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 pleaded to her brother to let her return home, but he only sent a few agents who tried to assist in helping her situation and refused to let her return home.

She went from one god to another, but each one pleaded with her and she had not the heart to go through with it until she found Dumuzid / Tammuz richly dressed and on her throne.

She told him to kiss the first stone he found in the morning on his way to court, and he did so, with the result that he pleaded his case with great eloquence and won.

She pleaded for him to leave the sport but wasn't able to convince him to do so, and one night before he boxed Salvador Ugalde, she grabbed a rifle and shot herself, dying instantly.

She pleaded " no contest " to avoid a court appearance, and in return for a promise to refrain from breaking any laws for a year, the charges were once again dropped.

She initially didn't want to do the film but after producer and director Gregory Ratoff pleaded with her and claimed he would go bankrupt if she didn't, West relented.

She told MacCarthy to kiss the first stone he found in the morning on his way to court, and he did so, with the result that he pleaded his case with great eloquence and won.

She pleaded not guilty and was held in lieu of $ 25, 000 bail.

She pleaded for her life, baring her breasts to show she was a nursing mother.

She pleaded to her brother Shiva — the Lord of Varanasi — who granted her the boon that no pilgrimage to Varanasi would be deemed complete without her worship.

She referred to him as " that certain gentleman " ( Dieser gewisse Herr ) and pleaded illness when Hitler came on an official tour in 1934.

She then pleaded guilty.

She also testified that Tate had pleaded for her life and that of her unborn child, to which Atkins replied, " Woman, I have no mercy for you.

She pleaded guilty to the charges against her.

She pleaded guilty.

She pleaded she had no knowledge that Hickes's offence was anything more serious than illegal preaching.

She would have pleaded guilty to four counts of maltreating prisoners, two counts of conspiracy, and one count of dereliction of duty.

She subsequently pleaded no contest and was sentenced to two-years probation, fined, and ordered to take a defensive driving course.

She pleaded guilty in 2005 to Lewd or Lascivious Battery.

She also pleaded to Childeric for the welfare of prisoners of war, and met with a favorable response.

She pleaded unsuccessfully with him for the return of the body of her slain son king Harold.

She pleaded with the Prophet, to take notice of the pitiful and desperate condition in which she found herself.

She pleaded for an augmentation of her jointure with the authorities and, to reach a compromise with the late Earl's executors, threatened " by some froward advice " to claim her dower rights.

She pleaded guilty to £ 17, 000 of benefits fraud in July 2009 at Blackfriars Crown Court.