She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

`` She won't change her mind '', Brannon said.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

She said incredulously.

She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.

She said, `` My name is Songau and these girls are Ponkob and Piwen.

She said, her voice rising.

She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.

She said with intense feeling: `` Come near, let me feel your arms.

She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!

She regretted what she described as the `` unwarrantable & unnecessary '' check to their friendship and said that she felt that they understood one another perfectly.

She had, she said, heard that the plant was closing.

She said.

She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.

She said, `` Do you think you'll miss school ''??

She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??

She never said a word about the fifty dollars.

She would have said triumph.

`` She didn't mention bringing Myra '', Mark said, maneuvering the car into the next lane.

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 said to the saleslady, `` I want a dress to put on around the house ''.

She said it was after she returned from her vomiting spell in the back yard that Mrs. Borden told her to wash the windows.

She told police about the prospective tenant she had heard quarreling with her father some weeks before the murders, but she said she thought he was from out of town because she heard him mention something about talking to his partner.

She did not pause to consider what she would do if her plan should fail ; ;

She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.

She placed her palms, fingers outspread, on the desk in an odd gesture as if to say, `` Now, what next ''??

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

She showed us what had happened to her.

She was the only kind of Negro Laura Andrus would want around: independent, unservile, probably charging double what ordinary maids did for housework -- and doubly efficient.

She disciplined herself daily to do what must be done.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

She stammered, `` You heard what he said about police??

She didn't mind working hard, not as if she figured to do anything wrong to live easy and soft -- all she wanted was a chance, where she wasn't marked as what she was.

She ate what she could and went out along the covered passageway, with the rain dripping from the vines.

She doled out what Glendora vaguely guessed were the right amounts of dried peas, eggs, cornmeal, a little salt.

She could always predict what Stanley was going to do, ever since she first met him.

She didn't tell anyone, even her mother, what was wrong.

She calmly repeated what Moore had told me.

She felt mindless, walking, and almost easy until the church spire told her she was near the cemetery, and she caught herself wondering what she would say to Doaty.

She managed a missionary drive for the church once and got the books so confused that old Mr. Webber, the eldest elder, who'd never donated more than five dollars to anything, had to cough up five hundred dollars to avoid a scandal in what Edythe called `` the bosoms of the church ''.

She knew what people were thinking ; ;

She discovered the quality and depth of her feelings in the wordless transitions between what she could say and what she could not say.

She contended that this understanding was what enabled the biblical Jesus to heal and accords with the Scripture: " We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us ; he that is not of God heareth not us.