When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.

I myself was fond of him but what a young woman half his age saw in him was a mystery to me.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

His bold eyes raked the woman, and a perceptive spectator might sense that there was more to their relationship than that of slave to owner.

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.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

This showed that common sense had not died out at the county and village level -- though why the unhappy and obviously unbalanced woman was not restrained remains a puzzle.

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.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

He advised the poor woman not to appear in court as what she was charged with was not in violation of law.

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

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

Her brother Karl was a very gentle soul, her mother was a quiet woman who said little but who had hard, probing eyes.

He thought how this dainty, fragile older woman threading her way through the streets of Westminster on a day in June, enjoying the flowers in the shops, the greetings from old friends, but never really drawing a deep, passionate breath, was so like himself.

The only one who would have him was his cripple, the strange unhappy woman who became his wife.

Hera offered political power ; Athena promised skill in battle ; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta.

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

In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

* 1853 – Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a PhD ( d. 1944 )

Justin Martyr ( in his Apologies, and in a lost work against heresies, which Irenaeus used as his main source ) and Irenaeus ( Adversus Haereses ) record that after being cast out by the Apostles he came to Rome where, having joined to himself a profligate woman of the name of Helen, he gave out that it was he who appeared among the Jews as the Son, in Samaria as the Father and among other nations as the Holy Spirit.

One of these thirty leading men was a woman called Helen, and the first and most esteemed by John was Simon.

President David Jayne Hill allowed the first woman, Helen E. Wilkinson, to enroll as a normal student, although she was not allowed to matriculate or to pursue a degree.

Both are in relationships ; Sally has just started dating a man named Joe — who happens to be an old friend of Harry's — and Harry is engaged to a woman named Helen, which surprises Sally.

* April 15 – Helen Maksagak, Canadian, first Inuk and woman to be the Commissioner of both the Northwest Territories and Nunavut ( d. 2009 )

) Still, Paris could not decide, as all three were ideally beautiful, so the goddesses attempted to bribe him to choose among them-Hera offered ownership of all of Europe and Asia ; Athena offered skill in battle, wisdom and the abilities of the greatest warriors ; and Aphrodite offered the love of the most beautiful woman on Earth, Helen of Sparta.

Theseus pursuing a woman, probably Helen.

In Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis, Clytemnestra, Iphigenia's mother and Helen's sister, begs her husband to reconsider his decision, calling Helen a " wicked woman ".

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.

Helen was the most beautiful woman in the world, and when it was time for her to marry, many Greek kings and princes came to seek her hand or sent emissaries to do so on their behalf.

Philoctetes was one of the many eligible Greeks who competed for the hand of Helen, the Spartan princess ; according to legend, she was the most beautiful woman in the world.

The first woman appointed King's Counsel was Helen Alice Kinnear in Canada in 1934.

Helen Combs was the first woman county magistrate from district # 3 when her husband, magistrate J. W. Combs died and Combs ran for her own term.

After Mr. Jencke's two daughters E. Mialma and Helen R .-graduated from Wellesley College, one of them was always in the store because no woman customer would ever consider mentioning her personal needs to a male clerk.

Algonac was the birthplace of Emily Helen Butterfield, artist and first woman to be licensed as an architect in Michigan.

* Helen Richey, first woman pilot of a commercial airliner

* Helen Michaelis — renowned expert on Quarter Horses ; first woman inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame

In 1918, Helen Sewel Harbison became the first woman in Texas to cast a ballot, two years before the implementation of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Janos then falls in love with Helen ( Evelyn Keyes ) a blind woman who sees only the good in him, and attempts to leave his life of crime behind him.

Venus also became only the sixth woman in history to win the singles titles at both Wimbledon and the US Open in consecutive years, the others being Martina Navrátilová ( twice ), Steffi Graf ( twice ), Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly Brinker, and Helen Wills Moody ( twice ).