She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.

She eyed the chickens with, if she had known it, something of Glendora's dismal look and thought with a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin verbs.

She seemed to work to grow close to her son in the few days he spent at home, talking to him about some of the more pleasant moments of his childhood and then trying to talk to him about those things in which he alone was interested.

She spent her whole life caring for the poor and assisting the most disadvantaged Romans.

She spent two years in France, where she worked for Anne Willan, the founder of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne.

" She spent the next three years investigating the law of God according to the Bible, especially in the words and works of Jesus.

She returned to Haworth in January 1844 and used the time spent in Brussels as the inspiration for some experiences in The Professor and Villette.

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 was chronically ill as a child and spent much of her time reading literature of the fantastic.

She spent the hostilities of 939 at Lorsch Abbey

She then spent the next three years seeking help from psychiatrists on both the west and the east coasts.

She spent most of their married years in resorts and spas, with their only child, a son.

She stayed at her mother's home in Palmdale during the brief time she was out of prison and spent some time hiking with her husband.

She spent her last years in a close personal and professional collaboration with anthropologist Rhoda Metraux, with whom she lived from 1955 until her death in 1978. Letters between the two published in 2006 with the permission of Mead's daughter clearly express a romantic relationship.

She spent the first few years mostly in the hospital, but was eventually able to be nursed from home.

She appears to have spent three years in the Welsh Marches, making regular visits to her father's court, before returning permanently to the home counties around London in mid-1528.

She had not told him that it was stuffed, much to Victor's annoyance, as he had spent time constructing an expensive kennel for it.

She had spent her early years helping a variety of sick relatives, contracting tuberculosis in the process.

She spent time in Salzburg and Nuremberg, where she stayed with her aunt and grandmother and became fluent in German.

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 spent her childhood in Normandy and Corsica.

She spent a semester studying in France as part of her major, a move that mirrored her role as Reed in the television series Sisters.

She also spent exorbitant sums of money on the grandiose baroque projects of her favourite architect, Bartolomeo Rastrelli, particularly in Peterhof and Tsarskoye Selo.

She spent her early childhood in Fort Wayne, near the St. Mary's River.

She herself spent years in one of the tanks.

She rapidly became an important member of Emperor Jahangir's court and, together with her brother Asaf Khan, wielded considerable influence.

She raised to the throne of Courland one Ernst Johann von Biron, who gained her particular favour and had considerable influence over her policies.

She won considerable attention in La Ronde ( 1950 ), a film which was banned briefly in New York as immoral.

Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century's most celebrated Jewish thinkers, made a dramatic accusation against the Judenräte in her 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: She claimed that without the Judenrätes assistance in the registration of the Jews, their concentration in ghettos and, later, their active assistance in the Jews ' deportation to extermination camps, many fewer Jews would have perished because the Germans would have encountered considerable difficulties in drawing up lists of Jews.

She enjoyed considerable success during the early 1940s, and was RKO's hottest property during this period.

She had a remarkable memory and considerable influence on the emperor's administration, carried out official business on his behalf, and apparently made a lot of money from her position.

She came to live at Harefield Place in considerable splendour.

She was a native of Limavady and the widow of an Anglo-Irish army officer, John George Kittson ( d. 1779 ), whose home was in Co. Cork but had seen considerable service in North America.

She did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s, and closed her career playing, for the first time, opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August.

She seems surprisingly at home in this setting, calmly ignoring their sexist overtures and showing considerable skill at the game.

She then moved to Coppet, and there gathered round her a considerable number of friends and fellow-refugees, the beginning of the salon which at intervals during the next 25 years made the place so famous.

She was directed not to reside within 40 leagues of Paris, and after considerable delay she determined to go to Germany.

She has also developed the ability to curl her body into a ball-like shape and roll around at a considerable speed like her cluster-lizard " relatives " in season three, and can also make noises like them.

She only married him reluctantly, suspecting that in fact he had been involved in the murder of her late husband ; and indeed Maximus treated Valentinian III's assassins with considerable favour.

" She alleged Judson compelled her to transfer considerable property to him and promise to pay him $ 12, 000 under threats that he would do her " great bodily harm.

She inherited a considerable amount of money from her parents and decided to spend it on promotion of chamber music, a mission she continued to carry out until her death at the age of 89 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She has had considerable commercial success, particularly in the United States.

She is an adventurous character of considerable talents, and she often drags the dumbstruck Cavin ( of whom she is more than a little fond ) into story situations.

She is captured by Rand's forces in Altara, is sent to Caemlyn along with the other Damane, and has her collar eventually removed by Reanne Corly of the Kin when she shows considerable scorn for her former captors.

She later became Lady Conway, and at her country seat at Ragley in Warwickshire, More would spend " a considerable part of his time.

She seems to have continued to wield considerable influence over Palenque in the early decades of her son's reign.

She also exerted a considerable influence over Paley's political views.

She leaves a discography that is considerable both in quality and in quantity and will be mostly remembered for her Mozart and Richard Strauss operatic portrayals, her two commercial recordings of Strauss's Four Last Songs, and her countless recordings of lieder, especially those of Wolf.

In a review of the biography of Dame Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken ( see " See also "), Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian described her in the following terms: " She remains, by a considerable margin, the most corrupt British public figure in living memory, with the possible exception of Robert Maxwell ".

She also was involved with King Louis XV's best friend, the Maréchal de Richelieu, over whom she allegedly exercised considerable control.