But one afternoon Mrs. Mercer met her ; ;

Leaving her house one late afternoon, Mrs. Pastern stopped to admire the October light.

I lived to see an envelope of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my room in the afternoon to reread her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an answer.

Lizzie stated during the inquest that while her father and uncle were in the sitting room the afternoon before the murders, she had been disturbed by their voices and had closed her door, even though it was a very hot day.

In the afternoon Miss Hosaka and her mother invited me to go with them and young Mrs. Kodama to see the famous Spring dances of the Geisha dancers.

The wearying trek stretched into the afternoon -- from newspaper plant to insurance office to her house and back to the newspaper, where he found her at five o'clock.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

`` Since we're having coffee with them this afternoon '', he said, `` I think I'll ask the daughter if we can pay her to come in every day to clean for us ''.

Margarete saw it as her duty to invite the wives of the senior SS leaders over for afternoon coffee and tea on Wednesday afternoons.

Churchill – referring to the fact that a German naval victory would have made it impossible for Britain to supply her army in France, or even import food – described Jellicoe later as ' the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon '.

When James told Mary that she was to marry her cousin, " she wept all that afternoon and all the following day.

Numerous dolls arrived at the Hofburg as soon as Marie Antoinette turned 13, wearing miniature versions of the ball dresses, afternoon dresses, and gold-trimmed gowns proposed for her.

She follows an afternoon " spy route " during which she clandestinely observes her classmates, friends, and people who reside in her neighborhood.

On the afternoon of 16 July 1918, the last full day of her life, Tatiana sat with her mother and read from the Biblical Books of Amos and Obadiah, Alexandra noted in her diary.

Kent Haruf's to rhyme with " sheriff " novel The Tie That Binds ( 1984 ), is the fictitious story of 80 year-old Edith Goodnough of Holt County, Colorado, as told to an unnamed inquirer on a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1977 by her 50 year-old neighbour, a farmer called Sanders Roscoe.

Later that afternoon, on an errand with her sister Marie and school friend Jeanne ( Mary Anderson ) to collect firewood outside the town of Lourdes, Bernadette is left behind when her companions warn her not to wade through the cold river by the Massabielle caves for fear of taking ill. About to cross anyway, Bernadette is distracted by a strange breeze and a change in the light.

By coincidence, the news of her death broke on early Saturday afternoon ( Eastern Daylight Time ), while Steve Martin was rehearsing as the guest host for that night's season finale of Saturday Night Live.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.

I felt certain that the director, like the afternoon clerk, seldom moved beyond the counter, that the hall, to them, was a jungle, a dark and unwelcome place.

`` I think the maids tipple in the afternoon ''.

Daddy left the car for me, and I'm going to town this afternoon ''.

`` You will stay here thirty minutes after the others go home this afternoon and work your problems ''.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

Seeking an obscure, dark, relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine, he asked if the soft background music could be turned off.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

In the late afternoon Mando came back to fetch us, and we drove to the Acropolis.

Office workers frequently go out there to lunch and swim during the siesta period, which, during the summer, lasts from two until five in the afternoon, when shops and offices are again open for business.

Papa was still elated over his afternoon visit downtown.

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at four o'clock at the home.

I went to an afternoon service at the Aj.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

It was a dinner party, Lewis had been drinking during the afternoon, and long before the party really got under way, he was quite drunk, with the result that the party broke up even before dinner was over.

The apartment where we were talking that afternoon in March faced onto the street Garibaldi's men had charged up and along.

`` I can fix him something later in the afternoon when we get home ''.

The doctors had suggested Scotty remain most of every afternoon in bed until he was stronger.

Prevot had briefed the two new men that afternoon.

Now, Adam, in the gray light of afternoon, stared across at the hut opposite his tent, and thought of Simms Purdew lying in there in the gloom, snoring on his bunk, with the fumes of whisky choking the air.

It was the end of the afternoon when he took the huge key out of his pocket and inserted it into the keyhole.

He was told to ask for Rabbi Melzi at the synagogue on Saturday afternoon.