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 challenges him to prove that he believes she is human — by making love to her.

She then overcomes the four challenges of the We before entering the final temple where the Heart of the We is kept.

She sleeps with Septimus, and the repeatedly cuckolded Mr. Chater challenges him to a duel.

She was asked to stay in Poland and join the Polish national athletic team ; she also continued to run in various American challenges and games.

She tells her father she still loves Morris and challenges him to change his will if he's afraid of how she will spend his money after he dies.

She attempts to attract a fairy in the hope that they will grant her wish, but when she succeeds in drawing the Amadan to her, she accidentally challenges him to a contest to see who is the greatest fool.

She has quite a fiery temper, and aggressively challenges other girls to beauty contests.

She entraps him but he still challenges her ethics, prompting her to reveal she has been coming to Earth for centuries to harvest her precious chemicals.

One of the last arguments in her document is directed to men who still see women as lesser beings: “ the foolproof way to evaluate the soul of women is to join them to all the activities of man, if man persists against this, let him share his fortune with woman by the wisdom of the laws .” She challenges men that, if they wish, they may evaluate scientifically the consequences of joining man and woman in equal political rights.

She described the ' postwar challenges ,' saying ' there is no history of democratic government in Iraq ,' that its ' economy and infrastructure is in ruins after years of war and sanctions ' and that rebuilding would take ' a great deal of money.

' 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 gave her last public speech, on May 25, 2011, at the Canadian Club of Ottawa, entitled Serving Parliament Through a Decade of Change, where she warned the government faces long-term fiscal pressures that will mean " very hard choices " between raising taxes or cutting programs and encouraged the government to publicize its long-term fiscal projections because " without them, we cannot begin to understand the scale and complexity of our financial challenges and the implication of policy choices .".

She has been seen to have a thirst to prove herself, for example, her introductory strip in which she challenges Dennis the Menace to a fight.

She led the colony for nearly 25 years, against a background of two world wars, the Great Depression and other challenges.

In her book, Information Ecologies Nardi passionately argues that “ Human expertise, judgment and creativity can be supported, but not replaced by computer-based tools .” She argues that we can not, either with technophilia or technophobia, view technological change as “ inevitable .” Rather, she challenges us to be critical users of technology who actively engage in conversation on the social impacts of technology.

She challenges Brooklyn to a " Battle Of The Divas " at Madison Square Garden.

She cheekily challenges Kate's authority by calling her " Kitty ", whilst being her confidant at the same time.

She beat off challenges from the other semifinalists: Russia, Ireland, South Africa, India, Brazil, Colombia, USA, Puerto Rico and eventual first runner-up Veruska Ramírez of Venezuela, who would prove to be her main competitor.

She can be very over-emotional and attention-seeking and is always telling dramatic stories about herself which seem unlikely, although when Sally challenges her about her claim to have been trapped in a photo booth for three hours Annie is easily able to provide photographic evidence.

Astell argues that education will help women to make better matrimonial choices and meet the challenges of the married state: " She has need of a strong Reason, of a truly Christian and well-temper'd Spirit, of all the Assistance the best Education can give her, and ought to have some good assurance of her own Firmness and Vertue, who ventures on such a Trial ".

She then challenges Joey Wheeler to a duel, during which she reveals her true intentions for winning the contest.

She challenges Joey to a duel, claiming him to be the reason why she can never achieve greatness.

She then challenges Joey to a duel.

She takes this idea of identity and challenges it with this story.