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 crossed into Pennsylvania with a feeling of relief and awe, and recalled the experience years later:

" She acknowledged her " dumpy figure, with shoulders too broad, legs too sturdy, hands too blunt ", and was also acutely aware of her small eyes that appeared crossed due to a cast in her right eye.

She has crossed multiple genres throughout her career.

She crossed the Pacific Ocean from Japan to New Spain in 1614.

She returned to the World No. 2 ranking and crossed over US $ 12 million in career prize money.

She was, he argues, a brave lesbian of her times ( which caused her heartache and misery ) and a person of integrity who remained kind and loyal to most everyone with whom she crossed paths.

She won titles on all four surfaces and crossed the $ 10 million mark in career prize money in 1998, the fifth player to reach the milestone.

She conquered Narnia and reigned as a tyrant in 900, using her wand to turn anyone who crossed her into stone.

" She continued to write poems as she crossed the plains, documenting the pioneer trail and life in Utah.

She crossed the Mississippi River which had frozen over in February 1839.

She crossed the finishing line near the French coast at Ushant at 22: 29 UTC on 7 February 2005 beating the previous record set by French sailor Francis Joyon by 1 day, 8 hours, 35 minutes, 49 seconds.

She is the only living holder of the Star of Grayson, and the first in six hundred years to receive it twice, as noted by the crossed swords beneath.

She became a nun after being impressed by the missionary work of her aunt, this after she had to explain to the fiancee of a toy salesman who dated Elsie for eight months the real reason that they broke up that she was the one that wanted to see other people but when she mentioned to him that she might "... join a convent " he blamed himself and had to seek help over what happened after they crossed paths again during a vacation at a San Juan hotel.

She further states that a second major wave of Sabeans crossed over to Ethiopia in the 6th and 5th centuries BC to escape Nebuchadnezzar.

She did not manage to finish another marathon race until October 2011, when she crossed the line in 2: 30: 14 hours for third at the Beijing Marathon.

She repeatedly crossed into Germany to deliver propaganda materials.

She crossed Europe with her boyfriend, which led to her first writing success, Wind in my Wheels.

She is described as tall, willowy, blond, and " seen from the side, most awfully good-looking ," but her manner is forceful and spectacularly icy whenever her will is crossed.

She crossed the $ 1 million mark in LPGA career earnings at the U. S. Women's Open and finished in sixth place on the money list.

She currently holds 16 world records and has received over 41 honours and awards, having crossed many of the world's most challenging bodies of water.

She also participated in the Citizenship Caravans that crossed the country.

She has, however, crossed paths with the villainous Doctor Light on several occasions.

She crossed a picket line of striking pilots to land a job at Eastern Airlines — a move she thought necessary to break in.

She did so, and subsequently crossed the floor with four other National senators to vote for the motion.