She said that proved she wasn't to be trusted with a fire in her room, and she could be burned to a crisp without anybody knowing it.

She proved that rhetoric is a powerful tool that women could employ to settle differences and to assert themselves.

She acquired a love of rock music during the 1970s, having been introduced by a babysitter to the music of the Los Angeles punk rock band X, which proved a life-changing experience.

She gave her third husband a number of children and proved to be a respectable and accomplished Renaissance duchess, effectively rising above her previous reputation and surviving the fall of the Borgias following her father's death.

She produced a long account of the affair, but the paper ultimately proved unpublishable because of its containing sensitive operational and personnel information.

She proved that animals, plants, and fungi all originated from protists.

She recorded several albums with piano accompaniment, but a guitar proved the perfect melodic foil for her.

She also proved to be a success as a broodmare.

She and her costar William Powell proved to be a popular screen couple and appeared in 14 films together, one of the most prolific pairings in Hollywood history.

She apparently became convinced that some of the nuns of the convent wanted to kill her, a fear which was never proved.

She proved her versatility, playing a comedic role in Pédale douce for which she won the 1997 César Award for Best Actress.

She was introduced to the works of Anton Chekhov, a writer who proved to have greater influence upon her writing in the short term than Wilde, on whom she had been fixated.

She replaced Gul with another Lieutenant General Shamsur Rahman Kallu who proved to be more a capable officer in the Afghan war than Gul.

While in drama school she had to earn her own way to pay her fees because in here, ironically, she proved to be the one member of her year who didn't get a grant ( the man who took her grant meeting wrote down on a piece of paper, which she saw: " She has a lisp and isn't attractive ").

She gave a series of readings on the " Meaning of Happiness ," which proved exceedingly popular.

She proved versatile, starring in films as diverse as the baseball farce Angels in the Outfield in 1951 and the tense western The Naked Spur in 1953.

She proved her innocence in an ordeal of fire and left him for the monastic life.

She felt such war coverage proved the medium was " an ally of pacifism ".

She famously said at the time of her election, ' stop the world, Scotland wants to get on ', and her presence at Westminster proved to be a real focus for the SNP with a significant rise in membership being the result.

She claimed that the newly-discovered documents proved misconduct by the prosecution and manufacture of evidence by government agents, all of whom were biased against Hauptmann because he happened to be of German ethnicity.

She had such a strong affection for animals that she had first dreamt of becoming a veterinarian, but the acting heritage proved too strong.

She is loyal to the White Tower and has proved she is not Black Ajah by reswearing her oaths.

She even proved that she needs no protection, as she had surreptitiously trained herself in the use of weapons. It is not known whatever became of Calla's mother.

The ballad " She Makes My Day " also proved to be a hit in the UK, peaking at # 6.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

She quickly exploited the exalted position she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized males and even putting many of them to death.

She had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.

She held Jonathan's letter, his words burning like a brand, and knew suddenly that the bonds between them were severed.

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

She thought again of her children, those two who had died young, before the later science which might have saved them could attach even a label to their separate malignancies.

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 then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship.

She held herself that way and turned her head towards them and laughed and winked.

She also taught them to sing `` I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate ''.

She learns how to relax them to accept -- instead of contracting them to repel -- the entering object.

She agreed to take charge of five or six of the Negroes should Palfrey decide to send them north immediately.

She drew on all her resources of mind and heart to help them -- to make them at home in the world ; ;

She took refuge on a tongue of land extending into a gully, crouched at the base of a thorn tree, and waited for them to come up.

`` She don't know nothing about them cars.

She pushed wartorn and poverty-stricken nations into prosperity, but she failed to lead them into unity and world peace.

She pursed her lips, then clamped them together so tightly that I thought she was angry with me.

She would turn to them, then turn to him, then turn again.

She hesitated, as though hunting over words and ways of putting them.

She would not stop to read them in American Express, as many were doing, sitting on benches or leaning against the walls, but pushed her way out into the street.

She would see them, looking just as they had in the books, and this would make up a part of her delight.

She compared the results with tape recordings of modern singers and was not unpleased although her own tapes had a peculiar quality about them, not at all unharmonious, merely unique.