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she and could
No girl would go this far to fool a man so she could kill him.
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
If she did, he could stand it better in the light.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.
For a moment, she could not catch her breath and then, her breath returning in short, frightened spasms, she lifted herself to her feet laboriously.
Then, helpfully, as she merely stared at him in weary silence, `` Maybe you could write it down for me, huh??
He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.
And even with her limited knowledge of such things, she knew that the car could be repaired there ; ;
She wished that she could talk to her mother about it.
And now she could see him, looking uncommon handsome, standing there beside Sally Jackson and her folks in front of their trail-worn wagon.
And she was deeply thankful that she could see her now, out there in the midst of a gay, youthful circle, skipping and singing, `` Farmer in the dell, Farmer in the dell, Heigh-ho the dairy-oh, the farmer in the dell ''.
With a swift swoop of his big arms, he grabbed Sally out of the circle surrounding him, and then kissed her soundly before setting her down so she could stand by his side while they jointly chose the rest of their `` outfit ''.
`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.
As far as I was concerned, she had already and had dandily shown what she could do.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.
but if it had been, it had been smothered until now by fear ): you could tell it by the way she watched the older, bigger boys, like Jack.
Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
She could not resist the opportunity `` of showing her superiority in argument over a man '' which she had remarked as one of the `` feminine follies '' of Sara Sullam ; ;
nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

she and dust
The medical team protested that the dust from the powder was not good for his lungs, but she instructed the nurses on duty to follow her example later.
When she poured dust over her brother's body, Antigone completed the burial ritual and thus fulfilled her duty to him.
Richard Jebb suggests that the only reason for Antigone's return to the burial site is that the first time she forgot the Choaí ( libations ), and " perhaps the rite was considered completed only if the Choaí were poured while the dust still covered the corpse.
Although she appears as one of the series ' major villains, she is frequently a source of comic relief: In Magica's final scene in the series for example, she attempts to send Scrooge's " tin man back to OZ ", but is herself sent elsewhere in a whirlwind when a Quackenyeeken Yeeker bird yeeks in fear, causing her jar of magic dust to break open and carry her away.
That same year she drew criticism and praise from Tucsonans for commenting that the local city council's failings, developers ' strip mall mentality, greed and growing dust problem had rendered the city unrecognizable and poorly developed.
While in prison, Szenes used a mirror to flash signals out of the window to prisoners in other cells and communicated using large cut-out letters that she placed in her cell window one at a time and by drawing the Magen David in the dust.
In her animated form she leaves a trail of twinkling pixie dust.
She is trailed by small amounts of pixie dust when she moves, and this dust can help humans fly if they believe in happy thoughts.
That year, she also appeared in the final shot of the ending scene of Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, along with Porky Pig ; sprinkling fairy dust on the screen after Porky's trademark farewell as it goes black prior to the closing credits.
In the Disney versions she always uses " pixie dust ", rather than the fairy dust in the play.
Each storyteller would begin their story by saying " Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this story ..." at which point he or she would toss a handful of " midnight dust " ( in actuality, a non-dairy creamer ) from a leather pouch into a campfire to heighten the flames and produce an eerie white smoke.
Glinda discovers the deception right away and leads the pursuit of Mombi, who is finally caught as she tries to run across the Deadly Desert in the form of a fast-and long-running Griffin ( though later books state that anyone who touches the Desert is transformed into dust ).
By intermingling air with earth she can cause a dust storm, air with water a typhoon, and air with fire a firestorm.
** Nightingale / Gail ( Colleen O ' Shaughnessey ) – Generates and controls a special black smoke-like dust called dark matter that she uses to protect herself from intense light and as a cover screen for escapes.
The Islington Labour Parties were badly affected by the defection of members and elected public representatives to the Social Democratic Party but, when the dust had settled, Hodge had emerged as council leader, in 1982, a post which she held until 1992.
" before she and Rex are turned into dust.
Salem puts a snake in David's room, mixes haunted graveyard dirt in Grandpa's food, and, after talking to the dead Baron Samedi, pours goofer dust on Sarah while she sleeps.
Like Jimbo has to spiders, Rose has a deep fear of dust mites, derived from when she once saw a magnified image of one, and in her vivid imagination they tend to take on rather exaggerated proportions.
The next day she comes to a cottage, abandoned, covered in dust and cobwebs.
She went on to attack Hutton's writing style, calling the book " dry as dust " and claimed that she was " sorry I bothered to plough through it.

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