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She was descended from Robert Fulton, developer of the steamboat, from the Plymouth Colony's first governor, William Bradford, and on her mother's side she was the granddaughter of General Walter Phelps, who commanded troops at the Civil War Battle of Antietam and the seventh great-granddaughter of Puritan colonist William Phelps.
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She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She was quick.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.
She was bewildered.
She was standing in a thick grove.
She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.
She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.
She was standing with her back to the glass door.
She was just not able to break the spell.
She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
She confessed she was unhappy, he asked was it her husband??
She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.
She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.
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Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.
She is a vampiric Prince in Mexico according to setting information given for the popular role-playing game Vampire: the Requiem, as well as having an entire bloodline of vampires named after her and supposedly descended from her.
She then descended into the adyton ( Greek for " inaccessible ") and mounted her tripod seat, holding laurel leaves and a dish of Kassotis spring water into which she gazed.
She too touched the bowl and became stuck, a mist descended and the fort then disappeared.
She had a fair complexion, blue eyes and her hair colour was between reddish-blonde and auburn ; these were typical traits in the Trastámara family which descended from Peter I of Castile.
She was descended on both sides from distinguished Jewish families ; her parents were Abraham Mendelssohn ( who was the son of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and later changed the family surname to Mendelssohn Bartholdy ), and Lea, née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig.
She came from an upper class background, being the daughter of Captain Sir St Vincent Hawkins-Whitshed, 3rd Baronet ( 1837 – 1871 ) ( see Hawkins-Whitshed Baronets ) by his wife Anne Alicia ( née Handcock ) ( 1837 – 1908 ), and further back was descended from the aristocratic Bentinck family, and was therefore related to the Dukes of Portland.
She was born to Charles Crooke Siddall, who claimed that his family descended from nobility, and Eleanor Evans, a family of both English and Welsh descent.
She was descended from pioneers who could trace their ancestry to the Mayflower.
She then descended onto the island amidst a series of spectacular terrestrial and aerial phenomena.
She was born into the family of the Aelii Tuberones, and thus apparently descended from the consul of 11 BC.
She was also legitimately descended from Infanta Sancha Henriques of Portugal, the daughter of Henry, Count of Portugal.
She was supposed to be descended from the deerhounds of Cher Foreman McDonald.
She was born Vera Ellen Westmeier Rohe in Norwood, Ohio, an enclave of Cincinnati, to Martin Rohe and Alma Catherine Westmeier, both descended from German immigrants.
She was also descended from ancient Scottish nobility.
She was the oldest child of parents descended from Portuguese Marranos who sought asylum in England in the eighteenth century.
She is descended from the Verdugo family, one of California's earliest landed families.
She drowned in an elevator car when it filled with water as it descended to the lower floor of the garage.
" She was descended from a family that first settled in Provincetown on Cape Cod in 1690.
She wrote that Celts descended from the Red race of Atlantis, but intermingled with the White race to retain the red hair but not the red skin tone.
She was the daughter of Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire ( himself a second cousin of the 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde ) and was descended from wealthy cotton manufacturers, and his wife ( Lucy ) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner, later Countess of Scarbrough.
She was the daughter of Robert Ashton of Croughton, Cheshire ( himself a second cousin of the 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde ) descended from wealthy cotton manufacturers, and his wife ( Lucy ) Cecilia Dunn-Gardner, later Countess of Scarbrough, and stepdaughter of the 10th Earl of Scarbrough.
She descended from the Portuguese-Indian Barrettos of the Philippines and distantly related to the Zambales Barrettos.
She also included antiques into each of her comfortable rooms, a love of which descended from her grandparents.
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