few days later.

In 1898, after moving to their newly-built factory, the pair bought a Werner " motorcyclist ", which was produced by French manufacturer Werner Brothers.

Lazarus tells of his visit as an interplanetary cargo trader to a planet with a culture like that of the medieval Middle East ( reminiscent of Citizen of the Galaxy ), whereon he bought a pair of slaves, brother and sister, and immediately manumitted them.

" This thing freaked me out when I was 7 years old ," says Brooks ' character adding, " I bought another pair of glasses just in case that would happen.

Had any of their competitors became aware of what Tower and Munson were up to, they may well have bought up the land the pair were after, and charged exorbitant prices for it.

In Kabul, Afghanistan, a The Wall Street Journal reporter bought a pair of looted computers which had been used by leaders of Al Qaeda to plan assassinations, chemical and biological attacks, and mundane daily activities.

Two weeks after Landini bought his slippers, this pair resurfaced and were offered privately through Christie's to the under-bidder of the Bauman shoes, Philip Samuels of St. Louis, Missouri.

Alexander enjoyed the script and felt it read like a Woody Allen film ; therefore, he did a Woody Allen impression on his audition tape, and bought a pair of glasses to better resemble the character.

The pair were jailed in 1992 for " publishing obscene material for gain " and " being in possession of obscene material " following a sting operation in which an undercover police officer joined the companies mailing list and over a period of more than a year regularly bought videos to ensure that the operation was " an on-going tax free profitable business ".

Capital Radio set about increasing Xfm's listening figures, recruiting famous DJs such as Zoë Ball, former BBC Radio 1 presenter Kevin Greening, and re-recruiting comedians Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant who took voluntary redundancy when Capital Radio bought the station, after the pair rose to fame with the first airing of The Office.

* Grew up playing baseball and soccer and didn't start skating until his mother bought a pair of second-hand skates when he was 9 years old for $ 10.

He caught the crocodile ( which he says died from a " fatal case of indigestion ") and had it made into a pair of boots, sold the emerald, and bought the boat he had told Joan was his dream.

It was here that a fan bought him his first proper pair of football boots.

In the 1980s, Walker entered the private sector with Butler-Walker, Inc, a chain of self-named quick oil change franchises later bought by Jiffy Lube and a pair of troubled Savings and Loans.

He bought a pair of shears and trimmed the tops off the loops, thus creating hooks that would match up perfectly with the loops.

The pair also bought a yacht and sailed the Caribbean for over a year.

McBrain recalls that he was eleven or twelve before his father bought him his first drum kit, " which was basically one snare, one tom-tom, one cymbal, two drumsticks and a pair of brushes.

All they had was a pair with red frames, and being in a hurry, she bought them.

In 1844 the zoo received its first giraffe, and in 1855 it bought its first pair of lions.

She sends John an invitation, but he's not convinced to go until his wife leaves out a pair of dancing shoes that she bought him.

When one stock in a pair outperforms the other, the poorer performing stock is bought long with the expectation that it will climb towards its outperforming partner, the other is sold short.

In the UK around 1982, the Sansui AU-D101 amplifier and its more powerful sibling the AU-D33, were highly acclaimed by audiophiles and were so well matched to a pair of KEF Coda III speakers that they could be bought as a set from some outlets.

Buying two other nearby papers ( the weekly Port Arthur News and the daily Orange Leader ), the pair boosted the Journal circulation and eventually Hobby bought the Journal.