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She bore no male heir to succeed to the Duchy, but she preserved it from ruin ; to her actions can be ascribed the survival of the Burgundian state, and the prevention of French dominance in Europe.
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She would disgorge what she swallowed, and suffered severe stomach pains, which she bore with patience as another penance.
She was the Mother of several notable offspring, including the Winds, Zephyrus, Boreas, and Notus, and the Morning Star, Eosphoros, all of whom she bore to the Titan Astraeus (" of the Stars "), and Memnon, her son by Tithonus.
She had two children before the marriage dissolved, and bore a third, Rosario, in 1814 when she was 26.
She witnessed inoculation being practiced by physicians in Istanbul, and was greatly impressed: she had lost a brother to smallpox and bore facial scars from the disease herself.
She would often bore the Meldrews by showing them her complete collection of holiday pictures at the most unwelcome times.
She reportedly accepted his proposal a day after learning from Peter Townsend that he intended to marry a young Belgian woman, Marie-Luce Jamagne, who was half his age and bore a striking resemblance to Margaret.
She often bore twin kids, and at the very time that Jove was brought to her to nurse, had borne a pair.
She bore her husband four daughters: Sophia ( by marriage Princess of Vladimir-Volynia ), Agnes ( later Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim ), Adelaide ( by marriage Countess of Vohburg and Margravine of the Northern March ), and an unnamed daughter ( later wife of a Polish lord ).
She bore Napoleon a son, styled the King of Rome at birth, later Duke of Reichstaedt, who briefly succeeded him as Napoleon II.
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She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.
She was a living doll and no mistake -- the blue-black bang, the wide cheekbones, olive-flushed, that betrayed the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage, and the mouth whose only fault, in the novelist's carping phrase, was that the lower lip was a trifle too voluptuous.
She was apparently the pioneer in her family because she had no close relatives in this country at that time.
She had swished away, she had been gone for a long time probably when Sarah suddenly realized that she ought to stop her, pour out the coffee, so no one would drink it.
She had caught him off guard, no preparation, nothing certain but that ahead lay some kind of disaster.
She set out to make sure that no Jewish child anyplace in the world had to live in a place such as this ''.
She no longer wanted anything about him to remind her of the circumstances of their meeting that first night in Parioli.
She felt the lash bite and heard her father say in crazed monosyllables words which had no meaning, like, `` unnnt!!
She appeared to have no children with her husband and her sepulchral inscription has been found in Italy.
She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.
She was never considered legitimate and, when the king was dying, no one took her as a serious contender for the crown.
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