[permalink] [id link]
She overplayed her hand ''.
from
Brown Corpus
Some Related Sentences
She and her
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
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 and hand
She raised a protesting hand with a startled air.
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 held out her hand to show that she had money.
Here '' -- She thrust a bundle of keys strung on a thick red cord into Sarah's hand.
She had a cup of something steaming, coffee perhaps, in one hand, a fresh piece of toast in the other.
She threw back a cushion over one of the seats, unlocked a padlock on the chest beneath it, then presently straightened, holding a long knife and a wicked looking spear gun in her hand.
She put a strong hand under the old man's arm and lifted him up, patiently, with the gentle cruelty and necessary tyranny that the young show toward the very old.
She remembered, suddenly, a night of savage moonlight and scudding clouds when she and Adelia, having dared each other, had stolen out of their great safe house and come here, hand in hand, hoping and fearing ghosts.
She was holding on to his rock with one hand.
She must have seen the ring on my left hand.
She also has a remarkable ability to latch onto a casual comment and connect it to the case at hand.
She is asked to help develop technology that could gain the upper hand in the impending war.
She tried to poison him, but at the last second, Aegeus recognized his sword and knocked the poisoned cup out of Theseus ' hand.
She has been repaying the debt from her housekeeping budget, and also from some work she got copying papers by hand, which she did secretly in her room, and took pride in her ability to earn money " as if she were a man.
She never did, although she received many offers for her hand ; the reasons for this are not clear.
She turned down Philip II's own hand in 1559, and negotiated for several years to marry his cousin Archduke Charles of Austria.
She shows him her webbed hand, yet another reference to the motif of the hand throughout the book.
She was the mother of three princes, Valerian II ( who died in 258 ), Saloninus ( who, after becoming co-emperor, died in 260 by the hand of his general Postumus ), and Marinianus ( killed in 268, shortly after his father was assassinated ).
She does so by ascending on a flying tire until she reaches a structure resembling clouds, into which she disappears, although in the film version of Cats she ascends with Old Deuteronomy and then she walks up a giant metal hand to the Heaviside layer.
She was also on hand as President Obama signed the Ronald Reagan Centennial Commission Act and lunched privately with Michelle Obama.
She travels to the past and attempts to hand the past Voyager over to the Vidiians while she takes her past self home, but this attempt is thwarted.
She and .
She didn't move or say anything.
She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.
She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.
`` She doesn't want you now.
She breathed.
She too began to weep.
She crouched aside as bullets beat at the portal, chewing into the planks.
She had helped him change his mind.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
She studied it for a long time.
She was quick.
She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.
0.556 seconds.