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 had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.

She then studied for two years with the painter Francis Adolf Van der Wielen, who offered lessons in perspective and drawing from casts during the time that the new Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was under construction.

She was offered the role of Susan Mayer on Desperate Housewives, but declined.

She claimed she was offered two highly sought-after movie roles: the part of possessed child Regan MacNeil in the 1973 film, The Exorcist, and the starring role in Louis Malle's 1978 film, Pretty Baby.

) She was offered the chance to compose the score for James Cameron's 1997 feature film Titanic, but she declined.

She proposed an alliance, something which she had refused to do when offered one by Feodor's father, but was turned down.

She offered very limited aid to foreign Protestants and failed to provide her commanders with the funds to make a difference abroad.

She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).

She even goes on to state that Lady Nancy Astor ' even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England '.

She also offered her home as a shelter for an immigrant family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She was also offered the first and last libations of wine at feasts.

She was also offered a spot as a featured player on Saturday Night Live, but turned it down to do Friends.

She was a Romanian immigrant threatened with deportation for " low moral character " and offered the federal agency information on Dillinger in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation.

When Moessinger was hired as executive producer for Murder, She Wrote, he offered Straczynski a job as co-producer.

" She was offered a standard contract by MGM, and left school for Hollywood in 1941 with her sister Bappie accompanying her.

She had little intention of staying there, and briefly returned to Canberra in May 1983, before being offered a job in Sydney.

She was offered the lead role of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party at Helen Reddy's home.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

She, alongside her contemporaries " offered viable creative, intellectual, and business paths for establishing and maintaining agency, lyrical potency, marketing and ownership.

She insisted on hiring her own cameraman, and offered to waive her salary if the film went over budget as a result.

She was offered films in Hollywood, but turned them down and continued to work in France and England.

" She offered the headmaster 50 roubles to let him attend, which he accepted.

She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and, for her efforts, was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.