`` Um '', said the old lady, and brought her eyes down to the tray.

When they walked into the Ferraro apartment, the old lady, bowing and smiling, said softly.

Nodding approvingly and swelling with importance, the old lady whispered confidentially.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.

She presented the character as a bold and eccentric old lady, different from the prim and birdlike character Christie created in her novels.

" President Clinton called them " Beamis and Bum-head " in one episode, as well as in the movie, where an old lady consistently calls them " Travis " and " Bob-head.

Two particular examples are Lillian, an eccentric ( and very nearsighted ) old lady with odd quirks, and Greta, a muscle bound woman who was hired to look after the pets during New Years.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a soldier who, as an old man, produced the most comprehensive of the eye-witness accounts, the Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España (" True Story of the Conquest of New Spain "), speaks repeatedly and reverentially of the " great lady " Doña Marina ( always using the honorific title, " Doña ").

For example, helping an old lady across the road ( good exterior act ) to impress someone ( bad interior act ) is wrong.

The main villain in the game is a wrinkly old lady named Sharpei, a pun on the dog Shar Pei, a wrinkly dog.

Ross famously declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: " It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque.

In the 1955 general election an old lady left her house in Shetland to vote Conservative but on returning to her house for her purse saw her father's photograph of Gladstone and instead went to the vote for the Liberal candidate, Jo Grimond.

The bishop's report to the king as regards Philippa ( who was about eight years old at that time ) reads in part: " The lady ..... has not uncomely hair, betwixt blue-black and brown.

In one episode of the 1960s television series, Lurch's mother, played by actress Ellen Corby, came to visit ; she was a short, overbearing little old lady.

However, after an old lady fell through a railing into one of the pits and had a heart attack, the place was shut down indefinitely.

When they get to the house, Pinocchio recognizes the lady as the Blue-haired Fairy, now miraculously old enough to be his mother.

It was here that Demeter, disguised as an old lady who was abducted by pirates in Crete, came to an old well where the four daughters of the local king Keleos and his queen Metaneira ( Kallidike, Kleisidike, Demo and Kallithoe ) found her and took her to their palace to nurse the son of Keleos and Metaneira, Demophoon.

Gradually, their relationship is tolerated, not out of real acceptance, but because those around the good-hearted old lady realize their ability to exploit her is threatened.

On the way to Marathon, Theseus sought shelter from a storm in the shack owned by an old lady named Hecale.

Henry, old, corpulent, sick and lonely, takes to the mature twice-widowed lady ; her honesty and calmness entice him.

Apart from two of the jurors swapping names while leaving the courthouse, no names are used in the film: the defendant is referred to as " the boy " and the witnesses as the " old man " and " the lady across the street ".

::" I took the title from a passage in Paradise Lost where Adam says to Eve that their expulsion from Paradise " will prove no sudden but a slow pac ’ d evil ,/ A Long Day ’ s Dying to augment our pain ," and with the exception of the old lady Maroo, what all the characters seem to be dying of is loneliness, emptiness, sterility, and such preoccupation with themselves and their own problems that they are unable to communicate with each other about anything that really matters to them very much.

Gardner Fox is referenced in the story, it is claimed by Barry Allen that the reason there were comics about the old Flash in his world was due to a psychic link between worlds.

Sophia Hapgood, an old co-worker of Indiana Jones who gave up her archaeological career to become a psychic, supports him along the journey.

Another pocket of the coat holds an old magazine containing an article about an expedition on which Indiana collaborated with Sophia Hapgood, who has since given up archeology to become a psychic.

In memoirs written when he was eighteen years old, Krishnamurti described psychic experiences, such as " seeing " his sister, who had died in 1904, and his mother, who had died in 1905.

Here she seems to fill the function of Gabrielle Haller, an old lover of Charles and mother of his son, the powerful but disturbed psychic boy David.

While riding in the ruins of old Tokyo, Tetsuo Shima, a member of the bosozoku Capsule gang led by Shotaro Kaneda, is injured when his bike explodes after the " Esper " Takashi — a psychic child with wizened features — blocks his path.

Mrs. Pollifax meets some other interesting characters, including a psychic, and another old friend who is a reformed cat burglar while in pursuit of the truth about Feng Imports.

The story involves a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler ( Barbara Harris ), and her con artist taxi driver boyfriend, George Lumley ( Bruce Dern ), who attempt to locate the nephew of a wealthy and guiltridden old woman, Julia Rainbird ( Cathleen Nesbitt ).

* In his self-imposed psychic isolation, Benson responds coldly to sympathy from an old friend ; while not reckless, he does not fear death, since it will re-unite him with his wife and daughter.

Danny finds out that the Overlook Hotel is haunted from cook Dick Hallorann, who is also psychic ( in fact, it is he who coins the term " the shining " to describe the powers he and the boy possess ) and who teaches Danny to use his gift to defend himself and his family from the evil forces at work in the old building.

The old man beckoned with one finger and Clayton went forward to him.

He was in earnest conversation with her father and the old vaquero, Luis Hernandez.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

Lacking the pioneer spirit necessary to write of a new economy, these writers seem to be contenting themselves with an old one that is now as defunct as Confederate money.

It is clear that, while most writers enjoy picturing the Negro as a woolly-headed, humble old agrarian who mutters `` yassuhs '' and `` sho' nufs '' with blissful deference to his white employer ( or, in Old South terms, `` massuh '' ), this stereotype is doomed to become in reality as obsolete as Caldwell's Lester.

Only what else was she singing but the old Song of Songs, that most ancient of tunes that nature plays with such unfailing response upon young nerves??

Arlen, too, worked on other projects at the same time with old friend Ted Koehler.

Sherman could never be accused of sticking too long with the old.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

Criticism is as old as literary art and we can set the stage for our study of three moderns if we see how certain critics in the past have dealt with the ethical aspects of literature.

Goethe believed that the Germanic spirit, with its grave strength but flagrant streaks of brutality and intolerance, should be tempered with the old sensuous wisdom and humanism of the Hellenic.

In his second letter the old mercer advised his son `` to bye some such warys as yow may selle presentlye with profet.

His mother Bess, who could not write herself, reminded her husband through Sturley to buy the apron he had promised her and `` a suite of hattes for 5 boies the yongst lined & trimmed with silke '' ( for John, only a year old ).

I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

Two or three times, C. C. Burlingham came to lunch with us in Weston, that wonderful man who lived to be more than a hundred years old and whose birthplace had been my Wall Street suburb.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

If the party of Adenauer and Erhart, with 45 per cent of the vote, approaches the party of Willy Brandt, which won 36 per cent, the result would be a stiffening of the old resolve.

the old woman with the stew.

If he can't play with Mommy's magazines, he should have some old numbers of his own.

More often than not, as the Old Grad wanders along the old paths, his memory of happy days when he strolled one of the paths with a coed beside him becomes an ache and a pain.

It is not much better if he meets with old classmates.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.