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She and measured
She measured the distance from where they stood to the men and the gun, measured the distance from the men to the back room.
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 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 and thread
An intrinsic definition of the Gaussian curvature at a point P is the following: imagine an ant which is tied to P with a short thread of length r. She runs around P while the thread is completely stretched and measures the length C ( r ) of one complete trip around P. If the surface were flat, she would find C ( r ) = 2πr.
She is scatterbrained and easily distracted ; she often forgets the thread of her conversations, and comes out with offbeat and seemingly inconsequential observations.
She taught the Inca women the art of spinning thread.
She was also the first to use cloth incorporating rubber ( elastic ) thread.
However, the review took issue with the characterisation of She and the manner of her demise: " To the present writer there is a sense of the ludicrous in the end of She that spoiled, instead of concluding with imaginative fitness, the thread of the impossible worked into the substance of this vivid and brilliantly told story ".
She showed the upright court official Guo Han in his garden that a goddess's robe is seamless, for it is woven without the use of needle and thread, entirely on the loom.
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 would later comment, " It all got sort of mishmashed in my brain except for one thread: a helluva lot of people over the centuries seemed to want to harm the Jewish people.
She wears fine purple robes embroidered with gold thread, covered in a black cloak embroidered with a silver star.
She does not interact much with the other passengers initially, and the thread connecting the subplots in the story is provided by the ship's mate, Ríolobo, who also is the focus for the elements of magical realism.
She debuted in 1967 by Kok Publishers in Kampen with the volume Gouddraad uit vlas (" Gold thread from flax ").
She is also seen saying " There goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality ", when Homer runs past her, naked and screaming, in " Treehouse of Horror III ", and hiding in a closet with Smithers on a parade float during a gay pride parade in " Jaws Wired Shut " ( Albeit as part of a float on being in the closet where only their arms were visible and voices heard ).
She moved herself by hopping from place to place on the bottom of her torso, and was able to manipulate objects with her mouth enough to comb her own hair, dress herself, thread a needle, and sew.
She is shown with a distaff in her right hand and spinning thread with her left hand.
She used dyed-to-match silk thread and employed ten assistants to reinforce the relic.
She is attributed with inventing the silk reel, which joins fine filaments into a thread strong enough for weaving.
She revisits the relationship between function and form and proposes that – rather than being read simply as the outcome of epochal movements – the history of form contains a continuous thread in which historical ideas have been evolved and transformed to produce novel forms.
She, Decima and Morta together controlled the metaphorical thread of life.

She and life
She finds married life stifling and every prolonged sex relationship unbearably monotonous.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She enjoyed great parties when she would sit up talking and dancing and drinking all night, but it always seemed to her that being alone, especially alone in her house, was the realest part of life.
She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.
She dressed and the accustomed routine restored to her a sense of normal everyday life.
She didn't want to be the only one with a stove in her room, especially as her life span was nearly run out anyway, and she insisted that Hope have the heater.
She showed no interest at all in the life he had led back home, and it hurt him a little.
She was sorry, and angry at herself, because never in their life together had she done that.
She spent her whole life caring for the poor and assisting the most disadvantaged Romans.
She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.
She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.
She established a Nursing Trust for local villages, and served on various committees and councils responsible for footpaths and other country life issues.
She resumed life with her family, and they supported her fully, acknowledging her chosen path and demanding of her little in the way of household responsibilities, " I was never once asked to do an errand in town, some bit of shopping … so well did they understand.
She managed to find new subjects for portraiture, working in the mornings and enjoying a leisurely life the rest of the time.
She had a strong religious upbringing and developed a faith that would play a major role in later life.
She was the sister of the socialist activist Max Eastman, with whom she was quite close throughout her life.
She spent most of her childhood and all of her adult life based in Paris and then the abbey at Poissy, and wrote entirely in her adoptive tongue of Middle French.
She hopes to expose her work in a gallery one day, as she documented the last decade of her life with a Pentax camera.
She was frank about her life, discussing her financial problems and past run-ins with the law.
She enjoyed a happy marriage and in later life, devoted time to Alde House and gardening, travelling with younger members of the extended family.
She wrote that it was because of the letters he wrote complaining about his life, but an addendum to Eric & Us by Venables reveals that he may have lost sympathy through an incident which was at best a clumsy seduction.
She gives him some of her life energy as the Cosmos sing, and Battra revives.
** Matilda in The Castle of Otranto – She is determined to give up Theodore, the love of her life, for her cousin ’ s sake.
She then explained everything to him including that she had given her life to Christ.
She is seriously ill for the first time in her life, having lost her child and broken her ribs.

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