Her temper sparked like charcoal when it first lights up.

Her first day at work she was puzzled by an entry in the doctor's notes on an emergency case.

Her first class wasn't until ten, but she always got up to have breakfast with me.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

Her first appearance was in a short story published in The Sketch magazine in 1926, " The Tuesday Night Club ", which later became the first chapter of The Thirteen Problems ( 1932 ).

Her first appearance in a full-length novel was in The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

Her reputed last words, uttered as the assassin was about to strike, were " Smite my womb ", the implication here being she wished to be destroyed first in that part of her body that had given birth to so " abominable a son.

Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848.

Her first marriage, at the age of fifteen, was to the son of her father's rival in Italy, Lothair II, the nominal King of Italy ; the union was part of a political settlement designed to conclude a peace between her father and Hugh of Provence, the father of Lothair.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

Her father's grandfather had fled France during the Revolution, going first to Saint-Domingue, then New Orleans, and finally to Cuba where he helped build that country's first railway.

Her first published work was a critical evaluation of D. H. Lawrence called D. H. Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study, which she wrote in sixteen days.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

Her first school was located in a 17th-century house.

Her first act surprises Odrade greatly.

Her mother, Kay Calista, reversed her own first and middle names in naming her Calista Kay.

Her report, Work Accidents and the Law ( 1910 ), became a classic and resulted in the first workers ' compensation law, which she drafted while serving on a New York state commission.

Her first stories appeared in pulp magazines in the 1930s, including two significant series in Weird Tales.

Her first name, Drew, was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgie Drew Barrymore ; her middle name, Blyth, was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Her first country single, " Dumb Blonde " ( one of the few songs during this era, that she recorded but did not write ), reached number twenty-four on the country music charts in 1967, followed the same year with Something Fishy, which went to number seventeen.

Her first entirely self-produced effort, 1977's New Harvest ... First Gathering, highlighted Parton's pop sensibilities, both in terms of choice of songs-the album contained covers of the pop and R & B classics " My Girl " and " Higher and Higher " – and the album's production.

Her live shows are notable for a degree of attitude and for shock acts such as throwing lamb heads in the crowd.

Her services to the School for many years were of a very high character, and I have often thought that one of the buildings should be named for her ''.

In Doris Day: Her Own Story, Day asserts " I was named by my mother in honor of her favorite actress, Doris Kenyon, a silent screen star of that year 1924.

Her silence, however, strengthened her own political security: she knew that if she named an heir, her throne would be vulnerable to a coup ; she remembered that the way " a second person, as I have been " had been used as the focus of plots against her sister, Queen Mary.

Her team of horses pull her chariot across the sky and are named in the Odyssey as Firebright and Daybright.

Her firstborn, a daughter named Isabella, married Afonso of Portugal, forging important ties between these two neighboring countries and hopefully ensuring future alliance, but Isabella soon died before giving birth to an heir.

Her first cousin once removed, also named Lucy Grymes, married Henry Lee II ( who was in fact Peyton Randolph's first cousin once removed ), and was the mother of Henry " Light Horse Harry " Lee, who was the father of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee.

Her mother was also named Marie-Madeline, and this plethora of " Maries " may have been the reason she went by Sophie.

Her son was named Donald Duck and her daughter Della Duck.

Her father's family was originally named " Tomchin ", but took the surname " Horowitz " when they immigrated to America.

Her character stood out as a positive portrayal of a Jewish woman and at the height of her popularity, she fell in love with another woman, a witch named Tara Maclay.

Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.

Her mother is named in at least one source as Elisabeth Moritz, and there is debate as to whether her father was a Swedish officer.

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 involvement with this cause was somewhat surprising because she was introduced to it by a socialist named Margaret McMillan who believed that her dead sister still had a role in guiding her.

Her chief opponent was a passionate man named Mainwaring, known for his rudeness.

Her only son was named James Patrick O ' Leary.

Her doctoral thesis was concerned with the alpha rays of polonium, the element discovered by her parents ( along with radium ) and named after Marie ’ s country of birth, Poland.

Her daughter, also named Clotilde, also died about this time.

Her mother was a laundress named Lyubov Feodorovna.

" Her death came in the Hotel Des Indes in The Hague, which displays a wall plaque and has a cigar lounge named the Anna Pavlova Library in her memory.

Her father named her Li Jinhai because he wanted a son, but this was altered after her birth to Li Shumeng.

Her murder by revolutionaries on 17 July 1918 resulted in her being named as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Her father liked the idea of having daughters named Olga and Tatiana, like the sisters in the famous poem.

Her son is known for having founded a city in Caria which was named after him.