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She and stood
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 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 stood as godmother for Matilda
of Scotland
, who
would become Queen
of England after marrying Matilda's
son Henry I
.
She and there
She lay
there, making no effort
to get back on her feet
.
She remembered little
of her previous journey
there with Grace
, and
she could but hope that her dedication
to her mission
would enable her
to accomplish it
.
She had
the feeling that
, under
the mouldering leaves
, there would be
the bodies
of dead animals
, quietly decaying and giving their soil back
to the mountain
.
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 remained squatting on her heels all
the time we were
there ; ;
She used
to tell me
, `` When I stand
there and look
at the flag blowing
this way and that way
, I have
the wonderful
, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way
the wind blows ''
.
She reached and reached around
the dress
, but
there was nothing
there.
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 had talked
to him right
there, with
the hot sun
in his face
, which made
him sweat and feel ashamed
.
She always let it be known that
there was wine
in the pot roast or that
the chicken had been marinated
in brandy
, and that Koussevitzky's second cousin was an intimate
of theirs
.
She retreated by leaving
the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and
there.
She named 48 items
, and said
there were `` many more
things which it
would take too long
to write ''
.
She began
to doubt whether
there had been
in fact
a lethal dose
of opium
in the cup
.
She took Glendora
to the smokehouse
, unlocked it and saw with satisfaction
there was still
a quantity
of hams and sides
of bacon
, hanging from
the smoke-stained rafters
.
She refused
to have
a doctor
, insisting
there was nothing
a doctor could do for her
.
She sees that
there is
a cup
of steaming hot coffee awaiting
him and
the two chat informally as
she presents
the rules
of the center and explains procedures
.
She had always been able
to ignore
the moral question because
there had been no choice
.
She had better stay
there, Lucy thought ; ;
She was not alone for
there were three other such children
in the big city's special nursery
.
She gave birth
there and was accepted by
the people
, offering them her promise that her
son would be always favourable toward
the city
.
She stops feeding while they are
there and they consume their egg yolks
.
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