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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 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 stood as godmother for Matilda of Scotland
, who would become Queen of England after marrying Matilda's son Henry
I.
She and up
She rubbed
her eyes
and stretched
, then sat
up, her hands going
to her hair
.
She had picked
up the quirt
and was twirling
it around
her wrist
and smiling at him
.
She brought
up her free hand
to hit him
, but this time he was quicker
.
She finally regained
her balance
and got
up in
the saddle
.
She seemed
to have come such
a long distance -- too far for
her destination which had wilfully been swallowed
up in
the greedy gloom of
the trees
.
She had
to get away
from here before this demoniac possession swallowed
up the liquid of
her eyes
and sank into
the fibers of
her brain
, depriving
her of reason
and sight
.
She had driven
up with
her husband in
a convertible with Eastern license plates
, although
the two drivers knew nothing at
the moment about that
.
She pulled her legs
up under
her, to rise
, her full peasant skirt drawing
up her thighs
, and Feathertop's music pfffted away
.
She would often go
up on
the roof
to see
the attendant take down
the flag in
the evening
.
She looked
up and saw that
, without knowing
it, Mrs. Coolidge was holding
it aloft
.
She had been picked
up by
the Russians
, questioned in connection with some pamphlets
, sentenced
to life imprisonment for espionage
.
She escaped
, crawled through
the usual mine fields
, under barbed wire
, was shot at
, swam
a river
, and we finally picked
her up in Linz
.
She gave me
the names of some people who would surely help pay for
the flowers
and might even march
up to the monument with me
.
She smoothed
the covers on Scotty's bed
and picked things
up from the floor
.

``
She didn't really say '' --
She glanced away at
the floor
, then swooped gracefully
and picked
up one of Scotty's slippers
.
She lost not
a second
, picking herself
up and continuing
her pilgrimage
to Laura
.
She was taken
up in worry for
the reckless old man
.
She sprang
up and went swiftly
to the bedroom
.
She swung
her eyes
up to the blue of
the window
, her jaws gently mashing
the bitter beans
.
She enjoyed great parties when she would sit
up talking
and dancing
and drinking all night
, but
it always seemed
to her that being alone
, especially alone in
her house
, was
the realest part of life
.
She had felt that
her arm wanted
to go
up in
the first trial
, but had consciously prevented
it from so doing
.
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