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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 only
She had touched her face
, truly a noble
and pure face
, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual
.
She said
, with
the solicitude
of a middle-aged woman
for her
only child
.
She has shared her husband's greatness
, but
only within
the confines
of their home ; ;
She is not
only a trained mathematician
and Classicist
, but a good architect
.
She was a living doll
and no mistake
-- the blue-black bang
, the wide cheekbones
, olive-flushed
, that betrayed
the Cherokee strain in her Midwestern lineage
, and the mouth whose
only fault
, in
the novelist's carping phrase
, was that
the lower lip
was a trifle too voluptuous
.
She had quarreled with Lucien
, she had resisted his demands
for money
-- and if she died
, by
the provisions
of her marriage contract
, Lucien
would inherit legally not
only the immediate sum
of gold under
the floorboards in
the office
, but later
, when
the war
was over
, her father's entire estate
.
She paused at
the kitchen door
, caught her breath
, told herself firmly that
the opium
was only an attempt to frighten her
and went into
the kitchen
, where Glendora
was eyeing
the chickens dismally
and Maude
was cleaning lamp chimneys
.
She found this a marvel because
, as she said
, only six per cent
of English people are churchgoers
.
She was only ten months older than he
.
She didn't
want to be
the only one with a stove in her room
, especially as her life span
was nearly run out anyway
, and she insisted that Hope have
the heater
.
She had come to make her peace with
the past
, and of that past this ancient
of the earth
was only a
kind of shadow
.
She glanced at
the man nodding beside her
, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks
, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all
the droughts he had seen
, reflecting
the sky
and the drought which must follow now in August
-- yes
, with eyes predicting
the drought
and here it
was only June
, only festival time again
and thoughts
of Gratt Shafer
would not leave her
.
She felt
, and said
, that sympathy
only made people feel sorry
for themselves ; ;
She convinced him that he ought to be a member
of some
of the small tea-drinking parties she held at her rooms
and in
the end he complied with her wishes
, although it
was only rarely that he added anything to
the random conversations
.
She is also
the only one in Poirot's universe to have noted that " It ’ s not natural
for five or six people to be on
the spot when B is murdered
and all have a motive
for killing B
.
She is one
of a few characters who played a major part in
the original cause
of the Trojan War itself
: not
only did she offer Helen
of Troy to Paris
, but
the abduction
was accomplished when Paris
, seeing Helen
for the first time
, was inflamed with desire to have her — which is Aphrodite's realm
.
She has
only the ability to create a soulless body
, and thus she is “ persuaded to undertake
the journey to heaven to ask
for a soul ,”
and “
the Seven Liberal Arts produce a chariot
for her ...
the Five Senses are
the horses ”.
She also
was a stepmother to Claudia Antonia
, Claudius ' daughter
and only child from his second marriage to Aelia Paetina
, and to
the young Claudia Octavia
and Britannicus
, Claudius ' children with Valeria Messalina
.
She was only the third Roman woman ( Livia Drusilla
and Antonia Minor received this title )
and only the second living Roman woman (
the first being Antonia ) to receive this title
.
She proposes that Kant's first two premises
only entail that we must try to achieve
the perfect good
, not that it is actually attainable
.
She stayed
for two years
, winning a good-conduct medal in December 1836
, and returning home
only during Christmas
and summer holidays
.
She was the only character created at
the request
of MTV
, who wanted a female character who could tolerate
and handle
the duo
.
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