That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

Satisfied at last, and after a few amorous gambits on her part which convinced Delphine that Dandy was capable of learning new arts, she opened the window and called to her liveried driver.

She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

Even now I will not intrude upon her except to state a few bare facts.

A few years before his death Papa had agreed with Mama to make a joint will with her in which it would be provided that in the event of the death of either of them an accounting would be made to their children whereby each child would receive a bequest of $5000 cash.

And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

The infant, in white terry-cloth bathrobe, her face intense and purposeful, had essayed a few wobbly steps toward her father.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

Even in its most conventional appearance, the guests' song of praise to Marina, there are a few female dissenters criticizing the princess for her coldness.

After her father's death, Lucy and her youngest sister lived for a few years with Winslow in Washington, D.C..

`` I've been after her for years '', Needham said, `` but I've never been able to get anywhere until the last few days ''.

Years ago when I asked her to put me in Social Security, so's I wouldn't have to be working now, Miss Julia threatened to fire me -- all because it would mean a few more dollars a year to her ''.

A middle aged woman opened a window on the third floor of her house which was behind the wall, she threw out a few belongings and then jumped ; ;

The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

Faulkner's low-class characters had but few counterparts in earlier Southern novels dealing with plantation life.

James Hadley Chase wrote a few novels with private eyes as the main hero, including Blonde's Requiem ( 1945 ), Lay Her Among the Lilies ( 1950 ), and Figure It Out for Yourself ( 1950 ).

There are early mystery novels in which a police force attempts to contend with the type of criminal known in the 1920s as a homicidal maniac, such as a few of the early novels of Philip Macdonald and Ellery Queen's Cat of Many Tails.

In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch " one of the few English novels written for grown-up people ".

These experiences were described in Typee, Omoo, and White-Jacket, which were published as novels mainly because few believed their veracity.

A few authors have used " idiot " characters in novels, plays and poetry.

Shards of Honor and Barrayar concern Miles ' parents, while " Dreamweaver ’ s Dilemma " concerns a distant ancestor of Cordelia Naismith, Ethan of Athos involves a few minor characters from other Vorkosigan novels, and Falling Free does not involve Miles or any of his family, though in a later novel, Miles encounters the descendants of the characters from Falling Free.

Before the Nobel Prize only a few of his novels had appeared in the West.

Balls occur in her novels and are discussed in her letters, but specifics are few.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

Though few would claim " utopian " status, intentional communities are groups of people who strive for a more ideal life in some way, and are inspired by a similar urge to that found in utopian novels.

His novels contain, within imaginary worlds and situations, a strong satire of Italian society over the last few decades.

Winegardner uses all of the characters from the Puzo novels, and created a few of his own, most notably Nick Geraci, a Corleone soldier who plays a pivotal role in the sequel novels.

After Gygax left TSR in 1985, he continued to write a few more Gord the Rogue novels, which were published by New Infinities Productions: Sea of Death ( 1987 ), City of Hawks ( 1987 ), and Come Endless Darkness ( 1988 ).

The precise nature of the Dark Powers of Ravenloft is never explicitly described in the game material, with the exception of a few of the novels based on the setting, and even those are considered non-canon.

However, over the years Drow have accidentally appeared in a few Dragonlance modules and novels.

He basically pictured the boy scouts only in few of his novels ( especially Pod junackou vlajkou a Devadesatka pokracuje ), preferring to write mostly about his own invention, the boy clubs.

Foglar novels are picturing almost exclusively male world with generally no women ( with few exceptions of marginal women persons-like old grannys or small girls, often without names ).

The novel is one of the few of Miss Edgeworth's novels which her father did not ' edit '.

Kidd has also written a few comedic novels about life among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including Paradise Vue and Return to Paradise, and children's books such as The Inkeeper's Daughter.

He appeared in a few episodes of Perry Mason as well as in the novels.

Flagg, whose first name is not identified here but is Randall in other books, can be found in some form in quite a few of King's novels.