Her body and wings as males, but she may have brown / wine colouring on feathers.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

Her blond hair was frowzy, her dress torn in several places, and her shoes were so completely worn out that they were practically no protection.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

Her mouth, which had been so much in my thoughts, was warm and moist and tender.

Her heart, her maternal feeling, in fact her being was too busy expressing itself, as quietly thrilled by this sight of her Nicolas curled asleep under a blanket, in a park like a scene from Poussin.

Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.

Her thick hair was the color and texture of charcoal.

Her laugh was hard.

Her face was pale but set and her dark eyes smoldered with blame for Ben.

Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to cut loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the water.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

( Her account was later confirmed by the Scobee-Frazier Expedition from the University of Manitoba in 1951.

Her mother was a good manager and established a millinery business in Milwaukee.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

Her mother, now dead, was my good friend and when she came to tell us about her plans and to show off her ring I had a sobering wish to say something meaningful to her, something her mother would wish said.

Her action was involuntary.

Her name was Mollie.

Her speech was barren of southernisms ; ;

Her quarters were on the right as you walked into the building, and her small front room was clogged with heavy furniture -- a big, round, oak dining table and chairs, a buffet, with a row of unclaimed letters inserted between the mirror and its frame.

Her hair was dyed, and her bloom was fading, and she must have been crowding forty, but she seemed to be one of those women who cling to the manners and graces of a pretty child of eight.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

Her attire often consisted of " thrift shop " babydoll dresses, and her face adorned with smeared makeup ; MTV reporter Kurt Loder described her as looking like " a debauched rag doll ".

Her 1872 work, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language by Martin Amis and by Julian Barnes.

Her music is described as monophonic ; that is, consisting of exactly one melodic line.

Her husband described the family as interested in progressive social causes.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

Her portrayal of a troubled theatre-goer in Secret Friends ( BBC 2, 1990 ) was described as " a miniature tour de force ... Miranda Richardson's finest hour, all in ten minutes " ( The Sunday Times ).

Her sister, Bellatrix Lestrange and cousin Sirius Black were described as being incredibly beautiful before going to Azkaban, as were all members of the Black family.

Her performance in the West End production of A Streetcar Named Desire, described by the theatre writer Phyllis Hartnoll as " proof of greater powers as an actress than she had hitherto shown ", led to a lengthy period during which she was considered one of the finest actresses in British theatre.

* September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as " The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4 ″ in diameter ; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.

Her family described her as shy and lacking in self-confidence.

Her father was Teackle Wallis Warfield, fifth and youngest son of Henry Mactier Warfield, a flour merchant described as " one of the best known and personally one of the most popular citizens of Baltimore " who ran for mayor in 1875.

Her brother William was a Lutheran but the family was unaligned religiously, with her mother, the Duchess Maria described as a " strict Catholic.

Her father, popularly known as " Good King René " was Duke of Anjou and titular King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem ; he has been described as " a man of many crowns but no kingdoms ".

Her father, King Philip, known as " le Bel " ( the Fair ) because of his good looks, was a strangely unemotional man ; contemporaries described him as " neither a man nor a beast, but a statue "; modern historians have noted that he " cultivated a reputation for Christian kingship and showed few weaknesses of the flesh ".

Her first biographer, a Jesuit named Engelbert Keilert, described her as smart, well-versed, and able to read and write and correspond with church officials.

Her 1945 scat recording of " Flying Home " arranged by Vic Schoen would later be described by The New York Times as " one of the most influential vocal jazz records of the decade .... Where other singers, most notably Louis Armstrong, had tried similar improvisation, no one before Miss Fitzgerald employed the technique with such dazzling inventiveness.

Her height is described as five apples and her weight as three apples.

Her twin sister Mimmy is described as " shy and very girly ," interested in sewing and dreaming of marriage.

Her use of repetition is ascribed to her search for descriptions of the " bottom nature " of her characters, such as in The Making of Americans where the narrator is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as " As I was saying " and " There will be now a history of her.

In My Life, Chagall described his first meeting her: " Her silence is mine, her eyes mine.

" Her memoir concluded with a letter to her daughter, in which she addressed her several times as " Hyman ", and described her actions as " a glaring lack of loyalty and thanks for the very privileged life I feel you have been given ".

Her mastery is unparalleled when it comes to the seduction of certain powerful individuals, but popular criticism supports the notion that " as far as Cleopatra is concerned, the main thrust of the play's action might be described as a machine especially devised to bend her to the Roman will ... and no doubt Roman order is sovereign at the end of the play.

Her voice has been described as mezzo-soprano, of near-flawless tonal quality, capable of lending itself to a variety of musical styles with apparent ease.

Her long and rambling recollection seemed nonsensical, but readers noticed that it more or less accurately described everything that had happened-just not as anyone else would have explained it.