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Her and personal
Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.
Her journals, which span several decades, provide a deeply explorative insight into her personal life and relationships.
Her personal letters to leaders of the Revolution influenced policy ; in addition, she often hosted political gatherings of the Brissotins, a political group which allowed women to join.
Her ambition, personal wit and cleverness won her a distinguished position in society, in spite of her humble origin.
Her personal dilemma becomes entangled with darkly hinted suspicions and prejudices raised by the crimes at the college, which appear to have been committed by a sexually frustrated female don.
Her six-year personal reign was marred by a series of crises, largely caused by the intrigues and rivalries of the leading nobles.
Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made.
Her personal ordeals caused her to become removed from the civil rights movement.
As the sovereign is shared equally with 15 other independent countries in a form of personal union, as well as with the ten other jurisdictions of Canada, and resides predominantly in her oldest realm, the United Kingdom, she, on the advice of her Canadian prime minister only, appoints the governor general to carry out most of her constitutional and ceremonial duties for an unfixed period of time — known as serving at Her Majesty's pleasure — though five years is the normal convention.
Her signature dress of large upturned hat with netting and dresses with draped panels of fabric became a distinctive personal style.
Edward wrote fondly of his mother in his memoirs: " Her soft voice, her cultivated mind, the cosy room overflowing with personal treasures were all inseparable ingredients of the happiness associated with this last hour of a child's day ...
Her personal belongings were transported from London in seventy pieces of luggage.
Her version of the Method is based on the idea that actors should conjure up emotion not by using their own personal memories, but by using the scene's given circumstances.
Her artistic brilliance and personal appeal transcend geographic, cultural and generational boundaries.
Her life becomes entwined with theirs as she cares for Rosa during her pregnancy and works for Huma as her personal assistant and even acts in the play as an understudy for Nina during one of her drug abuse crises.
Her career went through several periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships.
Her tragic cycle Requiem documents her personal experience of this time ; as she writes, " one hundred million voices shout " through her " tortured mouth ".
Her personal account of the struggles of women artists is documented in her published journals, which are a revealing story of the bourgeoisie.
Her grieving husband, ' bowed down and bleeding under the heaviest sorrows and personal distresses ,' buried her thirty feet from the home they shared and planted a lilac tree next to her grave to remember her.
Her style was disciplined and unpretentious, and she disliked personal publicity.
Her personal library was deposited at Bard College at the Stevenson Library in 1976, and includes approximately 4, 000 books, ephemera, and pamphlets from Arendt's last apartment.
Her powers were briefly altered so that she cannot transform to energy, but instead can generate a personal force field.
Her cult was eventually replaced by that of Bast, another cat-goddess, a lioness warrior who was seen as the pharaoh's protector, but her feline imagery continued in association with the pharaohs including personal items and the bed upon which their mummies were placed.
Her personal problems and troubling relationships, however, trapped her in the jaws of sadness leading to her suicide.
In 1987, following a period of personal and professional issues, Robinson made a comeback with the album, One Heartbeat and the singles, " Just to See Her " and " One Heartbeat ", which both peaked at the top ten, with " Just to See Her " winning Robinson his first Grammy Award in 1988.

Her and charms
Her limited charms and conventual upbringing were not potent enough to wean Charles away from the society of his mistresses, and within a few weeks of her arrival she became aware of her difficult position as the wife of a licentious king, but, although Charles continued to have children by his mistresses, he insisted she be treated with respect.
In a famous passage, he delineates Cleopatra's charms in paradoxical terms ( rhetorical antithesis ): " Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety: other women cloy / The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry / Where most she satisfies.
Each of these Yozis is responsible for the creation of one caste of Green Sun Princes and the charms associated with that caste, Malfeas created the Slayers, Cecylene created the Malefactors, She Who Lives in Her Name created the Defilers, Adorjan created the Scourges and the Ebon Dragon created the Fiends.
Her charms were celebrated in verse by contemporary poets, including Thomas Carew, William Cartwright, Robert Herrick and John Suckling, and by Sir Toby Matthew in prose.
Her feminine charms serve as the bait, while her partner Noel Harrison provides the fireworks.
Her feminine charms serve as the bait, while her partner Noel Harrison provides the fireworks.

Her and were
Her eyes were glazed as if she didn't hear or even see him.
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 legs were the full, sexy kind, full bodied like a rare wine and just as tantalizing to the appetite ; ;
Her glance swung past the trailer where the two drivers were standing.
Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.
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 thoughts were not discrete.
Her eyebrows were definite and heavy and formed two lines moving upward toward a high forehead and a great head of brown hair that fell to her shoulders.
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 ''.
Her eyes were bright with anticipation.
Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.
Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong.
Her bright eyes were twinkling.
Her hair never seemed to be in place and her skirts were never quite the correct length.
Her eyes were wild.
Her dark cool caresses were sweeter than any woman's ; ;
Her eyes were smiling, too, but so sadly, and there was tiredness and infinite wisdom in them.
Her extendibles were diverted, connected or augmented and the final, delicate-beyond-description brain taps were completed while Helva remained anesthetically unaware of the proceedings.
Her book titles, changed by American publishers, for example Ten Little Niggers to Ten Little Indians, were kept the same across the Atlantic, after bushels of fan mail.
Her two children by Philip II, Philip, count of Clermont ( died 1234 ), and Mary, who married Philip I of Namur, were legitimized by the pope in 1201 at the request of the king.
Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.
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.

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