She brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

She thrust forward through the shadows and the trees that resisted her and tried to fling her back.

She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the empty nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby's death.

She tried to find some way to draw him out, to help him.

She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.

She dreamed up the cookie recipe, tried it, liked it and entered it in the contest.

She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.

She tried to poison him, but at the last second, Aegeus recognized his sword and knocked the poisoned cup out of Theseus ' hand.

She experimented with various opiates in her early adult years, and tried cocaine at age 19.

She tried applying the plein-air painting techniques used by the Impressionists to her own landscapes and portraiture, with little success.

She also tried to convince Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome.

She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her.

She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot.

She tried to suppress the book.

She was eventually tried for treason and sentenced to death, being beheaded in February 1587.

She tried to shoot her father with a crossbow after King Henry allowed her two young daughters to be blinded.

She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two " families ".

She tried to convince Belldandy to return to Heaven to resolve the bug problem and at the same time with the ulterior motive of alleviating her loneliness.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

She tells him that the IRA has tried and convicted him in absentia.

She tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power.

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 never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.

She fled to England and tried to break her contract with Warner Bros. Davis lost the lawsuit and soon returned to America.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She gave the creature to Gaia to raise.

She also has helped with breast cancer awareness ; in September 2008 she participated in the Stand Up to Cancer telethon, to help raise funds to accelerate cancer research.

She has worked with Farm Sanctuary to raise awareness about the cruelty of factory farming and to promote the compassionate treatment of farm animals.

She then used this money plus an earlier loan from Charles to raise a mercenary army, scouring Brabant for men, which were added to a small force of Hainaut troops.

She therefore plans to marry Edgar and use that position to help raise Heathcliff's standing.

She tried to raise a rebellion around Pelusium, but she was soon forced to flee with her only remaining sister, Arsinoë.

She offered to help raise funds for VVAW, and, for her efforts, was rewarded with the title of Honorary National Coordinator.

She didn't see anyone raise their hands.

She helped to set up artificial fish ponds to raise carp, which had disappeared from the local diet.

She would raise a terrible storm, dooming the ship and every sailor on board.

She then used this money, plus an earlier loan from Charles, to raise a mercenary army and invade England, deposing her husband Edward II, who was then murdered in 1327.

She cares deeply about Lizzie, but was still trying to figure out how to raise a teenager.

She is a great warrior and a companion of Fionn's aunt, the druidess Bodhmall ; together they raise the boy in secret in the forest of Sliabh Bladhma.

She also put in numerous personal appearances to hospitals, threw parties, performed at United Service Organizations ( USO ) shows and war bond rallies, to raise funds to support the war, on behalf of the Victory Committee.

She joined actor Clarence Muse, one of the earliest black members of the Screen Actors Guild, for an NBC radio broadcast to raise funds for Red Cross relief programs for Americans, who had been displaced by devastating floods.

She tells him to return to the world and raise their children, while she will wait below to receive them when they die ( Orbell 1998: 38 ).

She is always obsessed with trying to raise the power of demons to its peak.

She decided to raise the social level of the RMS concerts by attending them personally with her court.

She helped run a Naval Auxiliary Canteen and toured frequently to raise funds.

She is a prostitute who has trained herself in streetfighting and is attempting to raise enough money to get away from her pimp, Rick.

She was to spend the next two years touring the United States and Canada to raise funds for war-ravaged Austria and Hungary.

She commonly speaks at colleges and universities to educate and raise awareness about assault.

She retired from the road to raise the child while The Pips toured on their own.

She also authored two humorous, bestselling memoirs on the lines of Durrell's books, to raise money for conservation efforts.