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 went on to write six more Moomin books, a number of picture books and comic strips.

She seems to be a widow as portrayed in some strips.

She has also been featured in comic strips and mass merchandising.

She also appears to have a small rivalry with The Bash Street Kids, as shown in feature length strips drawn by Mike Pearse.

She posts updates about what she and Nigel are doing, which include covertly monitoring the activities of a certain human code-named “ Subject A ” who appears to be psychically connected to the world of Kevin and Kell as well as of another mostly human world in which the King Features-syndicated comic strips On the Fastrack and Safe Havens are set.

She was involved in an artist event called " Pass the Peril " in which four different artists were to draw four different strips based on the character and the website.

She is a child psychologist, but works only part time after Jeremy's birth, and her profession is rarely mentioned except in early strips.

She started writing comic strips at the urging of her mother and was first published in 1976 by Universal Press Syndicate, now Universal Uclick.

She was hired in 1947 by The Washington Star and began her career as a journalist, a path she was inspired to take by reading Jane Arden comic strips.

She has subsequently become a friend of Davan's, and she appeared in a large number of strips with him in 2006 ( a running theme was her trying to break him out of his dark, cynical shell, something echoed by various other characters over the years, and him rebuffing her ).

She spread a sheet over her bed and began tearing strips of old muslin.

She lettered several newspaper strips in the 1970s and 1980s, including Star Hawks, Annie, and Beetle Bailey.

She was first mentioned in early 1959 and throughout a long series of strips before her first appearance in August 1959.

She also played outfield ( and sometimes third base ) on Charlie Brown's baseball team, and popped up in that capacity from time to time in later strips.

She was initially presented, in both the advance press release and the first few strips, as Linus ' schoolmate.

She is in debt to an abusive club owner, Nelly Miller ( Don Rickles ), who strips Peggy of her dress and jewelry as a down payment and threatens her with violence.

She created a variety of comic strips ( Weegee, Mimi the Mermaid, Peg and Pudy, the Struglettes, Streamline Babies ), but none were selected for publication.

She is the first to lose in the game & as a result, she strips.

: She strips Miyuki and puts her in some frilly lingerie.

She always wears a string of pearls around her neck ( this also distinguishes her from Sherman in the black-and-white strips during the week ).

She is an avid follower of Martha Stewart and has thrown parties in her honor in several strips.

She also figures prominently in Valentine's Day strips, several of which focus on Charlie Brown's hope of getting a valentine from her ( or anyone for that matter ; typically Charlie gets nothing and Snoopy gets tons of valentines ).

She drew Girl Commandos and other strips for Harvey Comics, signing herself B.