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 fled from him and dove into the spring at Delphi, at the base of Mt.

She fled through the locked door, unharmed.

She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains.

She fled to England, where Elizabeth immediately had her arrested.

She became Jesus ' close friend and most prominent during his last days, being present at the cross after the male disciples ( excepting John the Beloved ) had fled, and at his burial.

A daughter of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and Elizabeth Stuart, also known as the " Winter King and Queen of Bohemia " for their short rule in that country, Sophia was born in The Wassenaer Hof, The Hague, Dutch Republic, where her parents fled into exile after the Battle of White Mountain. She was also the granddaughter of James VI of Scotland., At birth, Sophia was granted an annuity of 40 thalers by the Estates of Friesland.

She, like her sister, fled to Jordan and has stood up for her father's rights.

She fled with her children and sisters to Jordan.

She fled to England and tried to break her contract with Warner Bros. Davis lost the lawsuit and soon returned to America.

She fled to escape punishment.

She fled the set, first for Switzerland, then for London.

She battled the X-Men and fled to the stars, devoured the energies of the D ' Bari star system to satisfy her " hunger " as Dark Phoenix, annihilating the five billion inhabitants of its fourth planet, and destroyed a nearby Shi ' Ar observatory vessel which opened fire on her before returning to Earth.

She fled to her parents ' home in Shanghai and returned to the drama school in Jinan, where she was warmly received.

She escaped and fled to England, and some of the nobility remained faithful to her cause.

She was ravished by Telamon who then fled away ; when her father learned of that, he ordered for her to be cast in the sea, but the guard who was to perform that took pity on her and sold her away ; the one who bought her happened to be Telamon.

She then committed suicide and the brothers fled to the shepherds who had found them.

She fled to Conn, and Conn put her under the protection of Cumhall's brother-in-law Fiacal mac Conchinn.

She won a second battle against Díthorba's sons, who fled into the wilderness of Connacht.

She fled to the underworld because she discovered that Tāne, whom she had married, was also her father.

She ran around the cave, fled down the hill, and finally sped off with Miss Derek.

She fled there at the age of twelve, to get away from her alcoholic family and abusive father.

She fled to Rome, then to Paris, where Alexander was allowed to rejoin her, six months later, for their honeymoon ; the government finally allowed Alexander and Aspasia to return to Greece in the summer of 1920.

She fled to Amesbury Priory, where she stayed under the protection of her aunt Mary de Burgh, who was a nun there, and where Theobald's posthumous daughter, Isabel de Verdun, named after the Queen, was born on 21 March 1317.

She was reported to have emptied their bank accounts and fled.