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She and put
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 had, with her own work-weary hands, put seeds in the ground, watched them sprout, bud, blossom, and get ready to bear.
She turned and put her arms around his neck.
She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).
She said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.
She must have looked temptingly pretty to the dean as he put the crown on her head.
She stood there, watching Holden come in, and she put the piece of toast in her mouth and bit off one corner with a huge chomp of her white teeth.
She put the violin away and took out some linen, needles and yarn to while away the long, idle days in Budapest.
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 must have put his clothes in the closet.
She put her bag on the bed to claim it as her own ; it was assumed this was pre-arranged.
In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.
She stirs up even the shiftless to toil ; for a man grows eager to work when he considers his neighbour, a rich man who hastens to plough and plant and put his house in good order ; and neighbour vies with his neighbour as he hurries after wealth.
She feared that the French planned to invade England and put Mary, Queen of Scots, who was considered by many to be the heir to the English crown, on the throne.
She combined these elements with a theological notion ultimately derived from Genesis: all things put on earth are for the use of humans.
She believed that her monastery should not allow novices who were from a different class than nobility because it put them in an inferior position.
She was captured by the Burgundians, transferred to the English in exchange for money, put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon for charges of " insubordination and heterodoxy ", and was burned at the stake for heresy when she was 19 years old.
" She went on to put forward the idea that this typically confirmed " some original, private experience, so that the most common experience of those who have named themselves pagan is something like ' I finally found a group that has the same religious perceptions I always had '.
She is caught in the middle of the Terrill-Hannassey feud, as she has been allowing Hannassey to use her water for his cattle, while Terrill has been trying to buy her land in order to put Hannassey out of business.
She also chose Tau Ceti for a final shortlist of just five stars suitable for searches by the ( indefinitely postponed ) Terrestrial Planet Finder telescope system, commenting that " these are places I'd want to live if God were to put our planet around another star.
My arms are like the twisted thornAnd yet there beauty lay ; The first of all the tribe lay thereAnd did such pleasure take ; She who had brought great Hector downAnd put all Troy to wreck.
She had asked him several times, she said, why he had chosen to credit his own teachings to another, and he had always answered that doctrines put into the mouth of the miracle-working Shimon bar Yochai would be a rich source of profit.
She announced in mid-2007 that her Paradise Valley home would be put up for sale, citing her aspirations to " downsize " and focus more on her charity work, and the fact that in the last year she had only " spent about two weeks there.

She and slipper
She cuts off part of her heel in order to get in her foot in the slipper, and again the prince is fooled.
She shows them a portrait of a young woman, named Danielle de Barbarac, and a glass slipper, and begins her tale.
She was in popular dramas like Glass slipper, Miss Kim's One Million Dollar Quest, Marrying a Millionaire, and Land She is known for her bubbly and happy smile.
She looks up and sees the Prince, who is holding her other glass slipper, which he declares will fit the foot of the princess he intends to marry.

She and by
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 was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.
She lived by the rules, never compromising, never blinded or diverted by circumstance.
She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.
She quickly exploited the exalted position she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized males and even putting many of them to death.
She designed and supervised the building of the Harbert, Michigan, house, most of which was constructed by one local carpenter who carried the heavy beams singly upon his shoulder.
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 describes, first, the imaginary reaction of a foreigner puzzled by this `` unseasonable exultation '' ; ;
She was Ellen Aldridge, a widow of good repute who was employed by Gorton's wife and lived with the family.
She had been picked up by the Russians, questioned in connection with some pamphlets, sentenced to life imprisonment for espionage.
She was intimidated by the stove.
She concluded by asking him to name another hour should this one be inconvenient.
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 concluded by asking for a brief interview -- `` to settle with you where '' -- and she threw in a tribute to his `` gentle manners '' and `` the wild originality of your countenance ''.
She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.
She hopes that all will support the contestants from our own community by attending our Pageants and the State Pageant June 17 ; ;
She is owned by Ralph H. Kroening, Milwaukee, Wis., who, according to the railbirds, can feel justly proud of her.
She explained nonreactivity of others by saying that they were `` not letting themselves relax ''.
She was succeeded by Clarence Goyette.
She retreated by leaving the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and there.
She did not go so far as to say, as was done on other occasions, that Abstraction as well as Impressionism were a Russian invention that had been discarded as unwanted by the people of the U.S.S.R.
She quickly moved into cafe society, possibly easing her conscience by talking constantly of her desire to be in show business.

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