She preferred that parents or teachers read aloud those texts ( such as Plutarch and the Old Testament ), making omissions only where necessary.

She preferred playing with boys than girls, which would carry the jealousy of her sisters.

She preferred her husband's mistresses to be ladies-in-waiting, as that way she believed she could keep a closer eye on them.

She hated school and preferred to play alone.

She preferred to perform in concert and recital only.

She was ordered to decide a fight between two kings, Hjalmgunnar and Agnar, and knew that Odin preferred the older king, Hjalmgunnar, yet she decided the battle for Agnar.

She preferred German princes who could establish homes in the UK.

She, her father Tokimasa, and her brother Yoshitoki created a council of regents for the eighteen-year-old Yoriie, but the headstrong shogun hated his mother's family and preferred his wife's family, the Hiki clan, and his father-in-law, Hiki Yoshikazu.

“” She preferred to cross the mountain by leaving a track that would show forever her contempt for Ulster … to make the Pass of the Cualinge Cattle .” Furthermore this scene also reveals much of Medb ’ s character as a somewhat stubborn, scornful woman.

She preferred simplicity and solitude to the pomp and ceremony of life at Court.

" She preferred to renounce all social amusements and pleasures so desired by young ladies of her age ... and has devoted her entire life to loving and caring for me ," the Tsar wrote.

" She writes that gynomorphic male and andromorphic female are preferred, adding, " I hope future work on these animals is carried out with more professionalism.

She preferred to say she wrote " romantic novels of suspense ".

She is also well known for her trademark rapid-fire dialogue, which is often full of obscure pop culture references ; and as well for her preferred master shot filming style.

She preferred to buy readymade garments rather than made-to-order outfits.

She opposed the execution of Louis XVI of France, partly out of opposition to capital punishment and partly because she preferred a relatively tame and living king to the possibility of a rebel regency in exile.

She opposed Pierce's decision to run for president, for she much preferred private life.

She preferred originals to their adaptations, and so her work ended up being critical of Shakespeare.

She naturally preferred the stage in any event.

" She also wished to live a life more in the style of a queen, while he preferred a more simple family life.

She continued to commute to Hollywood to make films but preferred the small town life.

She preferred to remain independent.

She worked with all of the grades, but she preferred to work with the fourth year students, and prepare them for the wider world.

She insisted on being sponsored by Robert Smillie and her old friend, James Maxton to be introduced to the commons, rather than by the leadership's preferred choice of sponsors.

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.