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She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
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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 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 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 and picked
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She escaped, crawled through the usual mine fields, under barbed wire, was shot at, swam a river, and we finally picked her up in Linz.
She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.
`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.
She picked her own Middle-Eastern friends from the flock of ardent Egyptians that buzzed around her.
She picked up the baby and nuzzled her fat warm little neck.
She picked up two more Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction ( 1987 ) and Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ).
She picked up the pace quickly, but was unable to shake off Gardner, who kept close until the finish line, and the two finished almost simultaneously.
She instilled in him a fondness for liberal thought ; it is probably during this period that Louis Philippe picked up his slightly Voltairean brand of Catholicism.
She picked Pelosi as her designated successor, guaranteeing her the support of the Burtons ' contacts.
She was later picked up on shopping networks around the world, including The Shopping Channel ( Canada ) and Ideal World Shopping ( U. K .).
She is known to be short-tempered and have a gruff exterior, although she is shown to be polite, sensitive, and friendly until she is picked on by the other students.
She had to rely on self-administered chemotherapy using supplies from a daring July cargo drop, then was picked up in an equally dangerous mid-October landing.
She picked up a number of dog-like habits and found it difficult to master language.
She had picked up a rosary in New Orleans during the course of her many moves around the country and started to recite the canticles she had learned at her childhood church in Chicago.
She travelled to Florida with senior FÁS executives, department officials, and her husband, Brian Geoghegan, and was receiving more than € 100-a-day subsistence money from the taxpayer when FÁS picked up her hairdressing bill in a Florida hotel.
She attempted to pass herself off as Saati until Toeni and Hitoshi picked the real one ; like all programs except Saati, she had zero modesty while Saati had modesty to spare.
She was picked by Steven Spielberg to sing " God Bless America " in A. I., although the scene was edited out of the final version of the film.
She picked up old friendships with Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein.
She picked up Emmy nominations for her role as Mona Robinson, a liberated grandmother in Who's the Boss, and as Lois Whelan in Everybody Loves Raymond.
She also filmed her own sitcom pilot for CBS, which was not picked up.
She could not have gotten away on her own, but the minstrel performer rushed on stage, picked up her chair, and carried her to safety.
She won gold medals in the shot put and discus throw ( despite having picked up a discus for the first time just a few weeks before the event ), and a bronze medal in the high jump.
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