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She and held
She held Jonathan's letter, his words burning like a brand, and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed.
She held out her hand to show that she had money.
She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.
She convinced him that he ought to be a member of some of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms and in the end he complied with her wishes, although it was only rarely that he added anything to the random conversations.
She held high moral principles and, despite her shyness in company, was prepared to argue for her beliefs.
She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her.
She was held against her will and repeatedly raped.
She was transferred from Mauthausen to the notorious women's concentration camp at Ravensbruck, located 50 miles from Berlin, where unbeknownst to Gemma at the time, her daughter Yolanda ( whose husband also died in the camps ) and baby grandson were also held for a year in a separate barrack.
She was the daughter of citrus fruit magnate John A. Snively, who held extensive properties both in Winter Haven and in Waycross ; Parsons ' father was a famous World War II flying ace, decorated with the Air Medal, who was present at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
She held her first Council in the Great Hall ( The Old Palace ) of Hatfield.
She decided that an ecumenical council needed to be held to address the issue of iconoclasm and directed this request to Pope Hadrian I ( 772 – 795 ) in Rome.
She held various positions in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, notably president in 1975 and chair of the executive committee of the board of directors in 1976.
She was consequently named Assistant Professor of Egyptology at the University College of London in 1924, a post she held until her retirement in 1935.
" She firmly held on to this conviction until her death.
She appointed Gardiner to the council and made him both Bishop of Winchester and Lord Chancellor, offices he held until his death in November 1555.
She is also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual animal adopt-a-thon held in New York City.
She held a low estimation of her writing abilities.
" She further held that to be is to be something, that " existence is identity.
She held that perception, being physiologically determined, is incapable of error.
" She held that the former is good, and the latter evil, and that there is a fundamental difference between them.
" She opposed involuntary military conscription, but also thought those who avoided being drafted should be held criminally liable.
She held this position until she retired in 1988.
She is charitable enough to pity Edward for being held to a loveless engagement by his gentlemanly honour.
She was elected to the Helsinki City Council, a position she held continuously for five terms from 1977 to 1996.

She and herself
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Steinhager '' She whispered Steinhager to herself, several times, memorizing it.
She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.
She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.
She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.
She was occupying herself in an attempt to write an article about the variety of houses that they had rented abroad.
She seemed to speak to herself.
She lost not a second, picking herself up and continuing her pilgrimage to Laura.
She disciplined herself daily to do what must be done.
She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the empty nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby's death.
She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.
She described herself and her circumstances unhesitatingly.
She walked back to the house and entered, feeling herself returning, sensing some kind of opportunity in the empty building.
She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.
She had done all the things she had promised herself she would do, but she had not thought of this.
She described herself as having the same kind of `` irresponsible '' feeling as she had once experienced under hypnosis.
She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.
She gave herself a title, Lady Diana Harrington.
She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.
She has to have at least one car herself.
She gave herself fancy airs!!
She found herself wishing an old wish, that she had told Doaty she was running away, that she had left something more behind her than the loving, sorry note and her best garnet pin.
She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.
She told herself rebelliously, and with pride, I am an American!!

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