He had known women like that, one woman in particular.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

But a glance at Songau and the other women confirmed what Brassnose had blurted out.

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.

But in the middle of the last century an island woman named `` Karipo '' seized a spear in the heat of an inter-tribal battle and rallied the women after their men had fled.

Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

Lithe and muscular, he had well-molded features, and his light color told of the European ancestors who had been intimate with the slave women of his family.

She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

This was one of the Irish women who had built their own huts down near the river.

but he had sketched the women of Tuscany in their fields and homes.

How many women had longed for the privilege that was hers.

The attempt had failed because, when endeavoring to cut his wrists, this murderer of seven women had fainted at the sight of blood.

The husbands of these women and others I had met in Catatonia were distinguished only in that they were, to me at least, indistinguishable.

It ranged from two women members who had experienced premarital pregnancy to one couple twelve years married and seemingly unable to conceive.

Palfrey had already made up his mind that he would allow the men, but not the women, to choose freely whether or not to go North for freedom.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.

Loki tells Iðunn to be silent, calling her the most " man-crazed " of all women, and saying that she placed her washed, bright arms around her brother's slayer.

* akhebay: loose bright green or blue cloth for women

His iconic music videos by Terence Donovan for the hits " Simply Irresistible " and " Addicted to Love " featured identically dressed dancing women with pale faces, dark eye makeup and bright red lipstick, which resembled the women in the art of Patrick Nagel, an artist popular in the 1980s.

The young single women are accustomed to dressing in Chinese dress of bright colors.

This is only true, however, of his many portraits of distinguished old men — his portraits of younger men, women and children, and his so-called " problem pictures ", covering scenes of ordinary life, are often very bright and fresh.

Young women prefer bright colors, while older women wear dark colors.

Among Modern Observant women who do cover their hair, the most common form of coverings include a hat or beret ; younger women often wear baseball caps and bandannas when dressed casually, and some wear bright and colorful scarves tied in a number of ways.

Stephen Sprouse's initial Day-Glo bright, sixties-inspired, graffiti-printed fashion collections for men and women caught the attention of fashion editors, store buyers, and fashionistas, garnering much media coverage.

The traditional suit of the women is of bright colors.

The Dalcassians were successful, plundering spoils of jewels, gold and silver, saddles, finding " soft, youthful, bright girls, booming silk-clad women and active well-formed boys ".

Cowen said the majority of trains were purchased by mothers for their children, and the bright colors attracted women buyers.

The bright pink and turquoise saris of Asian women offer chromatic relief from drab brick homes ".

Both men and women alike dress up in costumes that are bright and colorful.

The upper classes wore a variety of colors, though bright colors were generally worn by children and girls and subdued colors by middle-aged men and women.

In 1844 the Academy showed his " Pamphilius relating his Story " ( inspired by the Decameron ), which consisted of a meadow scene in bright light, with sumptuous women, richly clad, reclining on the grass.

It is unusual to see a gladiator depicted this way in a satire, as such fighters usually take the role of men who are " brawny, brutal, sexually successful with women of both high and low status, but especially the latter, ill-educated if not uneducated, and none too bright intellectually.

Guyamí men typically wear homemade bell bottom pants, straw hats and rubber boots, while women wear full bright colored dresses with shoulder and neckline adornments and embroidered bands around the waist and bottom ; these are called naguas.

Nomadic Domba women typically wear bright blues and reds, with numerous thick bangles often covering the entire forearms and arms, a practice that can be seen across other ethnic groups from Rajasthan.

* The Garibaldi jacket or Garibaldi shirt were bright red woolen garments for women with black embroidery or braid and military details popular in the 1860s ; they are named after the Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi who visited England in 1863.

The concept was originally designed by two women who wanted to open a ' female friendly ' bar at a time when they found that most pubs and bars were intimidating places for single women to go and drink or eat, hence the huge glass frontage, the open plan space and the bright airy interiors.

* According to Luke, the women discover the tomb has been opened, and two men in shining garments come up to them and tell them not to be afraid since Jesus is risen.

Since Egyptian era, the women used to take baths in fermented wine in the aim of the skin becoming soft and shining.

Among all the women and the men, His Light is shining.

Yellen's most recent straight play is December Fools, a comedy-drama about a musical comedy composer's widow and her contentious daughter ; two women locked into the past who are struggling with each other in the present, produced by Abingdon Theatre Arts in New York, and in the same year, 2006, Josephine Tonight was produced by Theatre Building Chicago, a musical which The Chicago Sun-Times called a " shining new musical.