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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 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 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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