But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

It was her first smile.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

This included Mamma, jolly, generous, and pretty, with whom they all fell in love, just as Papa had first fallen in love with her Mamma before he chose her ; ;

And just as `` Laurie '' Lawrence was first attracted to bright Jo March, who found him immature by her high standards, and then had to content himself with her younger sister Amy, so Joe Jastrow, who had also been writing Henrietta before he came to Johns Hopkins, had to content himself with her younger sister, pretty Rachel.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

Cautiously she sampled her first pineapple and another fruit whose taste she likened to that of `` a rich pear ''.

The first royalty whom Mama ever waited on in the White House was Queen Marie of Rumania, who came to a State dinner given in her honor on October 21, 1926.

Perhaps Mrs. Meynell would do me the undeserved kindness to keep my own copy of the first edition of my first book, with all its mementos of her and the dear ones.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

The Grafin, who was charmed by her, told her, `` Your sister who was here two years ago has quite dark hair.

At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

A young woman who looked like Alix, with her two children.

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.

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.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

They stopped expecting her to die the next minute, but only in the next day or two.

She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.

At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.

Elizabeth Weissmüller eventually filed for, and was granted, a divorce ( various biographies erroneously state that Weissmüller's father died of tuberculosis leaving her a widow ).

" The historian Jasper Ridley, author of several biographies including one on Henry VIII and another on Mary Tudor, goes much further in his dual biography of More and Cardinal Wolsey, The Statesman and the Fanatic, describing More as " a particularly nasty sadomasochistic pervert ," a line of thinking followed by the late Joanna Denny in her 2004 biography of Anne Boleyn.

Despite her popularity and significance, another Tubman biography for adults did not appear for 60 years, until Jean Humez published a close reading of Tubman's life stories in 2003, and Larson and Clinton both published their biographies in 2004.

There have now been more than half a dozen biographies of her, yet a good deal of the basic scholarship of locating and editing her work remains unfinished ; significant unpublished writings of hers are still being found in library archives.

* Anne of the Thousand Days depicts Anne as innocent of the charges ; considered historically correct, per the biographies by Eric W. Ives, Retha Warnicke, Joanna Denny, and Tudor historian David Starkey which all state her innocence of adultery, incest, and witchcraft.

Bonus features on the DVD include a restored version of the 1972 short film " Caravan Holiday " featuring Johnny Young and the Young Talent Team ; full biographies of all 40 Team Members and Johnny Young ; Nicole Kidman's appearance as a guest on the show to promote her 1983 film BMX Bandits ; assorted television commercials featuring members of the team ; footage of some of the Team when they appeared as contestants on the show ; and the full-length clip of sisters Dannii Minogue and Kylie Minogue performing the song " Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves ".

Most biographies, including those written by her daughters, repeat this claim.

Shearer's legacy began to be re-evaluated in the 1990s with the publication of two biographies and the TCM and VHS release of her films, many of them unseen since the implementation of the Production Code some sixty years before.

According to several biographies of Earhart, Putnam investigated this rumor personally but after listening to many recordings of numerous Tokyo Roses, he did not recognize her voice among them.

In 1977 she published her autobiography, A Life of Contrasts and two more biographies in the 1980s.

A story is told in biographies of both men that Strauss's wife Adele approached Brahms with a customary request that he autograph her fan.

She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th century luminaries such as Queen Victoria ( 1964 ), Lord Byron ( 1976 ) and the Duke of Wellington ( 2 vol 1969 ).

Levick is best known to the general public for her biographies of Roman emperors:

Although many biographies state that her birth name was Amelia Jeanne Eagles, her actual birth name was Eugenia Eagles according to both the 1900 and 1910 United States Federal Censuses for Kansas City, Missouri.

More recent biographies by John Klier, Robert Massie and Greg King that describe her as an impostor were written after the DNA tests proved she was not Anastasia.

# Domesticity – A woman's proper sphere was the home where a wife created a refuge for her husband and children ; Needlework, cooking, making beds, and tending flowers were considered proper feminine activities whereas reading of anything other than religious biographies was discouraged

*" Dorothy Day Library " Includes biographies, photos, and an indexed, searchable collection of most of her writings.

The 90th anniversary of her first flight, July 23, 2011, was commemorated by a reading of parts of her biographies and an exhibition of model aircraft at Miller Field ( Staten Island, New York ), a former United States Air Force facility.

Some biographies say the loss of her mother had caused underlying childhood trauma, revealed through periods of depression and risky behavior.

Elspeth MacGregor Cameron ( born 10 Jan 1943 ) is a Canadian writer known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Irving Layton and Earle Birney.

Thatcher has published biographies of both her parents.

Clarke helped her publish her first literary review in the Western Messenger in June: criticisms of recent biographies on George Crabbe and Hannah More.