She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.

She began it deliberately, so that none of her words would be lost on him.

She jerked the coat back on and squeezed it around her again, but not soon enough.

She went on:

She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??

She set the dipper on the edge of the deck, leaving it for him to stretch after it while she looked on scornfully.

She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

She was nude to the waist and her tumbled abundance of black hair did not conceal the knife slashes on her back.

She remained squatting on her heels all the time we were there ; ;

She read everything else she could get her hands on, including an article ( she thinks it was in the Atlantic Monthly ) by Mark Twain on `` White Slavery ''.

She wrote in her journal, `` I have not heard the least profane language since I have been on board the vessel.

She kept the dolls on the Lincoln bed.

She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.

She opened the boxes with a tear in her eye and a sad smile on her face.

She had to clean the glass on the display cases in the butcher shop, help her brother scrub the cutting tables with wire brushes, mop the floors, put down new sawdust on the floors and help check the outgoing orders.

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

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 came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it.

She was still laughing when I grabbed her and started rolling her on the bed.

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 signed the letters quickly, stamped them, and placed them on the hall table for Raphael to mail in town.

She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.

She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

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

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

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 swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.

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 remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

She was devastated when he left her, and she remained his loving friend ever after, keeping his photograph by her bedside wherever she traveled, including beside her hospital deathbed.

She describes her violently anti-Semitic father, a law professor in Krakow ; her unwillingness to help him spread his ideas ; her arrest by the Nazis for smuggling food to her mother, who was on her deathbed ; and particularly, her brief stint as a stenographer-typist in the home of Rudolf Höss, the commander of Auschwitz, where she was interned.

She pursues Rhett from Melanie's deathbed to their home in the neighborhood, only to discover he has given up on receiving a return of affection from Scarlett and is preparing to leave her.

Similarly, the name of the underground civilisation in She, known as Kôr, derives from Norse mythological romance, where the " deathbed " of the goddess Hel is called Kör and means " disease " in Old Norse.

She does not tell him the truth about Elizabeth-Jane until her death a year or two later, when she writes a deathbed confession and seals it in an envelope to be opened only on Elizabeth-Jane's wedding day.

She had also sworn on Constantine's deathbed not to marry again, and had even imprisoned and exiled Romanos Diogenes, who was suspected of aspiring to the throne.

She also responded to the Lady Hope Story that her father had undergone a deathbed conversion by writing an article in The Christian in 1922 saying it " no foundation whatever ".

She relates how Alvin, on his deathbed, counseled Joseph to " be faithful in receiving instruction and in keeping every commandment " ( chap.

She also carries within her a yearning, a majestic quasi-religious sensibility which finds its apotheosis in the deification, as she dies, of her pet parrot who floats above her deathbed masquerading as the Holy Ghost, the love she shows to the parrot being symbolic of her altruism.

She wrote the entire dramatic poem " Oderzhyma " (" The Possessed ") in one night at his deathbed.

She was said to have been at her father's deathbed in Seville in 1252.

She was painted at least three times by Van Dyck in the 1630s: a family portrait, an allegorical portrait as Prudence, and a deathbed portrait.

She moves in briefly with the Wakefields after her sister Tricia's death, because Steven promised Tricia on her deathbed to take care of Betsy.

She never married, though she had an unsatisfactory relationship with a man named Harry Pearson, who proposed to her on her deathbed.

She internalized every emotion of the role with her usual intensity and conviction, from desperate gaiety to startled joy at her first stirrings of love for Alfredo, right on through to her deathbed scene, which tugged mightily at the heartstrings of even the most jaded opera-goers Every dramatic gesture seemed careful thought out, yet nothing appeared mannered or merely gratuitous.

She is called to her father's deathbed, and he admits to her that her child survived the accident and is alive somewhere in New York.

She tried to explain on her deathbed that she was the one who broke his relationship with Amor but died before explaining.

She made a deathbed conversion to Christianity through the Anglican Church.