She won the 100 m in time of 11. 07, which was only in 1976 recognised as world record, which had been measured in tenths of seconds before ( the times in tenths were later corrected ).

" She worked along with her two sisters, Clotho, who spun the thread, and Lachesis, who measured the length.

Although on her return to Vienna in August 1862, a lady-in-waiting reported that “ she eats properly, sleeps well, and does not tight-lace anymore ”, her clothing from this time until her death still measured only 18 1 / 2 – 19 1 / 2 inches around the waist, which prompted the Prince of Hesse to describe her as “ almost inhumanly slender .” She developed a horror of fat women and transmitted this attitude to her youngest daughter, who was terrified when, as a little girl, she first met Queen Victoria.

She was thought to reside on Mauna Kea, which if measured from the seafloor is the world's tallest mountain.

She had a burthen of 640 tons, and measured 126 ' 8 " ( deck ) by 33 ' 8½ " ( breadth ) by 10 ' 2 " ( hold depth ).

However, another interviewer a week later paints a more measured picture of her criticisms: " She has some methodological concerns about the paper, including the use of local people — who might have opposed the occupation — as interviewers.

She measured " 300 tunnes ", cost £ 1, 500, and differed from her contemporaries primarily in her internal arrangements.

She had five decks, was 362 feet ( 110 m ) in length, and measured 6, 095 gross tons.

She measured the thread of life with her rod.

She is also said to choose a person's destiny after a thread was measured.

She argues that HPI incorporates three dimensions of poverty: life span measured by the proportion of the population expected to die before age 40, lack of knowledge measured by the proportion who are illiterate, and a decent standard of living measured by a composite index of access to health services, access to safe water, and malnutrition among children less than 5, that could specifically account for gender disparities.

She measured 1, 856 gross tons and could carry 60 passengers.

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 indicated a spot a little distance away.

She observed from a distance with her father and sister while her brother earned his Number One Dime.

She was able to withstand explosions of up to 220 pounds of guncotton in a distance of 75 yards from its body.

She and her father determined that the weather was too rough for the lifeboat to put out from Seahouses ( then North Sunderland ), so they took a rowing boat ( a 21 ft, 4-man Northumberland coble ) across to the survivors, taking a long route that kept to the lee side of the islands, a distance of nearly a mile.

She occupied herself with the building of churches and monasteries, preferring to distance herself from the power struggles of the court.

She had fallen in love with Art from a distance and sought him out in her currach, but when she met Conn and learned he was without a wife, agreed to marry him instead, on the condition that Art be banished from Tara for a year.

Those songs that went the distance on other charts, but not Billboard ( although all were top five hits on the Billboard chart ), are " Here We Are " and " Then Again " ( 1991 ); " Born Country " and " Take a Little Trip " ( 1992 ); " Once Upon a Lifetime " ( 1993 ); " Give Me One More Shot ," " She Ain't Your Ordinary Girl " and " In Pictures " ( 1995 ); " Sad Lookin ' Moon " ( 1997 ); and " How Do You Fall in Love " ( 1998 ).

She began using the name " Sam " professionally in 1988 when she left Myrrh Records and signed with Virgin Records in order to distance herself from her prior persona.

She completed the distance of 42. 195 km in 7 hours 18 minutes 55 seconds, without the ball ever touching the ground

She proved them wrong and fought toe-to-toe for the distance with the best fighters of the time.

She sang along with her siblings in the family pub, Leo's Tavern, in the village of Meenaleck, a short distance from the family home.

She fired 94 rounds from a distance of, all well aimed, but again with an excessive spread of her salvos.

She still holds more distance and speed records than any pilot living or dead, male or female.

She participated in many airshows and in December 1910, while competing in Turin for the Coupe Femina ( Femina Cup ), she set the first official women's flight records for duration and distance at 53 minutes and 42 kilometers.

She then let the chest float in the Nile while Miriam, her daughter, kept watch over it from a distance.

She also demonstrates an insight into the more disturbing aspects of childhood nature, as she enjoys listening to the sound of children playing while she is reading, but always positions herself at such a distance that she is unable to hear what the children are saying, lest she find it unsettling.

She returned to the Christian church to distance herself ideologically from the Imbangala, and took a Kongo priest Calisto Zelotes dos Reis Magros as her personal confessor.

She uses caltrops as an anti-personnel weapon and bolas to entangle opponents at a distance.

She later described the process: “ We needed a certain form of ending, after this huge distance walking towards each other.

She eventually watches from a distance as he slips away into celebrity.

She did her doctor's thesis on the influence of visual imagery on judgements of tactual distance and direction.

She apologizes for causing his illness and promises to keep her distance for good.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

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

She yanked away from him furiously.

She sat quietly, staring at me from the wide eyes.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

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

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 came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

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 didn't turn away from the window.

She was from Prague.

She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter.

She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.

She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.

She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.

She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty-legged escritoire, warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea spray.

She looked at the girl speculatively from eyes which had paled with the years ; ;

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.