She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She saw it then, the distant derrick of the wildcat -- a test well in unexplored country.

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 didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

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 went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

She then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship.

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

She retreated by leaving the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and there.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

She was Mary Lou Brew then, wide-eyed, but not naive.

She worked as a domestic, first in Newport for a year, and then in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for another year.

She had assumed before then that one day he would ask her to marry him.

She was thirty-one years old then.

She walked restlessly across the room, then back to the windows.

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

She made a face at him and then she laughed.

She threw back a cushion over one of the seats, unlocked a padlock on the chest beneath it, then presently straightened, holding a long knife and a wicked looking spear gun in her hand.

She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.

She regarded most attempts to make historical studies more female-inclusive as being artificial in nature, and an impediment to progress.

She travels to the past and attempts to hand the past Voyager over to the Vidiians while she takes her past self home, but this attempt is thwarted.

She attempts to flee, but Leatherface catches her and impales her on a meathook.

She soon finds herself in the company of both the White and Red Queens who relentlessly confound Alice by using word play to thwart her attempts at logical discussion.

She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress as her sister Mary had.

She made several ineffectual attempts to convert the King.

In October 2010, Angela Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) party at Potsdam, near Berlin, that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had " utterly failed ", stating: " The concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it does not work "., She continued to say that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values.

She believes that the Soldats have been corrupted by power and greed, and attempts to return the Soldats to its " original state " by reviving Noir.

She is the subject of a popular story in which she attempts to secure a respectable burial for her brother Polynices, even though he was a traitor to Thebes and the law forbids even mourning for him, on pain of death.

She attempts to persuade her sister Ismene to join her, but fails.

She engages in charitable works and attempts to guide her girls ' morals and to shape their characters, usually through experiments.

She continually attempts to pass as white, and Delilah, equally pained by the tension, continually attempts to develop in her a sense of pride about her blackness.

She was known to have been a very kind person and popular with the people of England, for example she was well known for her tireless attempts to ' intercede ' on behalf of the people, procuring pardons for people in the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381, and numerous other pardons for wrongdoers.

She constantly steals or attempts to steal Scrooge McDuck's Number One Dime, which she believes will play a vital role in magically obtaining the same fabulous wealth of its owner.

She states that the group attempts to " strip references of their original meaning without necessarily losing their status as icons ".

She attempts to injure him and fails.

She attempts to go reclaim Chris, but he refuses ( because he wants to stay with his friends — fellow refugees ).

She attempts to dissuade him from his quest, but sends him to Urshanabi the ferryman, who will help him cross the sea to Utnapishtim.

She asks him why he is in the underworld while alive, and he tells her about his various troubles and futile attempts to get home.

She complains that, despite increasingly desperate attempts to capture a husband via intensive flirtation at hurling matches, wakes, and pattern days, the young men insist on ignoring her in favor of late marriages to much older women.

She spurns any attempts to help her friends to build the float and decorate the gym, except in annoying everyone with ridiculous suggestions to build herself up and make herself the star, to the exclusion of everyone else.

She gets drunk and Harlan attempts to rape her in the parking lot.

She made several attempts to win election to the House of Commons as a Labour MP but was unsuccessful ,.

She attempts to find a way out and becomes alarmed by mysterious voices calling to her and by some subtle movements made by the supposedly lifeless mannequins around her.