Her own body protested, aching painfully where the blood in her veins had congealed, where cold demon wisps still clung and caressed.

At first Matilda could not believe her own eyes.

His sailing vessel is guided by fate to the shores of his own country at a time when Sibylla's domain is overrun by the armies of one of her rejected suitors.

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.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

the intellectual honesty and capacity to recognize the true path of her own best interests.

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.

My own stern hand has rent the ancient bond, And thereof shall the ending not have end: But not for me, that loved her, to be fond Lightly to please me with a newer friend Then hold it more than bravest-feathered song, That I affirm to thee, with heart of pride, I knew not what did to a friend belong Till I stood up, true friend, by thy true side ; ;

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.

The mother of a difficult child can do a great deal to help her own child and often, by sharing her experiences, she can help other mothers with the same problem.

If he snatches a toy, she says, `` Caroline wants her own truck just as you do ''.

Selena Masters, Joe realized, was her own woman.

Kate felt she had deserted the boy in her own loss.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

`` But brother I can't take a job right now '', she said with her eyes on her ice cream, `` I'm going to have a baby, Francis Xavier's baby, my own husband's baby ''.

Once her trembling hand, with the pen grasped tight in it, was pressed against the paper the words came sharply, smoothly, as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips.

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.

Virgilia Peterson, a critic by trade, has turned her critical eye pitilessly and honestly on herself in an autobiography more of the mind and heart than of specific events.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

Every book followed a different train of thought, from inspiration to solution, according to her autobiography.

Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.

In the 15th century, Leonor López de Córdoba, a Spanish noblewoman, wrote her Memorias, which may be the first autobiography in Castillian.

The earliest known autobiography in English is the early 15th-century Booke of Margery Kempe, describing among other things her pilgrimage to the Holy Land and visit to Rome.

While an autobiography typically focuses on the " life and times " of the writer, a memoir has a narrower, more intimate focus on his or her own memories, feelings and emotions.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

The sequence implicitly labeled Baez a limousine liberal, a charge she took to heart, as detailed years later in her 1987 autobiography, And A Voice To Sing With: A Memoir.

In her 1980 autobiography, Shelley Winters claimed to have had a long affair with him.

In her autobiography, Retrospection and Introspection, she wrote:

Twain also expressed grave doubts about the authorship of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, showing through content analysis that the quality of the writing was much better than any of Eddy's previous or subsequent work ( for example her autobiography and her later writings in the Christian Science Journal ):

" Barrymore later described this period of her life in her autobiography, Little Girl Lost.

Day would later call it, in her autobiography, her best film.

In 1975, Day released her autobiography, Doris Day: Her Own Story, an " as-told-to " work with A. E. Hotchner.

After publishing her autobiography, Day married one last time.

She was the wife of Sir Michael Redgrave and mother of Vanessa, Lynn and Corin, and published her autobiography, Life Among the Redgraves, in 1988.

As documented in her 1994 autobiography, initially, much of Wagoner's audience was unhappy, that Norma Jean, the performer whom Parton had replaced, had left the show, and was reluctant to accept Parton ( sometimes chanting loudly for Norma Jean from the audience ).

Dolores Fuller's autobiography, A Fuller Life: Hollywood, Ed Wood and Me, co-authored by Winnipeg writer Stone Wallace and her husband Philip Chamberlin, was published in 2008.

Since her death in 1968 and the publication of her daughter Imogen's autobiography, A Childhood at Green Hedges, Blyton has emerged as an emotionally immature, unstable and often malicious figure.

He took small roles in three short silent comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles and The Tonic ( all 1928 ) which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells.

Laughton's bisexuality has been corroborated by several of his contemporaries and is generally accepted by Hollywood historians, However, actress Maureen O ' Hara, a friend and co-star of Laughton, claimed that Laughton told her that he and his wife never had children because of a botched abortion which Lanchester had early in her career while performing burlesque and that indeed his biggest regret was never having children of his own.

Lanchester studied dance as a child and after World War I began performing in theatre and cabaret, where she established her career over the following decade.

Following Laughton's death in 1962, Lanchester resumed her career with appearances in such Disney films as Mary Poppins ( 1964 ), That Darn Cat!

In March 1983, Lanchester released her autobiography, entitled Elsa Lanchester Herself.

She claimed Laughton had told her that the reason he and his wife never had children was because of a botched abortion Lanchester had early in her career while performing burlesque.

Lanchester admitted in her autobiography that she had had two abortions in her youth ( one of whom was sired by Laughton ), but it is not clear if these left her incapable of becoming pregnant again.

Lanchester once said of O ' Hara, " She looks as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, or anywhere else.

In March 1986, the Motion Picture and Television Fund filed to become conservator of Lanchester and her estate which was valued at $ 900, 000.

Her uncle, G. F. Bradby, was the author of The Lanchester Tradition ( 1919 ), while her aunt Barbara Bradby was the joint author of The Village Labourer ( 1911 ).

Subplots involve a " romance " between Patti's sister Ingrid and Gregory Benson ( Roddy McDowall ) and the meddling of nosey neighbor Mrs. MacDougall ( Elsa Lanchester ) and her disapproving husband ( William Demarest ).

* Aunt Henrietta ( portrayed by Elsa Lanchester ), an eccentric grand dame who arrives in town with her circus and a disturbing premonition that the Nanny is about to be carried off by a mustachioed stranger in " Aunt Henrietta's Premonition.

Vivian's nosy landlady ( Lanchester ) attempts to blackmail a boyfriend Vivian used to call from her boarding house, going so far as to visit the wealthy married man and steal his gun.