She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

" She does not, because of this, evade the duty imposed on her of proclaiming humbly but firmly the entire moral law, both natural and evangelical.

" She firmly held on to this conviction until her death.

She firmly dismissed rumours that had persisted for 30 years that she was a lesbian, that had started after she interviewed rock musician Joan Armatrading in 1978, saying that this was not true and had probably dissuaded men from approaching her.

She is placed firmly in the imperialist literature of nineteenth-century England, and inspired by Rider Haggard's experiences of South Africa and British colonialism.

However, the story of She is firmly ensconced in what fantasy theorists call ' primary world reality ', with the lost kingdom of Kôr, the realm ruled by the supernatural She, a fantastic " Tertiary World " at once directly part of and at the same time indirectly set apart from normative " primary " reality.

She is set firmly in the imperialist literature of the late-Victorian period.

She firmly supported President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and campaigned for Bush in the contiguous United States.

She firmly maintained that stance until her death in 1997, age 91.

She awarded him all of Ye Meru Qemas in the hopes of binding him firmly to her son and herself.

She was an easy target as she held no political value: Edessa was firmly in enemy hands.

She set about writing several books, including Isis Unveiled ( 1877 ) in which she introduced the terms Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path, firmly stating that she herself followed the RHP, and that followers of the LHP were practitioners of Black Magic who were a threat to society.

She was a stern, rather joyless person, and a Campbellite who who firmly believed in overcooked, bland food.

She asserts that this historical approach to myth firmly belongs in the nineteenth century.

In her memoirs, Katharine Graham, then the newspaper's publisher, wrote of him: “ My life would have been a lot simpler had Nicholas von Hoffman not appeared in the paper .” She added, however, that " I firmly believed that he belonged at the Post.

She has a striking sense of perspective, and great eye for detail, planting the objects firmly in three dimensional space.

She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kern's musical Show Boat in 1927 as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a part-talkie made in 1929 ( prologue only ) and a full-sound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role.

She repeatedly places her chin firmly on Alice's shoulder, which Alice finds disturbing as well as uncomfortable, as the Duchess has a very sharp, pointy chin.

She grabs the candle back and firmly orders him to leave and respect her privacy, since she needs time to grieve, not fret over the ghosts and superstitions over candles.

She firmly believes in finding retired racehorses new careers and loving homes once their racing careers have ended.

" She further wrote that whereas the original radical feminism " challenge the polarization of the sexes ", cultural feminism simply embraces the " traditional feminine virtues ".

She is essentially assimilative and benign, and embraces several otherwise quite disparate functions, She can give military victory, sexual success, good fortune and prosperity.

She determined that she would yield to his embraces only as his acknowledged queen.

She is the only character throughout the play who embraces and appreciates both the real and idealized life and manages to make the two ideas coexist.

She keeps up with and even embraces the social expectations of the wife of a patrician politician but she is still able to express herself and find distinction in the parties she throws.

She embraces a firearm with her right hand ; and a dog with her left.

Misinterpreting her, he embraces, but She resists him, insisting that she did not love him in that way, yet the priest continues to ravish her until her mother enters.

She embraces Konstantin, and leaves.

She embraces her life, the past that has made her who she is, and even her mother.

She embraces him and kisses him, and he immediately falls in love with her.

She tearfully embraces him, allowing him to catch her and continues to live on Earth with him.

She submits to her husband's embraces, but principally to gratify him ; and, were it not for the desire of maternity, would far rather be relieved from his attentions.

She also lent her voice to the end credits of The Cat's Meow, singing Henry Creamer and Turner Layton's jazz standard " After You've Gone.

" She was offered a standard contract by MGM, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with her sister Bappie accompanying her.

She also believed that proponents of the standard theory " wallow in their zoological, capitalistic, competitive, cost-benefit interpretation of Darwin – having mistaken him ... Neo-Darwinism, which insists on slow accrual of mutations by gene-level natural selection, is in a complete funk.

She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes ( Leipzig, 1928 – 1938 ).

She remained titled Sarah, Duchess of York in keeping with the standard form of address for former wives of peers.

She drives Sonya into prostitution in a fit of rage, but later regrets it, and beats her children mercilessly, but works ferociously to improve their standard of living.

She is best known for her 1960 hit " I'm Sorry ", and 1958's " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree ", a US holiday standard for more than 50 years.

* Many verbs are given indirect objects they do not have in standard English ; notably, " put ": " She puts him breakfast on the couch!

She flips the second switch and the player piano pounds out a honky-tonk version of Brad's standard love song.

She also felt that the television writing was often below standard and dismissed many of the Bewitched scripts as " hack " in a 1965 interview.

She charges her younger sister Felicity to uphold the standard that she and her classmates set.

She may in fact be raped from her perspective, but not from the perspective of D, but the negligence standard allows for little mercy -- and rightly so.

She also performed the major standard flute repertoire of the 20th century, including sonatas by Hindemith, Prokofiev and Poulenc, and the flute concerti by Ibert and Nielsen.

John Chapman of the Daily News declared that the production had " good lyrics and tunes by Irving Berlin ... the razzle-dazzle atmosphere of a big-time show " but pronounced Merman the best part of the show, stating " She is a better comedienne than she ever was before ", stating that " Annie is a good, standard, lavish, big musical and I'm sure it will be a huge success -- but it isn't the greatest show in the world ".

She recorded J. Russel Robinson and Con Conrad's 1920 jazz standard " Singin ' the Blues " by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band composed by and released it as Victor 18703.

She cites this as standard legal filler text that does not necessarily prove the person was present.

She takes a nursing job at the kids ' school so that she can work standard hours and spend more time with the kids.

She was offered the standard seven-year contract at Columbia Pictures, which she quickly refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics.

She argues that all humans are moral beings, and should be judged as such, regardless of their sex: “ Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being … and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

She wields both a standard bullwhip and the cat o ' nine tails with expert proficiency.

She was also known for putting together interesting variations on standard operas.

She built up her résumé in summer stock and regional plays, usually cast in standard ingénue roles, although her theatre roles would grow larger once she came to New York City, where she appeared in The Rimers of Eldritch, Cactus Flower, King Lear, Camino Real, and The Time of Your Life, among others.

She debuted in 1993, winning the newcomer artists ' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with the song " La solitudine ", which became an Italian standard and an international hit, reaching the top spot on the Italian Musica e Dischi singles chart, as well as on the Dutch Top 40 and on the Flemish VRT Top 30.

She then claimed that her sacking from the Pentagon at the end of the Clinton administration was vindictive, though it was shown to be a standard routine.

She further accused the administration of a " double standard " in that it had never applied its rhetoric on the necessity of liberalization to the affairs of Communist governments.