As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.

The woman eyed the youth with the avidity a coin collector might display toward a rare doubloon which is not yet in his collection.

One is so accustomed to think of men as the privileged who need but ask and receive, and women as submissive and yielding, that our sympathies are usually enlisted on the side of the man whose love is not returned, and we condemn the woman as a coquette.

usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.

It is harder, he muttered, to meditate on man ( or woman ) than on God.

Membership is open to any woman student in the College.

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

In I knew you when you were a child, and you were pretty then dominant stress on then implies that the young woman spoken to is still pretty.

The accumulated information on this point shows that first intercourse, even when it is achieved with minimum pain or difficulty, is seldom an overwhelming sexual experience to a woman.

Such understanding helps to explain why one matron celebrating thirty-five years of married life could declare with some pride that her husband had `` never seen her entirely naked '', while another woman, boasting an equal number of years of married life, is proud of having `` shared the nudist way of life -- the really free, natural nude life -- for most of that period ''.

According to Dr. Ellis, the average 20-year-old American woman is capable of far greater sexual arousal than her partner.

It is possible that Morse told the woman it was 11:20, but it could have been earlier, since she did serve dinner on time.

On the other side of the ledger is the fact that he did see his niece and the woman with whom she was staying.

Mrs. Hosaka is one of the Japanese women one reads about -- beautiful, artistically talented, an artful manager of her big household -- ( four boys and four girls ), and yet looking like a pampered, gentle Japanese woman.

He is the sort who, with an appraising eye, would cross the street to help a strange woman on to a bus and then pinch her.

The pert, gray-haired woman who came to Denver three years ago from Buffalo, N.Y., is a `` civilian '' with the Army.

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.

Her invitation from Premier Joseph Smallwood is reported to be the only one extended to a woman.

Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' is a problem piece about a man and a woman and the three `` figures '' that bother them somehow.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

One of the most appealing of the rooftop canvases is `` Sun And Wind On The Roof '', with a woman and child bracing themselves against flapping clothes and flying birds.

You feel where he is and what he sees, and at night you feel when he is asleep or with the other woman, the one that never could love him the way you do, the one who got him because she didn't particularly give a damn whether she got him or didn't.

* January 16 — Octavia Ritchie, first woman to receive a medical degree in Quebec

In 1909 she met Octavia Wilberforce, a young woman whose fervent desire to study medicine was thwarted by a family that felt intellectualism and professional careers were ' unsexing ' for women.

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.

Based on the testimony of John Malalas and the Epitome de Caesaribus that Gallienus was about 50 years old at the time of his death, it is generally considered he was born around 218, son of Valerian and Mariniana, a woman possibly of senatorial rank and possibly a daughter of Egnatius Victor Marinianus, and brother of Valerianus Minor.

Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.

Antonia Minor was a very influential woman and supervised her circle of various princes and princesses.

Antonia Minor was a very influential woman and supervised her circle of various princes and princesses.

On this map Ursa Minor is an old woman and three maidens, Draco is four camels and Cepheus was illustrated as a shepherd with sheep and dog.

Minor characters of note include Madame Berthe Trepat, a composer who mistakes Horacio's attention for sexual interest, and a homeless woman named Emmanuele whom Oliveira has a brief, disastrous tryst with shortly after La Maga's disappearance.

Virginia Minor, a leader of the women's suffrage movement in Missouri, attempted to register to vote on October 15, 1872, in St. Louis County, Missouri, but was refused on the grounds that she was a woman.

Matidia Minor was a noble Roman woman, a distant cousin and sister-in-law of Emperor Hadrian.

Quint argues that Cleopatra ( not Antony ) fulfils Virgil's Dido archetype ; " woman is subordinated as is generally the case in The Aeneid, excluded from power and the process of Empire-building: this exclusion is evident in the poem's fiction where Creusa disappears and Dido is abandoned ... woman's place or displacement is therefore in the East, and epic features a series of oriental heroines whose seductions are potentially more perilous than Eastern arms ", i. e., Cleopatra.

In Greek mythology, Oenone (; Greek: Oinōnē-Οἰνώνη " wine woman ") was the first wife of Paris of Troy, whom he abandoned for the queen Helen of Sparta.

There are stories of ' The Blue Lady ', a woman abandoned by her husband who's ghost still haunts the mountains, and more recently the idea of a wild cat living in the Mournes.

According to an ancient legend of the Greshams, the founder of the family, Roger de Gresham, was a foundling abandoned as a new-born baby in long grass in North Norfolk in the 13th century and found there by a woman whose attention was drawn to the child by a grasshopper.

The novel Nuntă în cer depicts the correspondence between two male friends, an artist and a common man, who complain to each other about their failures in love: the former complains about a lover who wanted his children when he did not, while the other recalls being abandoned by a woman who, despite his intentions, did not want to become pregnant by him.

In some chivalric romances, such as Le Fresne and the Swan-Children, in the variant Beatrix, some children of a multiple birth are abandoned after the heroine has taunted another woman with a claim that such a birth is proof of adultery and then suffered such a birth of her own.

Libraries of nonsense have been written about them ... A woman who planned to write a book entitled Lies about the Rothschilds abandoned it, saying: ' It was relatively easy to spot the lies, but it proved impossible to find out the truth '".

In 1767 he gained great repute by his defence of a Protestant woman who, as a result of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, had been abandoned by her Catholic husband.

Told from Foster ’ s point of view and based on the real life of Eliza Whitman, this epistolary novel is about a woman who is seduced and abandoned.

The story of Thomas Sutpen's legacy ends with Quentin taking Rosa back to the seemingly abandoned Sutpen ’ s Hundred plantation, where they find Henry Sutpen and Clytie, herself the daughter of Thomas Sutpen by a slave woman.

A year later, like many other enterprising young men of the time, Boydell resolved to sail to the East Indies in hopes of making his fortune, but he abandoned the scheme in favour of returning to Flintshire and Elizabeth Lloyd, the woman he was courting.

The book chronicled the life of a Chinese woman, her married life as well as her lonely struggle when she was abandoned by her husband.

* Lorena Wood — A kind-hearted young woman who was forced into prostitution by her lover, she was then abandoned in Lonesome Dove.

It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.

She lives in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, as a disgraced woman, supposedly abandoned by a French naval officer named Varguennes — married, unknown to her, to another woman — with whom she had supposedly had an affair and who had returned to France.

A woman is found in an abandoned village – she is shot.

Although Paul still played the violin on occasion, when he did “ even Zilla was silent as the lonely man who lost his way … spun out his dark soul in music .” Even though Babbitt and Paul abandoned their former goals and ideals, Babbitt still dreams of a “ fairy child .” She is an imaginary woman, full of life and gaiety, who does not see him as a stogy old businessman, but a “ gallant youth .” He imagines various women as his fairy child, including his secretary, a manicurist, his son ’ s girlfriend Eunice Littlefield, and finally Tanis Judique.

Initially heralded as the dawning of " a new era for woman and through her for the whole human race ," the Freiburg method was eventually abandoned due to negative side effects.

* 07 Apr 1994: A Protestant woman was found dead at the back of an abandoned house on Donegall Avenue, Belfast.

Farfrae does not realize he is competing with Henchard for Lucetta's attention, or that Lucetta is the woman his former boss wooed, abandoned, and is trying to reclaim.

Otto played Ronnie, a pregnant woman recently abandoned by her boyfriend.

Obviously abandoned, Queen is taken under the wing of Doris, a woman from the church where she and Davis met.