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She was powerless ( nil agis, " you can do nothing ," the poet repeats twice ); the god " occupies her with his embrace ," and after overpowering her to achieve his goal, treats the encounter as contractual: " In exchange for our intercourse ( pro concubitu ), the right ( ius ) of the hinge will be yours ; take that as payment for the virginity you deposited " ( 6. 119 – 128 ).
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She and was
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.
She and powerless
She was powerless to stop the flow of events.
She even wanted to overpower him, but was left powerless after shortly being bonded to the Phoenix Force.
She has the ability to shoot " psionic bullets " from any kind of gun when in her " Jonah Hex " mode ; otherwise she was powerless.
She finds that she is still powerless and a note left by Freddy Freeman with a nurse asks her not to look for him as he is trying to get the powers of Shazam back, per the orders of Marvel.
She accepted the idea that powerful groups would enslave the powerless, and she would have grown up with Oriental tales of " The Turk " taking European slaves.
She repeatedly taunted Maxim with sordid tales of her numerous love affairs and suggested that she was pregnant with another man's child, which she would raise under the pretense that it was Maxim's and he would be powerless to stop her.
She tries to get away from him but as he is much stronger than her, she is powerless and ceases to resist.
She dates Kyle Rayner for a while and retires from the Darkstars, leaving her powerless.
" She alertly puts the top back on the bottle of liquor her father is hiding in, keeping him drunk and powerless.
She later has this power stripped from her when the Wizard Shazam reclaims all the powers he has provided, leaving Billy and Adam powerless as well.
She and you
She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.
`` She doesn't want you now.
She said, `` Do you think you'll miss school ''??
She wants to pay you a visit.
She says the children miss you.
She said, `` My dear, do you know what Kent House is ''??
`` She wants you and Barbara to have dinner with her tomorrow night ''.
She concluded by asking for a brief interview -- `` to settle with you where '' -- and she threw in a tribute to his `` gentle manners '' and `` the wild originality of your countenance ''.
She would sometimes even get a little hard on you, she took you so seriously.
She was standing on a flat rock three feet above ground and when she saw him she rose to full height and roared, opening her mouth wide, lashing her tail, and stamping at the rock with both forefeet in irritation, as much as to say: `` How dare you disturb me in my sacred precinct ''??
She musta been walking in her sleep -- you seen her yourself in here ''.
She lost her beau to you ''.
She opened it an inch and poked out the keys for me to give you.
She come to the kitchen and say she take it up to you ''.
She is the most beautiful thing you ever laid eyes on, and her dancing has a feminine suavity, lightness, sparkle, and refinement which are simply incomparable.
She said, `` Well, those are the really interesting things, but if you don't like any of those I can turn over some of my extra typing jobs to you, if you think you can type well enough ''.
`` She was mighty good to you past times, an' this'll fetch her ''.
She said gently, `` Of course I remember you ''.
She said, `` There is nothing that concerns you here.
She called him `` Stuck-up -- that's why nobody plays with you, Mister Stuck-up ''.
She didn't have a bad shape when you caught her at the pool at Longue Vue, but her bathing suits were far from smart.
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