In legend, a banshee is a fairy woman who begins to wail if someone is about to die.

In a storyline that begins prior to the timeline of the movie, Jade Fox is denied entry to the Wudang monastery because she is a woman.

She begins by claiming that her opponent was an “ expert in rhetoric ” as compared to herself “ a woman ignorant of subtle understanding and agile sentiment .” In this particular apologetic response, de Pizan belittles her own style.

Ross begins dating an English woman named Emily ( Helen Baxendale ), and the season finale features their wedding in London.

" With her kitchen knife the woman then pierces and slices open the hood of the clitoris and then begins to cut it out.

The Rabbis conflated ordinary niddah with this extended menstrual period, known in the Torah as zavah, and mandated that a woman may not have sexual intercourse with her husband from the time she begins her menstrual flow until seven days after it ends.

A few months before the play begins, Fredrik married a beautiful woman who at 18 years old was much younger than he.

For example, a young woman is convinced that the spirit of her dead husband has possessed the family dog, and after some soul-searching, begins a sexual relationship with the dog.

* Celia Fiennes noble woman and traveller, begins her journeys across Britain, in a venture that would prove to be her life's work.

As the story begins, Dolores Claiborne is in a police interrogation and wants to make clear to the police that she did not kill her wealthy employer, an elderly woman named Vera Donovan whom she has looked after for years.

The story is about a woman who accidentally kills her husband while she is handcuffed to the bed as part of a bondage game, and, following the subsequent realisation that she is trapped with little hope of rescue, begins to let the voices inside her head take over.

Richie then murders a woman at a traffic stop and steals her car, and then begins heading off into Brooklyn alongside his goons, who are horrified by what he does but continue to work alongside him.

The film begins with an overhead view of a man and woman picnicking in a park at the Chicago lakefront — a one-meter-square overhead image of the figures on a blanket surrounded by food and books they brought with them, one of them being The Voices of Time and Other Short Stories by J. G. Ballard.

" ( referring to the earlier spat with his one-night stand when Shaft asked the woman to close the door on the way out, a remark Vic overheard and teases him with ), howling in mockingly laughter and walking away as the closing credits begins to roll.

Claudia takes to killing people easily, but over time, she grows tired of her eternal childhood and begins to realize she can never grow up ; her mind matures into that of an intelligent, assertive woman, but her body remains that of a five-year-old girl.

The poem begins by using the conventions of the Aisling, or vision poem, in which the poet is out walking when he has a vision of a woman from the other world.

An emotional woman who is at the center of a love triangle between Boone and Chalmers, she begins as head of the Russian contingent.

As if this weren't enough, a creepy woman ( Ricki Lake ) shows up with a fan letter for Honor, and another kooky lady, Imogene ( Sandra Bernhard ), begins heavily, openly pursuing Monkey's attention.

As they drive through it, Adam begins recounting the way the Church leaders terrorized the children into fearing sex by forcing them to watch every time a woman went into labor.

From the third millennium BC, when Bastet begins to appear in our record, she is depicted as either a fierce lioness or a woman with the head of a lion.

The film begins with Alfie Elkins ( Caine ) ending a relationship with a married woman ( Millicent Martin ) and getting the woman from another of his affairs, Gilda ( Julia Foster ), pregnant.

The Third Dynasty of Kish is unique in that it begins with a woman, previously a tavern keeper, Kubau, as " king ".

One woman begins to discuss his late nights spent standing in the garden looking up at the sky.

He hadn't shown up too well in their eyes, letting himself be browbeaten by a woman.

Though the slave's dying words about the woman troubled the coroner's panel, Dandy's accusation was adjudged an aberration by the jury and disregarded.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

Fosdick had found the installations surrounded by a battery of saloons and houses of prostitution, with filles de joie from all over the country flocking to San Antonio, Laredo, and El Paso to `` woman the cribs ''.

Though this sculpture must take place thirty-three years after her moment of decision, he could not conceive of her as a woman in her mid-fifties, old, wrinkled, broken in body and face by labor or worry.

The thought of this lonely woman sitting at her window touched him, although he was even more touched by her plumpness.

Ejaculated the surprised woman, looking at Alex for an explanation but he, parting from her without ceremony, only offered a few words about the doctor's provincial American speech and a state of nerves brought on by the demands of his work.

Another specimen of such double-entendre is illustrated by a woman in a department store.

Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.

Extensive observations by physicians during vaginal examinations have established the fact that a single finger inserted along the anterior wall ( the top line of the vagina as the woman lies on her back ) may cause a great deal of distress in a virgin.

Mr. A., her fellow townsman, also experienced a nervous breakdown just as soon as he discovered that he had been bilked of his life savings by the limited practitioner who had been treating his wife -- a woman suffering from an incurable disease, multiple sclerosis -- and himself.

I feel a certain loss of status when I am driven up in front of work in a car driven by my wife, who is only a woman.

Linda accepted the reproach, which was something she did rarely in all her life and most rarely in that summer of 1936 when she was by all odds the prettiest and brightest young woman west of the Allegheny Mountains, and John was surely one of the handsomer and brighter young men around Pittsburgh.

Roman gladiatorial games often referenced classical mythology, and this seems to reference Achilles ' fight with Penthesilea but gives it an extra twist of Achilles ' being " played " by a woman.

* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

Alex quells the rebellion by slashing Dim's hand and fighting with Georgie, then in a show of generosity takes them to a bar, where Alex insists on following through on Georgie's idea to burgle the home of a wealthy old woman.

Aphrodite figures as a secondary character in the Tale of Eros and Psyche, which first appeared as a digressive story told by an old woman in Lucius Apuleius ' novel, The Golden Ass, written in the second century AD.

On March 30, 2010, a spokesman for the Egyptian Culture Ministry claimed it had unearthed a large red granite door in Luxor with inscriptions by User, a powerful adviser to the 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut who ruled between 1479 BC and 1458 BC, the longest of any woman.

Hesiod describes Alcmene as the tallest, most beautiful woman with wisdom surpassed by no person born of mortal parents.

A popular legend, originating from 12th century chronicles, tells how when he first fled to the Somerset Levels, Alfred was given shelter by a peasant woman who, unaware of his identity, left him to watch some cakes she had left cooking on the fire.

* 1964 – Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to circumnavigate the world by air.

The significance of receiving Unction on Holy Wednesday is shored up by the hymns in the Triodion for that day, which speak of the sinful woman who anointed the feet of Christ ().