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 notice that the customer seized her purchase and turned away without a smile or a word of thanks.

She is described as being very sickly and pale, thanks to dieting, her pill addiction, and the stomach pumping operation she underwent earlier in the story.

She walks around the table occupied by gamblers — including Luis — and thanks them for allowing her to watch.

She ultimately raises Heinrich I, who " thanks " her by turning her into his undead slave.

She uses a jian called " Sword of the Ancestor " for regular combat, and her combination attacks include Red Rocket and other fire attacks, thanks to Mushu.

She was freed thanks to Robert, bishop of Cambrai and returned to the court of her brother, Philip of Flanders

She swiftly drained Morgana's magic using a source absorber, doubling her power, but lost it thanks to the intervention of an alternate Darkwing.

She survived, however, thanks to the underlying devotion she had earned over the years.

( Senff missed a turning point and had to swim back before completing the last 50 m. She nevertheless beat Mastenbroek thanks to an outstanding last leg.

She is known as one of the first Hollywood scream queens thanks to her role in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ).

She thanks him for the sacrifice and they make amends, becoming friends at last after five years of rivalry

She immediately stood out on the series, partly thanks to her regular role as the anchor on the show's fake newscasts, but also due to her comedic skills ( particularly a devastating impression of Nancy Reagan ) and her remarkably good looks.

She thanks Cress for freeing her and asks him to also free the person in the cell across from hers, who she says is her mother.

She and Hawkeye frequently clash thanks to his almost suicidal nature after his family is killed.

" She thanks Chance for the place to sleep and then leaves.

She learned that he had sold her arsenal to Fang in exchange for jade mines in China thanks to one of his aides.

She was able to sneak into their ranks thanks to the fact that her father Rufus was an on-air personality for the radio station.

She encountered the Syndicate in the wake of their defeat by the Demon Fox, and thanks to Flashback, survived a booby trap set by John Wing's Demon Fox Tong.

She says of singing, " I love music as I grew up with it thanks to my father who loves to sing.

She runs into James outside the office ; he had overheard the discussion, and he thanks her.

She thanks him, and reaches for her purse, but this supposedly universal gesture indicating " tip " seems foreign to him ; he walks away.

She rose to prominence when her single " Saturday Night " became the summer smash hit of 1994, thanks to extensive play in the clubs of the Mediterranean and the fact that it had a dance which many found easy to learn.

She claims that, thanks to seeing Bergman ’ s work, she “ ‘ fell in love ’ with the medium and its possibilities for representing inner psychic worlds .” On top of that, she boasts an impressive body of work that has won her awards all over the world in the last forty years.

She had been exposed to North American native art in her Berkeley studies, thanks to Margaret Peterson O ' Hagan ; while in England she studied African and prehistoric art in London libraries.