Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;

Nora admits that she did forge the signature, so as to spare her dying father further worry about her ( she was pregnant, poor, and had a seriously ill husband ).

Elizabeth's supporters in the government, including Lord Paget, convinced Mary to spare her sister in the absence of hard evidence against her.

She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time.

The film stars May McAvoy as a young woman who is gradually going blind and tries to spare the two men in her life from the burden of her illness.

She was often given to harsh language, and she did not spare her husband, even when strangers were present.

Elizabeth took all blame for the rebellion and begged the attackers to spare her daughter's life.

Heidi again rushes to Bletch for emotional affirmation, but he is unable to spare her the sight of Samantha performing oral sex on him.

Despite the promise to spare his family, Bukharin's wife, Anna Larina, was sent to a labor camp, but she survived to see her husband officially rehabilitated by the Soviet state under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1988.

He said that Republican operatives had wanted to reveal compromising photographs of his daughter, which would disrupt her wedding, and he wanted to spare her from embarrassment.

Regardless of the reasoning behind its introduction, Elizabeth transformed “ her court into the country ’ s leading musical center .” She would spare no expense in its regard, importing leading musical talents from Germany, France, and Italy.

Despite the many things which Marie Antoinette did in her spare time, her primary concern became the health of the Dauphin, which was beginning to fail.

Philippa won much popularity with the English people for her kindness and compassion, which were demonstrated in 1347 when she successfully persuaded King Edward to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais.

She is best remembered as the kind woman who, in 1347, persuaded her husband to spare the lives of the Burghers of Calais, whom he had planned to execute as an example to the townspeople following his successful siege of that city.

Instead of executing Mulan as the law requires, Li Shang decides to spare her life by leaving her on the mountain as the rest of the army departs for the Imperial City to report the news of the Huns ' demise.

Instead of executing Mulan as the law requires, Li Shang decides to spare her life, leaving her on the mountain as the rest of the army departs for the Imperial City to report the news of the Huns ' demise.

She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

Birds chirped and chattered in the trees and the sun, all dewy-eyed and soft, caressed her shoulders warmly from time to time.

If, as she walked, her steps fumbled from time to time, she chose to ignore that omen.

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

Let Senora Brannon live in her father's house for a time.

Give her time to miss you.

I was aware of a humid look in her eyes that told me the time was opportune.

And all the time, she had the heat of hatred in her, like charcoal that is burning on its under side, but not visibly.

He had left her inviolate, thinking familiarity would gentle her in time.

And for the hundredth time that week, he was startled at her beauty.

when he went home at night, he took her with him in his mind, and she did the things the anonymous Woman used to do, and he did the thing afterwards each time as he used to do.

She remained squatting on her heels all the time we were there ; ;

In time she presents her aristocratic husband with a coal-black child.

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.

Another source of intellectual stimulus was opened to her at that time by the founding of Johns Hopkins University within walking distance of home.

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.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

He treats her like she was dirt.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He side-stepped her blow and she fell, stumbling against the gelding.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

As she drove, she thought about her plan.

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.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.