Her portrait depicts her at prayer in her richly furnished private closet behind her chamber.

Her prayer was granted and as she spoke she was transformed into the myrrh tree.

Her parents were strict about church attendance, and every Sunday she spent the day there, first at morning services, followed by Sunday school, an afternoon prayer meeting, and an evening study group for children.

Her schooling was rather brief, but all those who knew her noticed that she felt drawn to prayer from an early age.

Her exquisite lace and embroidery also helped to care for the poor, while her nights were devoted to prayer and penance in a little grotto which she had built.

Her prayer was granted, and at 13 years of age Francis fulfilled that votive year.

Her poem " To be a Jew in the Twentieth Century " ( 1944 ), on the theme of Judaism as a gift, was adopted by the American Reform and Reconstructionist movements for their prayer books, something Rukeyser said " astonished " her, as she had remained distant from Judaism throughout her early life.

On 17 August 2005 the official Sahaja Yoga website reported that, on the eve on India's independence day, " an Indian flag was offered to Her and a prayer was recited for the divine blessings and protection of India.

Her prayer was granted.

Her life took a course similar to that of other women who have become great mystics, characterized by an early love of prayer and penance, charity for the poor, and an evangelical spirit.

She daily experienced this conviction of St. Vincent: “ You will go and visit the poor ten times a day, and ten times a day you will find God there ... you go into their poor homes, but you find God there .” Her prayer life was intense, as a Sister affirmed, “... she continually lived in the presence of God.

Her very last diary entry states, “ made a prayer adapted to my case .” < http :// dohistory. org / diary / 1812 / 05 / 18120505_txt. html > The diary was kept in her family, eventually coming into the care of her great-great-granddaughter, Mary Hobart, one of America ’ s first female physicians who graduated from the New York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1884, the same year that she received the diary.

Her vision was to begin a religious community, made up of women from all social strata, that would merge the ideals of saints Martha and Mary, dedicated both to prayer and to serving the needs of the poor.

Once Her prayer was completed, She walked to the altar and continued to pray.

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 request was eventually answered by Tionne Watkins, a native of Des Moines, Iowa, who moved to Atlanta with her family at an early age, and Lisa Lopes, a rapper who had just moved to the city from her native Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with only a keyboard and US $ 750 ($ today ).

Her final question was whether experience or education serves a person better in life to which she answered " Definitely experience because you get your knowledge through experience.

Her participation in Miss Venezuela also became notorious when she was asked during the traditional " breakfast with press " the day after the pageant, because of her degree, which Venezuelan playwright she liked the most, to which she answered, " Gabriel García Márquez ", a Colombian writer.

-- Her choice of one color means she is simply enjoying the motor act of coloring, without having reached the point of selecting suitable colors for different objects.

Her hair was the color of those blooms which in seed catalogues are referred to as `` black '', but since no flower is actually without color contain always a hint of grape or purple or blue -- he wanted to draw the broad patina of hair through his fingers, searching it slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its true shade beneath the darkness.

Her stewardship of these farms earned her wide regard, but she was not without her critics.

" Her portraits Fanny Travis Cochran, Dorothea and Francesca, and Ernesta and her Little Brother, are fine examples of her skill in painting children ; Ernesta with Nurse, one of a series of essays in luminous white, was a highly original composition, seemingly without precedent.

Her strong technique, her perceptive reading of her subjects, and her ability to flatter without falsifying, were traits similar to his.

Her custom of giving away food and clothing without asking anyone's permission cost her family significantly but she demanded nothing for herself.

Her daughter Imogen has been quoted as saying " The truth is Enid Blyton was arrogant, insecure, pretentious, very skilled at putting difficult or unpleasant things out of her mind, and without a trace of maternal instinct.

Her classical education left its mark ; Christopher Stray has observed that " George Eliot's novels draw heavily on Greek literature ( only one of her books can be printed correctly without the use of a Greek typeface ), and her themes are often influenced by Greek tragedy ".

Her sister claimed the crown, but Sigismund retained it without much difficulty.

Her father, Henry VIII, had replaced 40 percent of the silver in the coin with base metals, to increase the government ’ s income without raising taxes.

Edward married Wallis six months later, after which she was formally known as the Duchess of Windsor, without the style " Her Royal Highness ".

Her next event was the 2000 Australian Open, which she won in singles without the loss of a set.

Her characterisation of Lear is that of a child being mothered, but without real mothers, his children become the daughter-mother figures.

Her readership generally did not know her later opus, the railing passion of Requiem or Poem without a Hero and her other scathing works, which were shared only with a very trusted few or circulated in secret by word of mouth ( samizdat ).

Her father Asmund, a priest of the old Norse gods, opposes the match, thinking Eric a man without prospects.

However, Section 2 regards the ' British flag ', and states that " The flag which every British ship is entitled to fly is the Red Ensign ( without any defacement or modification ) and, subject to ( a warrant from Her Majesty or from the Secretary of State, or an Order of Council from her Majesty regarding a defaced Red Ensign ), no other colours.

Her husband turns out to be a bully, an angry and violent man without any sense of humour who makes her and their children work very hard on the farm.

This high number of awards for bravery has been interpreted as a reaction to the earlier defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana-the extolling of the victory at Rorke's Drift drawing the public's attention away from the great defeat at Isandlwana and the fact that Lord Chelmsford and Bartle Frere had instigated the war without the approval of Her Majesty's Government.

Her home, the Barker House, is open seven days a week, without a fee, and is considered by many as Edenton's living room.

Her two sons were to figure prominently in the empire which their father built in northern Europe, though not without opposition.

Her style has been described as " arsenic without the old lace ".

Her family was poor, living hand-to-mouth ; she shared a bed with her two siblings in a series of three-room houses without running water.

Her tenure as de facto ruler of China ( first through her husband and then through her sons, from 665 to 690 ), was not without precedent, in Chinese history ; however, she broke precedents when she founded her own dynasty in 690, the Zhou ( 周 ) ( interrupting the Tang Dynasty ), ruling personally under the name Sacred and Divine Empress Regnant ( 聖神皇帝 ), and variations thereof, from 690 to 705.

Her piano works are often in the manner of songs, and many carry the name Lied ohne Worte ( Song without Words ).