After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.

Then, with a shrug of pretended indifference, she took a compact from her purse and went through the motions of fixing her make-up.

The cavernous depth, cluttered with antiques, echoed to her hard heels as she walked directly to the office in the rear and took the seat at his desk.

Even so, it took her several days to force Walter to tell her Nicolas's whereabouts.

Mary Jane took the page from him and began reading it, moving her lips with the words.

She took it grudgingly, her dark eyes baleful as they met his.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

And, as the others began to crawl out from beneath the desks and tend to those wounded, and mark the several killed, he climbed across the debris to Penny and took her hand in his.

when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.

With one hand she held her skirt down while she took Jack's extended hand with the other.

Delphine Lalaurie took the reins in her gloved hands and drove Dandy Brandon -- cowering in the back seat of the carriage -- to her mansion at 677 Perdido Street.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The Prince took her with him on every tour around the area, and it was rumored he was utilizing her knowledge of Constantinople as part of his espionage network.

Morgan took the suggested steps, but when Mrs. Sanderson appeared, there was nobody with her but her husband, whom he promptly sent to headquarters to be questioned.

She remarked that she found the night wind a little chilly, and Mr. Podger took her inside the fringe.

Eyes swerved in the patronne's head, Alex coughed loudly, and the doctor, with a sforzando of chicken noises floating behind him, took to the stairs in long-shanked leaps.

At that time test-match referees came from the home nation, substitutions took place only if a doctor found a player unable to continue and there were no video cameras or sideline officials to prevent violent play.

He believed that not all learned individuals were qualified to doctor others, and while ministers took on several roles in the early years of the colony, including that of caring for the sick, they were now expected to stay out of state and civil affairs.

At the suggestion of his doctor, he took up swimming to help battle the disease.

In 1795 he took the degree of doctor of philosophy, and in the same year, though possessing little money, he married.

Intending to become a doctor of medicine he entered the University of St Andrews, where he took his degree of M. D.

His father ( a lawyer ) later discouraged him from continuing as a doctor and René then had a period of time where he took long walks in the country, danced, studied Greek and wrote poetry.

He took the initiative to remove the woman's womb ; however, as she had not given informed consent for this operation, the doctor was judged by the General Medical Council to have acted negligently.

It took a doctor more than 24 hours to diagnose acute appendicitis and a surgeon operated immediately.

My weight distressed my mother and she took me to a doctor who put me on Dexedrine diet pills when I was ten years old.

The doctor took Johann to an orphanage, where the child led a lonely existence.

Jane and a doctor removed Pugin from Bedlam and took him to a private house in Hammersmith where they attempted therapy, and he recovered sufficiently to recognise his wife.

However, in an interview given in the 1980s, he bemoaned the lack of good character parts for aging stars, and readily admitted that he now took on roles mostly for the money, such as his roles in the horror potboilers The Swarm, in which he played a doctor, and Dracula's Dog, in which he played a police inspector.

Bradwardine was a precocious student, educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he was a fellow by 1321 ; he took the degree of doctor of divinity, and acquired the reputation of a profound scholar, a skilful mathematician and an able theologian.

He spent two years at Rangoon University beginning in 1929, and took biology as his main subject with hopes of becoming a doctor.

He took no real interest in his studies and never practised as a doctor, moving instead to London in 1885, to try to become a writer.

In 1540-1541 he visited the famous medical university of Montpellier, took his degree of doctor of medicine ( 1541 ) at Basel, and then settled down to practise at Zürich, where he obtained the post of lecturer in physics at the Carolinum, the precursor of the University of Zürich.

Linacre took the degree of doctor of medicine with great distinction at Padua.

Swanson took ill shortly after and met a doctor who started her lifelong love of macrobiotic diets.

The courtier John Evelyn, who had occasionally corresponded with Browne, took good use of the Royal visit to call upon the learned doctor of European fame and wrote of his visit:

He completed his studies in Berlin, and took the degree of doctor juris in Königsberg.

McElwee's brother is a successful doctor ; on a visit to his brother's practice, Ross talks with his brother about their father's death, which took them both by surprise.

Originally set to become a doctor, Hanssen took the opportunity to enroll in the dental school at Northwestern University.

He then took the degree of doctor in divinity, defending as his thesis the two propositions: Nullum fidei Christianae dogma, in Sacris Scripturis traditum, est rectae rationi dissentaneum, and Sine actionum humanarum libertate nulla potest esse religio.

Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

Greg himself took two flights, with Todman leading the second, to patrol and look for targets of opportunities around Ormoc on the east coast of Leyte.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

Accordingly, they took special pains to preserve their papers as essential sources for posterity.

The writer took a class of college students to the state hospital for the mentally ill in St. Joseph, Missouri.

In his own words, Bang-Jensen ' took it for granted that the Group would report to the Secretary General privately and not in public.

All Captain Gibault took back to Salem were a few items for the town's East India Museum.

Oxford, realizing that the law required the issuance of the writ, took the opposite view, for which the Queen never forgave him.

It generally took well into the autumn for the firm to recover from the summer's help.

The water was deep and Brownlow took his troopers across naked -- except for guns, cartridge boxes and hats.

And then it took considerably longer to make preparations for giving transfusions.

These chatty merchants made amusing and instructive traveling companions, for their business took them to all four corners of the globe, and Florentine gossip had already reached a high stage of development as even a cursory glance at the Inferno will prove.

But at the touch of Hume and Voltaire the noble or hideous visitations which had haunted the mind since Agamemnon's blood cried out for vengeance, disappeared altogether or took tawdry refuge among the gaslights of melodrama.

Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

No one, he wrote, took any corn of Greville's, for his bailiff of husbandry `` swore a greate oathe thatt who soe came to put hys hande into hys sackes for anye corne shuld leave hys hande behynde hym ''.

Brooks Adams preferred the chronicles of Froissart or the style and theorizing of Edward Gibbon, for at least they took a stand on the issues about which they wrote.

Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.

Lewis gave him a guidebook tour of London and, motoring and walking, took him to Stratford, but the London stay was for only ten days, and on the twentieth they took the train for Southampton, where they spent the night for an early morning Channel crossing.