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She had Welsh ancestry, and many of her short stories and books ( both fictional and non-fictional ) are set in Wales and its borderlands, and / or have Welsh protagonists.
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She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
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 had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.
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 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 was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.
She and Welsh
She is said to have been the daughter of a Welsh steel worker of Irish descent, William O ' Callaghan, who had been superintendent on the Indian State railways.
She appears to have spent three years in the Welsh Marches, making regular visits to her father's court, before returning permanently to the home counties around London in mid-1528.
She is the daughter of Dôn and the sister of Gwydion and Gilfaethwy ; the Welsh Triads give her father as Beli Mawr.
She is sometimes known by the epithet Echraide, (" horse rider "), suggesting links with horse deities and figures such as the Welsh Rhiannon and the Gaulish Epona.
She is also known as Morgan, probably a specific personification of morgens, the Welsh term for water sprites.
She has a second home in the Welsh mountains where, she claims, the history inspires her and provides material for her novels.
She was the oldest daughter of John Dandridge ( 1700 – 1756 ), a Virginia planter and English immigrant, and Frances Jones ( 1710 – 1785 ) of English and Welsh descent.
She is also known in Latin as Igerna, in Welsh as Eigyr, in French as Igerne, in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur as Ygrayne — often modernized as Igraine — and in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival as Arnive.
She is a Welsh-speaker: in the first volume of her autobiography ( Private Faces ) she notes that she spoke only Welsh for much of her childhood, learning English by listening to the radio.
She is also a leading light in Social, Welsh and Sexy ( SWS ), the London-based organisation for Welsh socialites.
In spoken Welsh, the word ddim ( not ) often occurs with a prefixed or mutated verb form that is negative in meaning: Dydy hi ddim yma ( word-for-word, " Not-is she not here ") expresses " She is not here " and Chaiff Aled ddim mynd ( word-for-word, " Not-will-get Aled not go ") expresses " Aled is not allowed to go ".
She may be the same lady who, according to Old Welsh pedigrees, married King Dunod, who is generally thought to have ruled in West Yorkshire.
She was born to Charles Crooke Siddall, who claimed that his family descended from nobility, and Eleanor Evans, a family of both English and Welsh descent.
She was re-elected as Welsh Labour's Assembly Member for Neath on 3 May 2007 for a third 4 year term in office, with a majority reduced from 4, 946 to 1, 944-despite the actual number of votes for Labour only reducing by 398 votes from the 2003 Assembly election.
She was the daughter of a country doctor from the Welsh border town of Knighton, and had was Arnold's second wife.
She points out however that " Jack the Giant Killer " is rendered directly from the chapbooks except the English hasty pudding in the incident of the belly-slashing Welsh giant becomes mush.
She made a guest appearance in the 2003 Song for Europe, during which she was charged with announcing the results of the Welsh televote, which handed top marks to the ill-fated Jemini.
She is the daughter of Myfanwy Edwards ( née Roberts ), a Welsh antiques dealer and costume and set designer, and Peter Watts, an English road manager and sound engineer who worked with Pink Floyd.
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