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 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 firmly embraces standard procedure in her work, which causes friction with Blackwood and his chaotic and eccentric work habits.

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 had maintained throughout the show's run that she was never diagnosed with either anorexia or bulimia, nor was she a user of illegal drugs.

She maintained a correspondence with the Austrian philosopher and pedagogue Wilhelm Jerusalem, who was one of the first to discover her literary talent.

She maintained contact with Spanish individualist anarchist circles.

She was a prolific letter-writer, and maintained a lifelong correspondence with her sister-in-law Elisabetta Gonzaga.

She arrived in New York City in November 1938, five days before Kristallnacht, or ' night of broken glass '; when news of the event reached the U. S., Riefenstahl maintained that Hitler was innocent.

She found herself engaged to five men, but maintained that she neither lied to or misled any of them.

She maintained an air of self-assured calm throughout all her public engagements in the years after the war, a period marked by civil unrest over social conditions, Irish independence and Indian nationalism.

She maintained a correspondence with Napoleon, informing him of increasing demands for peace in Paris and the provinces.

She also maintained a close friendship with stars like Anthony Quinn, Burt Lancaster, Sam Peckinpah, Frank Sinatra, Dolores del Río, John Wayne and many others.

She maintained her husband's innocence both before and after the prosecution.

She also maintained the boundaries between the realms of the living and the dead, regardless of their sex.

She maintained that " It was a good name, and it is a good name still, wherever Gardner found it ".

She also maintained a wide correspondence, including such famous writers as Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

She sternly maintained her royal pride and pretended to be sick and locked herself in her rooms when she was offended.

She also maintained detailed journals, over a period of twenty years, which remain unpublished.

She maintained a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and returned to music in 2004 with her Billboard charting songs " Just Wanna Dance " and " Free the World ".

She maintained that only an individual man can possess rights, and therefore the expression " individual rights " is a redundancy, while the expression " collective rights " is a contradiction in terms.

While the ratings for Murder, She Wrote had slipped slightly following its resurgence in 1991, it still maintained a loyal viewing audience.

She maintained that the struggle should be against capitalism, and not just for an independent Poland.

She was literate in French and Latin and maintained her own library.

She maintained these fictions throughout her professional life.

She moved to Hollywood with her mother and brother, and maintained a long-distance marriage with her husband in New York until he joined her in California in 1936.

She maintained a romantic relationship with photographer and filmmaker Gordon Parks for many years until his death in 2006.

She maintained a very close relationship with her sister Dorothy, as well as with Mary Pickford, for her entire life.

She had maintained her name out of principle rather than taking on her husband's.