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 had helped him change his mind.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

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 to escape.

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

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 arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens.

She had retreated to this world.

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 hated the whole idea before they started.

She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.

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 might have been someone he had once loved.

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 jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

She was offered the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but declined.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

) She was offered the chance to compose the score for James Cameron's 1997 feature film Titanic, but she declined.

She proposed an alliance, something which she had refused to do when offered one by Feodor's father, but was turned down.

She offered very limited aid to foreign Protestants and failed to provide her commanders with the funds to make a difference abroad.

She then offered him the remaining books, but at the same price.

She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).

She even goes on to state that Lady Nancy Astor ' even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England '.

She also offered her home as a shelter for an immigrant family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She was also offered the first and last libations of wine at feasts.

She was also offered a spot as a featured player on Saturday Night Live, but turned it down to do Friends.

She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for " low moral character " and offered the federal agency information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation.

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder, She Wrote, he offered Straczynski a job as co-producer.

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

She had little intention of staying there, and briefly returned to Canberra in May 1983, before being offered a job in Sydney.

She was offered the lead role of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party at Helen Reddy's home.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

She, alongside her contemporaries " offered viable creative, intellectual, and business paths for establishing and maintaining agency, lyrical potency, marketing and ownership.

She insisted on hiring her own cameraman, and offered to waive her salary if the film went over budget as a result.

She was offered films in Hollywood, but turned them down and continued to work in France and England.

" She offered the headmaster 50 roubles to let him attend, which he accepted.

She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and, for her efforts, was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.