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 music incorporates elements of rock, folk, hip hop, country, and pop.

Her performance received little acclaim, but it convinced Bell, who hated pop music, that Twain should stay well away from it and concentrate on country music.

Her work often utilizes classical music, jazz and contemporary pop music.

Her music has been successful in multiple formats including pop, country and adult contemporary and has sold an estimated over 100 million albums worldwide.

Her first hit came in early 1955, with the Latin-tempo " Tweedlee Dee " reaching # 4 on the R & B chart and # 14 on the national US pop charts.

Her last top ten single on the pop charts was 1963's " Losing You " ( No. 6 ), while she continued to have other chart songs such as her 1966 song " Coming On Strong " and " Is It True?

Her hit recordings included blues, standards, novelties, pop covers, and even a version of Hank Williams ' " Cold, Cold Heart " ( R & B Number 3, 1951 ).

Her last big hit was " September in the Rain " in 1961 ( Number 23 pop, Number 5 R & B ).

Her recording of " Tenderly " became an unexpected pop hit in late 1947.

Her fourth single, " Anyone Who Had a Heart ," released in December 1963, was Warwick's first top 10 pop hit (# 8 ) in the U. S. and also an international hit.

Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s.

However he was also an innovator, being one of the first to employ synthesizers in a film score ( On Her Majesty's Secret Service ), and to make wide use of pop artists and songs in Midnight Cowboy.

Her status as one of the music industry's biggest pop divas was further solidified when she was asked to perform on VH1's Divas Live special in 1998, with superstars Aretha Franklin, Gloria Estefan, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey.

Her first English studio album since 2003's One Heart, it features pop, R & B, and rock inspired music.

Her music has been influenced by numerous genres, including pop, rock, gospel, R & B and soul, and her lyrics focus on themes of poverty, world hunger, and spirituality, with an emphasis on love and romance.

Her version enjoyed a fourteen-week run on Billboard's R & B Charts in 1948 and 1949, reaching number 2 on the R & B charts and number 6 on the pop charts.

However, Mother Fist and Her Fiver Daughters, released in 1987, picked up where the Mambas had left off in 1983, and since then Almond has always traversed effortlessly between pop ( such The Stars We Are ( 1988 ) to chanson such as Jacques ( 1989 ) and avant garde ( such as Heart On Snow ( 2003 )).

Her 2000 release I Hope You Dance, however, was an entirely different sound, using pop music elements instead of traditional country, helping to establish Womack as a pop crossover artist.

In 1995, pop singer Alain Souchon recorded the song Arlette Laguiller, commenting that " Her words, of course, may be a little worn-out " but praising her " peppermint-fresh " way of expressing them, and indicating that " When Arlette sings, you feel a real sense of love ".

Her second album, SLA2 / Be Sample ( 1992 ), was one of the earliest Brazilian pop records to extensively employ the sampler, and had success with Rio 40 Graus, composed with Fausto Fawcett and Laufer, portraying Rio de Janeiro climate, people and lifestyle.