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 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 thrust forward through the shadows and the trees that resisted her and tried to fling her back.

She had quarreled with Lucien, she had resisted his demands for money -- and if she died, by the provisions of her marriage contract, Lucien would inherit legally not only the immediate sum of gold under the floorboards in the office, but later, when the war was over, her father's entire estate.

She long resisted public speaking for fear she would not be sufficiently eloquent.

She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress as her sister Mary had.

She resisted telling Tracy for three months.

She then summoned Liu Ruyi to the capital Chang ' an in an attempt that was initially resisted by Liu Ruyi's chief of staff Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), whom she respected because he was one of the officials who insisted on Liu Ying being the rightful heir.

She opposed all-women shortlists, and resisted Militant.

She initially resisted being appointed to the position, preferring an economic portfolio, but, after accepting it, threw her weight into the job.

Felton criticized what she saw as the hypocrisy of Southern men who boasted of superior Southern " chivalry " but opposed women's rights, and she expressed her dislike of the fact that Southern states resisted women's suffrage longer than other regions of the U. S. She wrote in 1915 that women were denied fair political participation " except in the States which have been franchised by the good sense and common honesty of the men of those States — after due consideration, and with the chivalric instinct that differentiates the coarse brutal male from the gentlemen of our nation.

She then summoned Liu Ruyi to the capital — an attempt that was initially resisted by Ruyi's chief of staff Zhou Chang ( 周昌 ), whom she respected because he was one of the officials who insisted on Liu Ying being the rightful heir.

She resisted the Portuguese well into her sixties, personally leading troops into battle.

She formed governmental policy for working with labor unions and helped to alleviate strikes by way of the United States Conciliation Service, Perkins resisted having American women be drafted to serve the military in World War II so that they could enter the civilian workforce in greatly expanded numbers.

She led the conservative faction at court that resisted the modernists and progressives who wanted to develop Ethiopia along western lines and bring modernity to the country.

She resisted steadfastly for some time, until her two daughters were taken away from her, supposedly forever.

She resisted what she called ' the hierarchy of materials ', using plaster and mixing media to experiment with effects, a thread one can see running through the art of that time, especially on the West Coast.

She later resisted calls for a farewell tour.

She writes that Islam is a " sinister force " that must be resisted and contained.

She proved too strong, however, and resisted all Barnabas's attempts at brainwashing her into believing she was Josette DuPres.

She hands out a photograph of Power Pack, suggesting that from early childhood she needed to learn to keep her powers and other information about her siblings secret ( though in the original Power Pack series, it was Julie who most resisted hiding her powers, and in all other appearances as a member of Excelsior / Loners, she mentions her siblings frequently, and does not wear a mask to hide her identity, even though all the other members of the team do ).

She and her allies saw heterosociality as well as heterosexuality as aspects of hetero-power, strongly to be resisted.

She resisted calls by people to start playing music again for several years until she felt her daughters were old enough to understand what she was doing.

She was also a member of the Shirkat Gah Collective which catalyzed the Women ’ s Action Forum, the lobby group that so fiercely resisted the Zia regime.

She was tempted to use it to bring her daughter back to life, but she would not give in and she resisted its corruption until her last breath.

She fiercely resisted unionisation of bookshop staff, sacking most employees just before they had worked there six months, when they would gain limited job protection rights.