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 repeatedly challenged the Sumo Association's policy by requesting to be allowed to fulfill her traditional role as Governor.

She finds the motel, which Menzies recommended to her, has no other guests and is staffed only by a mentally challenged night manager ( Dennis Weaver ).

She staunchly opposed the Republican's Head Start program overhaul in the 108th Congress, invoking her experience growing up poor and challenged by a speech impediment.

She challenged in court the obligation to return Louis de Bézé's appanages to the royal domain.

She notes that many such works challenged her understanding, as they often contained many difficult words and expressions that she had not previously encountered.

" She challenged him to find biblical support for Sunday observance.

She first ran for political office in 1972, when she challenged incumbent Peter Arrigoni, a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors, but lost a close election.

She challenged her CVP colleague Joseph Deiss for his seat, but lost by 138 to 96.

She challenged the authority of the ministers, exposing the subordination of women in the culture of colonial Massachusetts.

She challenged incumbent Republican U. S. Congressman Dick Chrysler of Michigan's 8th congressional district.

According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

According to Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

She challenged the will and eventually secured half of her late husband's estate ($ 4 million, worth about $ 52 million in 2011 currency ), but the long years had taken a toll on Mary and it was believed she would not live much longer.

She had a tenuous hold on the kingdom as her right to the throne was constantly being challenged by her illegitimate half-brother James.

She challenged it to submerge several gourds in water and when it failed in its task, it retreated and she was saved from the promised marriage.

She challenged the press to deliver proof, and offered Rs 1 crore ( Rs 10 million ) if an injured woman was found.

' She is challenged by the arrival of Mark, an ill gay man who reminds Gayle of her dead, gay son, and the movie chronicles the challenges of the two as they learn to accept each other as they are.

She was challenged by Republican Kansas State Senator Jim Barnett.

She became unsatisfied with his leadership, which she considered weak, and built support for a change through the GLC Women's Group ; in April 1983 she challenged him and was elected as the new leader.

She went on to referee an Impact Zone Wrestling match on February 14, 2006 in Tempe, Arizona and an XJAM Wrestling match on February 16, 2006 in Minot, North Dakota, where she challenged Ann-Thraxx to wrestle her, with Ann-Thraxx refusing.

She challenged Jacqueline for the Women's Championship on March 9, but she was unsuccessful.

" She has commented that she is most proud of her performance in 1999's Our Guys: Outrage in Glen Ridge, in which she played a mentally challenged girl who is raped by football players.

She was challenged in the Democratic primary and won the three candidate field with 91 % of the vote.

She was challenged in the primary by Nancy L. Cook and defeated her 89 %– 11 %.