She knelt out of reverence for having read the Meditations of St. Augustine.

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 made better pictures than any book he'd read, but he didn't say so.

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 bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

She then read Latin at Birmingham University and later attended Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics ( PPE ).

She sent her students a definition of the Trinity ( circa 1898 ), which read in part: " Jesus in the flesh was the prophet or wayshower to Life, Truth, and Love, and out of the flesh Jesus was the Christ, the spiritual idea, or image and likeness of God.

She learned to speak, read and write in Spanish and Latin, and spoke French and Greek.

She read avidly and took long walks amongst a natural environment that inspired her greatly.

She read books, wrote letters, and played the lute ( see Bartolomeo Tromboncino ).

She studied at St Paul's Girls ' School, read history at Somerville College, Oxford, England, and became the first female president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society.

She later explained: " When I read it, I was 15 and I don't think I was mature enough to understand the script's material.

She raised money for public libraries through her establishment of the Texas Book Festival, and established the First Lady's Family Literacy Initiative, which encouraged families to read together.

She also read the plays of William Shakespeare, and novels by Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.

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

She signed on to Scream 2 without having read the script, on the basis of the success of the first film.

She read widely, did fine needle work and was an amateur musician.

She read a free verse poem calling for peace in the world.

She was able to attend a Congregationalist Sunday school where she learned to read and write.

She could read and write a little, but was much better at needlework and household management, which were considered much more necessary for women.

She could read and write, but only in German.

She read excerpts from Ulalume by Edgar Allan Poe.

She read the Odyssey at the age of nine and enjoyed the works of John Bunyan, especially his 1678 story The Pilgrim's Progress.

She has been known under the aliases Marvel Girl, Phoenix, and Dark Phoenix and is best known as one of the founding members of the X-Men, for her relationship with Cyclops, and for her central role and transformation in the classic X-Men storyline " The Dark Phoenix Saga ".

She has faced death numerous times in the history of the series, the first being when, in her guise as Marvel Girl, she died and was " reborn " as Phoenix, which in time led to her second-though not last-death in the classic " Dark Phoenix Saga ".

Stuart Dischell published a well-received pantoum, " She Put on Her Lipstick in the Dark ," in the December, 2007 issue of The Atlantic.

She eventually learns of and executes a long-forgotten ritual at Shayol Ghul to ensure the Dark Lord remains sealed within the prison.

She starred in the films Dark Corners, in which she appeared in the lead role, and Train.

She broke free of Mastermind's control, but had been transformed into Dark Phoenix.

She battled the X-Men and fled to the stars, devoured the energies of the D ' Bari star system to satisfy her " hunger " as Dark Phoenix, annihilating the five billion inhabitants of its fourth planet, and destroyed a nearby Shi ' Ar observatory vessel which opened fire on her before returning to Earth.

She has the ability to resurrect herself as the Dark Phoenix.

She even kills a Dark Jedi named Kueller with a blaster rifle, right before he is about to deal a fatal blow to Luke.

She was emotional during the making of her next film, Dark Victory ( 1939 ), and considered abandoning it until the producer Hal B. Wallis convinced her to channel her despair into her acting.

She accepted roles in the television miniseries The Dark Secret of Harvest Home ( 1978 ) and the theatrical film Death on the Nile ( 1978 ), an Agatha Christie murder mystery.

She was also featured in an episode of Batman: The Animated Series entitled Legends of the Dark Knight.

She will appear in Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine by Dark Horse Comics.

She produced her best-seller, The Flight of the Heron, in 1925, and followed it up with two successful sequels, The Gleam in the North and The Dark Mile.

She also finds her counterpart, Dark Samus or Metroid Prime's essence inside Samus's Phazon Suit.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Dark Angel ( 1935 ).

She has since been involved in many other attacks by the Dark Judges, who even managed to use her as an instrument of their plans for a while.

She was in many important films, including Dark Passage and Since You Went Away, either playing key small or large supporting parts.

She first collaborated on a screenplay for The Dark Angel, an earlier play and silent film.

* Witch of the Dark Forest: She is an evil hag, who lives in a strange tower made from a gnarled tree in the Dark Forest near Serenia.

She subsequently took one of the lead roles in four-handed comedy Any Wednesday, appeared in productions of There's A Girl in My Soup, The Bandwagon, played the nurse in Loot, appeared as the daughter Julie in A Delicate Balance, and took the lead role in a production of Wait Until Dark, a role for which she was critically acclaimed.

She will complete the long awaited Stealth Tribes graphic novel with Warren Ellis for Vertigo in 2012, and is working with Neil Gaiman on a new graphic novel for Dark Horse for 2013.