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She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.
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She and glanced
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
She glanced at her companion fondly.
She succeeded in cutting a quarter of his mask and glanced at his revealed eye before he escaped.
She and at
She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She sat down at the table, shaking her head.
She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.
She crouched aside as bullets beat at the portal, chewing into the planks.
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
She looked at him, lips compressed.
She sat quietly, staring at me from the wide eyes.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.
She would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.
She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!
She snapped at him.
She looked down at her hands, too.
She grabbed at Feathertop's sleeve and shrieked, `` Help him!!
She passed the entrance examinations to the University of Illinois, but during the year at Urbana felt more important events transpired at the University of Chicago.
She left the next day for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois.
She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.
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 and man
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.
She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;
She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.
She was wise enough to realize a man could be good company even if he did weigh too much and didn't own the mint.
She was taken up in worry for the reckless old man.
She replied, `` I know of one man that has not been friendly with him.
She was glad the fat man had left.
She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.
She smiled vaguely at Henrietta and spoke to the old man.
She felt, rather than saw, the approach of the good-looking young man.
She retreated before the naked shame in the old man and the fury beyond it and sank into the darkness of her lodge where Walitzee stirred, mumbling, sitting up in a half stupor to say:
She called him, " an intelligent, philosophic, modest man " and found his views on education " very attractive ". Locals in Cheshire were less supportive and became suspicious of his methods.
She has been repaying the debt from her housekeeping budget, and also from some work she got copying papers by hand, which she did secretly in her room, and took pride in her ability to earn money " as if she were a man.
She consoles Boethius by discussing the transitory nature of fame and wealth (" no man can ever truly be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune "), and the ultimate superiority of things of the mind, which she calls the " one true good ".
She turned it to Matthew 9: 2, which tells the story of Jesus healing a man who was sick with palsy, and after pondering the meaning of the passage, found herself suddenly well and able to get up.
She stirs up even the shiftless to toil ; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order ; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth.
::" She wants to marry a Swede " ( she wants the man she marries to be Swedish — no specific person in mind )
::" She wants to marry a Swede " ( the man she wants to marry is Swedish — a specific person )
She also asked for Tithonus to be made immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth, which resulted in him living forever as a helpless old man.
She then is depicted in the Talmud and Kabbalah as first wife to God's first creation of man, Adam.
She also stated that ‘ woman may be made from man, but no man can be made without a woman.
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