She stood quite still, trying to focus upon a direction in which to turn, a path to follow, a clue to guide her.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

She had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.

She came to the ballroom and stood on the two carpeted steps that led down to it.

She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.

She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road.

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 stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

She stood still over the leg of lamb, rubbing herbs into it, quite suddenly conscious of a nausea in her stomach and a feeling of wrath, a sensation of violence that started her shivering.

She measured the distance from where they stood to the men and the gun, measured the distance from the men to the back room.

She stood for a moment, rain dripping from the trees over her head, thinking of Maude.

She stood frowning and chewing her lip.

She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.

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 stood sipping and chewing and watching.

She stood indecisively for a moment, then walked down the hall ; ;

She stood, once more listening.

She stood gazing at him.

She bettered this mark in 1990 with a speed of-a record which stood until 1993.

She, like her sister, fled to Jordan and has stood up for her father's rights.

She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.

She later explained her belief that her hair – which " had never been combed and ... stood out like a bushel basket " – might have saved her life.

" The Earl stood by his wife, asking his colleagues to intercede for her ; there was no hope: " She Queen doth take every occasion by my marriage to withdraw any good from me ", Leicester wrote still after seven years of marriage.

She found that T. horridus and several other species belonged together, and T. prorsus and T. brevicornus stood alone, and since there were many more specimens in the first group, she suggested that this meant the two groups were two species.

She was Ernest Hemingway's mentor, and upon the birth of his son he asked her to be the godmother of his child.

She sang at the Carnegie Hall and was backed up by her artistic godmother, legendary Argentinian singer and actress, Libertad Lamarque.

She played Cinderella's fairy godmother in The Slipper and the Rose, which was chosen as the Royal Film Première for 1976.

She is also a godmother, alongside with Victoria Beckham, to Geri Halliwell's daughter Bluebell Madonna Halliwell.

She also held the titles of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony from birth, as well as a Princess of Teck by marriage, until 1917 when she was commanded to relinquish them by the Letters Patent of George V. She was godmother to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who was the granddaughter of her first cousin, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

She regularly attended at the services at the church of the Jansenist abbé de Sant-Amour, principal at the Paris University, and godmother of her daughter was the noblewoman de la Roche-Guyon.

She was named for her two grandmothers and for her godmother, Empress Eugénie, the Spanish-born widow of the former Emperor of the French Napoleon III, who lived in exile in the UK.

She was also the godmother of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, the reigning Sovereign Prince of Monaco, the godmother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, and the godmother of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, the Duchess of Alba ( the Duchess with the most noble titles in the world ).

* She was the godmother of Lovin ' Spoonful guitarist John Sebastian, whose mother had been a close friend.

She became our unofficial godmother and every night she'd sing us to sleep ," Shane told journalist Caroline Graham in 2002.

She was a godmother ( by proxy ) at the christening of her niece, Princess Victoria of Kent ( the future Queen Victoria ), in 1819.

She is godmother to Frasier co-star Jane Leeves's daughter Isabella, and Jane is godmother to Peri's daughter Stella.

She became a fairy godmother and " turned to the bad "; interestingly, Granny seems more offended by the fact Lily nonetheless was convinced she was the ' good one '.

She started modeling when she was 13, the same year Aoki was introduced by her godmother to Kate Moss, who would later take the young model under her wing.

She was godmother to James Roache, the son of Bill Roache, who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street.

She served as Wanda, the main character's ( Timmy's ) godmother.

She was godmother to American actress Ethel Barrymore.

She is godmother to Birdie Leigh Silverstein, the daughter of actress Busy Phillipps and screenwriter Marc Silverstein.

She was the godmother of Marie Antoinette who was born on the same day as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake devastated Lisbon.

She was also godmother to the writer Oriel Malet, and was the subject of Malet's book Marraine: a portrait of my godmother ( 1961 ).