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.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

She is a vampiric Prince in Mexico according to setting information given for the popular role-playing game Vampire: the Requiem, as well as having an entire bloodline of vampires named after her and supposedly descended from her.

She then descended into the adyton ( Greek for " inaccessible ") and mounted her tripod seat, holding laurel leaves and a dish of Kassotis spring water into which she gazed.

She too touched the bowl and became stuck, a mist descended and the fort then disappeared.

She had a fair complexion, blue eyes and her hair colour was between reddish-blonde and auburn ; these were typical traits in the Trastámara family which descended from Peter I of Castile.

She was descended on both sides from distinguished Jewish families ; her parents were Abraham Mendelssohn ( who was the son of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and later changed the family surname to Mendelssohn Bartholdy ), and Lea, née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig.

She came from an upper class background, being the daughter of Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd Baronet ( 1837 – 1871 ) ( see Hawkins-Whitshed Baronets ) by his wife Anne Alicia ( née Handcock ) ( 1837 – 1908 ), and further back was descended from the aristocratic Bentinck family, and was therefore related to the Dukes of Portland.

She was born to Charles Crooke Siddall, who claimed that his family descended from nobility, and Eleanor Evans, a family of both English and Welsh descent.

She was descended from pioneers who could trace their ancestry to the Mayflower.

She was born into the family of the Aelii Tuberones, and thus apparently descended from the consul of 11 BC.

She was also legitimately descended from Infanta Sancha Henriques of Portugal, the daughter of Henry, Count of Portugal.

She was supposed to be descended from the deerhounds of Cher Foreman McDonald.

She was born Vera Ellen Westmeier Rohe in Norwood, Ohio, an enclave of Cincinnati, to Martin Rohe and Alma Catherine Westmeier, both descended from German immigrants.

She was also descended from ancient Scottish nobility.

She was the oldest child of parents descended from Portuguese Marranos who sought asylum in England in the eighteenth century.

She is descended from the Verdugo family, one of California's earliest landed families.

She drowned in an elevator car when it filled with water as it descended to the lower floor of the garage.

She was descended from Robert Fulton, developer of the steamboat, from the Plymouth Colony's first governor, William Bradford, and on her mother's side she was the granddaughter of General Walter Phelps, who commanded troops at the Civil War Battle of Antietam and the seventh great-granddaughter of Puritan colonist William Phelps.

" She was descended from a family that first settled in Provincetown on Cape Cod in 1690.

She wrote that Celts descended from the Red race of Atlantis, but intermingled with the White race to retain the red hair but not the red skin tone.

She was the daughter of Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire ( himself a second cousin of the 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde ) and was descended from wealthy cotton manufacturers, and his wife ( Lucy ) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner, later Countess of Scarbrough.

She was the daughter of Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire ( himself a second cousin of the 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde ) descended from wealthy cotton manufacturers, and his wife ( Lucy ) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner, later Countess of Scarbrough, and stepdaughter of the 10th Earl of Scarbrough.

She descended from the Portuguese-Indian Barrettos of the Philippines and distantly related to the Zambales Barrettos.

She also included antiques into each of her comfortable rooms, a love of which descended from her grandparents.