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 also taught them to sing `` I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate ''.

She had taught classes in botany, astronomy ( with the aid of a telescope ), geometry, and psychology.

She bound Andrew as a boy as an apprentice tailor ; Johnson had no formal education but taught himself how to read and write, with some help from his masters, as was their obligation under his apprenticeship.

She taught her husband arithmetic up to basic algebra and tutored him to improve his literacy, reading, and writing skills.

She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.

She was also taught domestic skills, such as needlepoint, lace-making, embroidery, music and dancing.

She once described him as a teacher " that could have taught the stones to draw correctly.

She taught a one-quarter seminar on writing about science.

She taught herself German out of books and practised piano.

She taught for five years at Bickley, Surbiton and Chessington, writing in her spare time.

She was a classics major at Scripps College, worked for the Delta Ministry in 1965 and taught at Howard University School of Religion from 1966 to 1976.

She then taught for three years at John F. Kennedy Elementary School, a Houston Independent School District school in Houston, until 1972.

She taught at The New School and Columbia University, where she was an adjunct professor from 1954 to 1978.

She founded and taught at the Columbia Religious and Industrial School for Jewish Girls.

" She believed that children were born persons and should be respected as such ; they should also be taught the Way of the Will and the Way of Reason.

She taught first at Eunice Kenyon's Friends ' Seminary, and then at the Canajoharie Academy in 1846, where she rose to become headmistress of the Female Department.

She taught in Mississippi and Tennessee before going to Tuskegee to work.

She was also taught archery, falconry, horseback riding, and hunting.

She performed her own stunts and was taught martial arts by Bruce Lee.

She was the daughter of prosperous surgeon Dr. Prosper Malapert, who owned a private practice in Poitiers and taught anatomy at the University of Poitiers ' School of Medicine.

She found herself continuing her education in Germany, being taught by Archbishop Bruno of Trier.

She then taught kindergarten for four years.

She was the eldest of four children and was taught to always share with the less fortunate, despite her family ’ s meagre earnings.

She educated all her sons and in particular taught her human sons the art of war, helping them to fashion and use weapons.

" She has taught at the University of British Columbia ( 1965 ), Sir George Williams University in Montreal ( 1967 – 68 ), the University of Alberta ( 1969 – 70 ), York University in Toronto ( 1971 – 72 ), the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa ( 1985 ), where she was visiting M. F. A.