She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

She finds married life stifling and every prolonged sex relationship unbearably monotonous.

She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.

She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.

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.

She dressed and the accustomed routine restored to her a sense of normal everyday life.

She didn't want to be the only one with a stove in her room, especially as her life span was nearly run out anyway, and she insisted that Hope have the heater.

She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.

She was sorry, and angry at herself, because never in their life together had she done that.

She spent her whole life caring for the poor and assisting the most disadvantaged Romans.

She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

She established a Nursing Trust for local villages, and served on various committees and councils responsible for footpaths and other country life issues.

She resumed life with her family, and they supported her fully, acknowledging her chosen path and demanding of her little in the way of household responsibilities, " I was never once asked to do an errand in town, some bit of shopping … so well did they understand.

She managed to find new subjects for portraiture, working in the mornings and enjoying a leisurely life the rest of the time.

She had a strong religious upbringing and developed a faith that would play a major role in later life.

She was the sister of the socialist activist Max Eastman, with whom she was quite close throughout her life.

She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life based in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French.

She hopes to expose her work in a gallery one day, as she documented the last decade of her life with a Pentax camera.

She was frank about her life, discussing her financial problems and past run-ins with the law.

She enjoyed a happy marriage and in later life, devoted time to Alde House and gardening, travelling with younger members of the extended family.

She wrote that it was because of the letters he wrote complaining about his life, but an addendum to Eric & Us by Venables reveals that he may have lost sympathy through an incident which was at best a clumsy seduction.

She gives him some of her life energy as the Cosmos sing, and Battra revives.

** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.

She then explained everything to him including that she had given her life to Christ.

She is seriously ill for the first time in her life, having lost her child and broken her ribs.

She studied it for a long time.

She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

She named 48 items, and said there were `` many more things which it would take too long to write ''.

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 threw back a cushion over one of the seats, unlocked a padlock on the chest beneath it, then presently straightened, holding a long knife and a wicked looking spear gun in her hand.

She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to while away the long, idle days in Budapest.

She had black eyes, long and intriguingly tilted, and the way she walked was melody.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

She claimed to feel " jubilant " when cutting off her long hair.

She carried on a long correspondence with Pope Gregory XI, also asking him to reform the clergy and the administration of the Papal States.

She does not understand what's going on around the cabin and is not alive long enough to figure it out.

She read avidly and took long walks amongst a natural environment that inspired her greatly.

She died on 2 January 1992 after a long battle with cancer.

She described the long necked creature as living in the rivers, and being about the size of a hippo, if not somewhat larger.

Barbara Walters said of her, " She has served every day for eight long years the word ' style.

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

She notes that not only are the results not very precise, but that other structures mentioned in the research are not in fact pyramids, e. g. a tomb alleged to be the tomb of Amphion and Zethus near Thebes, a structure at Stylidha ( Thessaly ) which is just a long wall, etc.

She claims that Gould — particularly in his popular essays — uses a variety of strategies from literature, political science, and personal anecdotes to substantiate the general pattern of punctuated equilibrium ( long periods of stasis interrupted by rapid, catastrophic change ).

She was not happy at Moulson's, but she did not have to stay there long.

She long resisted public speaking for fear she would not be sufficiently eloquent.

" She reached up and scratched her long fingernails down both my cheeks so deeply that I had marks for about a week ,” Cowles wrote.

She also had a long career in the city council of Helsinki, serving there from 1977 to 1996.

She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see.