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she and impressed
I realized, now, that she had been showing me, in what impressed me as being a very accurate way, something her mother had once said to her ; ;
The queen herself was an avid reader of all of George Eliot's novels, being so impressed with Adam Bede that she commissioned the artist Edward Henry Corbould to paint scenes from the book.
She witnessed inoculation being practiced by physicians in Istanbul, and was greatly impressed: she had lost a brother to smallpox and bore facial scars from the disease herself.
I was always impressed not only by the grace she displayed in public at all times, but by the wisdom she showed in private conversation.
According to Lee, " Benny's then-fiancée, Lady Alice Duckworth, came into The Buttery, and she was very impressed.
Robyn's performances impressed Meja so much so that she contacted her management and a meeting was arranged with Robyn and her parents.
Frakes cast Krige after finding that she had all of the mentioned qualities, and being impressed by her performance in Ghost Story ; the director considers her the sexiest Star Trek villain of all time.
Mary, however, is not impressed and instead remains focused on her ambition to become a partner at the wedding company she works for.
During this period, she ruled the Netherlands on her father's behalf and was so impressed with Boleyn that she offered his daughter Anne a place in her household.
A then-unknown Anastacia finished in third place, but so impressed Lopes and the show's three judges, that she too scored a record deal.
Davis's grandson was impressed that she was the subject of a hit song and Davis considered it a compliment, writing to both Carnes and the songwriters, and accepting the gift of gold and platinum records from Carnes, and hanging them on her wall.
Director Henry King was impressed by her screen test as Bernadette Soubirous for The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ) and she won the coveted role over hundreds of applicants.
Immediately after her wedding, she journeyed with her stepdaughter Mary through Flanders, Brabant and Hainaut, visiting the great towns: Ursel, Ghent, Dendermonde, Asse, Brussels, Oudenaarde and Kortrijk were all impressed by her intelligence and capability.
Spielberg felt Drew Barrymore had the right imagination for mischievous young Gertie after she impressed him with a story that she led a punk rock band.
Leachman wanted the role and Bogdanovich was impressed enough with her read-through to offer the part she wanted for a performance that ultimately earned her an Oscar.
While the Doctor argues that a Time Lord is more than simply genetics, he is impressed by the superhuman abilities she displays, and intelligence on par with his own.
Most versions of the story say that Hippolyta was so impressed with Heracles that she gave him the girdle without argument, perhaps while visiting him on his ship.
She is so impressed, she tells Julian Shellhammer ( Philip Tonge ), head of the toy department, that she will become a loyal customer.
When she heard the group perform, she was suitably impressed and handed over $ 300 to help out.

she and me
Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??
Mrs. Roebuck very kindly let me drive through Sante Fe to a road which would, she said, lead us to Taos and then Raton and `` eventshahleh '' out of New Mexico.
`` You may have seen me on TV '', she said.
There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.
True, she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me only by marriage, but why she had married a man twice her age, and more, perhaps, I did not know or much care.
And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.
I felt that her eyes were undressing me as if she were a painter and I a nude model.
I was waiting in front of it when she showed up and told me of my Uncle's indisposition.
Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.
I bent and kissed the still pink neck and suddenly she jumped up, and her two arms encircled me in a bear-like crush.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Though I had a great dread of the island and felt I would never leave it alive, I eagerly wrote down everything she told me about its women.
' And would you believe it ', Vic added, ' she likes him better than she does me.
When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.
`` You do not know me '', she said in good English, `` but my mother was your governess in Philadelphia when you were a child ''.
Esther, mistaking my hesitation, assured me that the hospital expense would be taken care of by a leading merchant in Strasbourg whom she had already approached.
And Lilly allowed me to help so that she could have her few little hours of escape.

she and instantly
The Schoolmaster ran out, but she was dead instantly.
Eddie, who is engaged to Hank, arrives and sees Queenie for the first time since she was a girl and is instantly taken with her.
While she waits for Joe to be released from military prison, she hangs around Billy Pastor's jive cafe where she encounters boxer Husky Miller, who is instantly besotted with Carmen, calling her " heatwave ".
Artemis, however, had instantly switched Iphigenia, as she lay upon the altar, with another deer without anyone noticing, and had taken her to distant Colchis, there to be her priestess.
Guybrush also encounters the governor and is instantly smitten, and she soon reciprocates.
After sleeping with him she put a magical love spot on his forehead ; any woman that looked at the love spot fell instantly in love with him.
" Upon reporting back to her brother, she told him she had " found a young girl, a greek maid, very beautiful, pure and dainty, eloquent as well, the daughter of a philosopher ," and young Theodosius who was full of desire and lust fell in love instantly.
When Lancelot arrives later, she is instantly smitten, and they soon consummate the adultery that will bring about Arthur's fall.
Whitman returned to his home at 906 Jewell Street and stabbed his wife Kathy three times in the heart as she slept, killing her instantly before covering her body with sheets.
Killed instantly by a stab wound to the chest as she slept.
When Alyson's firefighter Father had rescued Connor from a fire at Life Cycles, and she instantly took a liking to him, and the feeling becomes mutual.
Helene was a pious, quiet young woman, and she and Franz Joseph felt ill at ease in each other's company, but Franz Joseph was instantly infatuated with Elisabeth.
The ships cook, Cookie is instantly taken by Miranda's beauty and falls in love with her, a love he thinks she returns.
She pleaded for him to leave the sport but wasn't able to convince him to do so, and one night before he boxed Salvador Ugalde, she grabbed a rifle and shot herself, dying instantly.
After she apologizes to Kenny, the spell is instantly broken and she becomes regular size again.
" It was instantly clear to me that from now on I would be a photographer ", she wrote.
In W. G. Sebald's novel Vertigo ( 1990 ), a woman appears whom the narrator, travelling through Heidelberg by train in 1987, recognises instantly " without a shadow of a doubt " as Elizabeth when she enters his carriage.
Bolan was killed instantly, while Jones suffered a broken arm and broken jaw and spent time in hospital ; she did not learn of Bolan's death until the day of his funeral.
She finds an old house in the small seaside resort of Dillmouth, in Devon, which instantly appeals to her, and she buys it.
She obtained honorary positions instantly in 1933 and early 1934, was promoted to her first salaried position ( leader of Untergau ) in June 1935 and was appointed Reichsreferentin for the BDM ( head of the BDM ) in November 1937, at the age of 27, keeping this position even until the German defeat, when she had reached the age of 34.

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