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 did not believe in the theory of symbiosis proposed by Simon Schwendener, the German mycologist as previously thought, rather she proposed a more independent process of reproduction.

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

She used the opportunity to propagate her own Witch-Cult theory, failing to mention the alternate theories proposed by other academics.

She was rumored to be married to Egyptian musician Abdel Halim Hafez for an unknown period of time ( 6 years were proposed ).

She publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community ( EEC, later European Union ) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists.

She pursued Harding persistently, until he reluctantly proposed.

She received the George A. Miller Award for her proposed theory of group socialization ( GS theory ).

She proposed the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988, the first Australian legislation which gave legal protection of rare species.

She became close friends with Boris Pasternak ( who, though married, proposed to her many times ) and rumours began to circulate that she was having an affair with influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok.

She also presided over debates on the constitution, dealing with filibusters and numerous points of order, as well as discussions over the proposed Energy Security Act, against which the loyal opposition mounted a counter-campaign that culminated in a two week bell-ringing episode when the Conservatives ' Whip refused to appear in the Commons to indicate that the opposition was ready for a vote.

She was one of the deities Macrobius proposed as the secret tutelary of Rome.

She proposed having the building relocated on the property and restored for a Grovetown City Museum to preserve the past for future generations.

She then relates to Peter how Uncle Ben proposed to her, and that they would have been married for fifty years " this August ", had Ben not been killed.

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

She proposed to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, that the Infante Charles marry the 8 year old Archduchess Maria Theresa and that her second surviving son, the Infante Philip, marry the 7 year old Archduchess Maria Anna.

She also proposed that a heat shock protein, hsp90, may act in the same way, normally preventing phenotypic consequences of genetic changes, but showing all changes at once when the HSP system is overloaded, either pharmacologically or under stressful environmental conditions.

She told her neighbors that he had proposed marriage.

She proposed to investigate Standard Oil and Rockefeller by using documents-hundreds of thousands of pages scattered throughout the nation-then fleshing out her findings through well-informed interviews with the company's current and former executives, competitors, government regulators, antitrust lawyers, and academic experts.

Following the restoration of the Portuguese Royal House, and her father's accession to the throne on 1 December 1640, she was proposed as a bride for John of Austria, François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, Louis XIV and Charles II, She was seen as a useful conduit for contracting an alliance between Portugal and England, after the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in which Portugal was arguably abandoned by France.

She journeyed to New York and met American railway heir Clendenin Ryan Jr ( 1905 – 1957 ), grandson of Thomas Fortune Ryan, marrying him on 20 February 1935, after he proposed on their third date, in Saint Patrick's Cathedral in New York.

She was a friend and student of Beethoven's to whom he proposed in 1810, though she turned him down to marry the Austrian nobleman and state official Wilhelm von Droßdik in 1816.

She was proposed for sainthood by the Claretian Missionaries in 1983.

She is working on a contract with the marketing firm Blue Ant to judge the effectiveness of a proposed corporate logo for a shoe company.