He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

The girl tapped the quirt impatiently against her knee and glared at him.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Silence walked at Pamela's side, its presence numbingly close, yet too far for her to hear.

bushes swished and scratched at her slacks ; ;

He waited at the car side for a moment, looking down at her expectantly.

He slid in at her side, tucked a cigar into his mouth, and politely proffered one to her.

Conchita nagged at the younger children, attempting without success to keep her thoughts off Tom Brannon.

The two tall brothers waited silently while their mother handed Gran her cold snack and water jug, placed the chamber pot beside her feet, and returned to her place at the front of the wagon with Alice.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

But I promised Joyce I would mention her name, if at all, only as a last resort.

When Sarah was young her mother sent her to Grandchamp, an Augustine convent school near Versailles In 1860 she began attending The Conservatoire de Musique at Déclemation in Paris and eventually became a student at the Comédie Française where she would have her acting debut ( August 11, 1862 ) in the title role of Racine's Iphigénie to lackluster reviews.

Before reaching Versailles, she also met her future brothers-in-law, Louis Stanislas Xavier, comte de Provence ; and Charles Philippe, comte d ' Artois, who came to play important roles during and after her life.

She was expected by tradition to spend money on her attire, so as to outshine other women at Court, being the leading example of fashion in Versailles ( the previous queen, Maria Leszczyńska, had died in 1768, two years prior to Marie Antoinette's arrival ).

She was given free rein to renovate the Petit Trianon, a small château on the grounds of Versailles, which was given to her as a gift by Louis XVI on 15 August 1774 ; she concentrated mainly on horticulture, redesigning the garden in the English fashion, which in the previous reign had been an arboretum of introduced species, and adding flowers.

The duchesse left for England in May, leaving her children behind in Versailles.

The queen, however, was present with her daughter, Marie-Therese, when Tippu Sahib of Mysore visited Versailles seeking help against the British.

Among the things she was accused of ( most, if not all, of the accusations were untrue and probably lifted from rumours begun by libelles ) were orchestrating orgies in Versailles, sending millions of livres of treasury money to Austria, plotting to kill the Duke of Orléans, incest with her son, declaring her son to be the new king of France, and orchestrating the massacre of the Swiss Guards in 1792.

At 6 pm, as night had fallen on a cold Versailles covered in snow, the king, who was visiting his daughter, left her apartments to return to the Trianon where he was staying.

She appeared in the French film Royal Affairs in Versailles, one of only two films she made in her native country, and a success at the local box-office.

During the French Revolution, when the Palace of Versailles was stormed by revolutionaries in 1789, Marie Antoinette instructed her maid or a lady-in-waiting to take her prized possessions and flee.

Through the royal connections she would have had during her service to the queen at Versailles, she managed to contract the French navy to help construct the famed ' pit ' on the island.

Comedian Donna Jean Young, whose career was built upon her material related to East McKeesport and " Woolmerding " ( as she pronounced and spelled Wilmerding in her act ), was a resident of Broadway Extension, Arlington Plan, North Versailles Township.

In her youth, portions of North Versailles used East McKeesport as a postal address and were long associated with this community.

She later attended Versailles Conservatoire, where she won a prize for her acting.

Her importance was such that she was even approached in 1755 by Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, a prominent Austrian diplomat, asking her to intervene in the negotiations which led to the Treaty of Versailles.

Because of this, Jean du Barry saw her as a means of influence with Louis XV, who became aware of her in 1768 while she was on an errand at Versailles.

Her official sponsor, Madame de Béarn, presented her to the Court at Versailles on 22 April 1769.

The hostess herself had gained a European reputation even before her journey to Poland, and to dine with Madame Geoffrin was by some people considered almost as great an honor as being presented at Versailles.

Just no spot, not even a dimesize spot, on her whole body that wasn't bruised, bruise on top of bruise, from beatings.

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.

Jones had been about a hundred and fifty feet from her when he first broke through to the top of the Reef.

It was dark inside the room but enough light spilled from the restaurant behind her to enable her to make out a round table with a green cloth top.

Maude swooped up the cup and hiked up her top hoop as if about to take off with a racing start.

Toying with her field in the early stages, Garden Fresh was asked for top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip Grimm and won by a length and a half in 1.24 3-5 for the 7 furlongs.

Though the subject -- segregation in her native South -- has been thoroughly worked, Miss McCullers uses her poet's instinct and storyteller's skill to reaffirm her place at the very top of modern American writing.

He had never heard so many bells, and as he lay there listening, he thought of her scolding him for his remarks when he had looked up at the obelisk and the church at the top of the Spanish Steps.

Another Kiowa beadworker, Teri Greeves has won top honors for her beadwork, which consciously integrates both traditional and contemporary motifs, such as beaded dancers on Converse high-tops.

Jamie Okuma ( Luiseño-Shoshone-Bannock ) was won top awards with her beaded dolls, which can include entire families or horses and riders, all with fully beaded regalia.

He took a special interest in Morisot, as is evident from his warm portrayal of her in several paintings, including a striking portrait study of Morisot in a black veil, while in mourning for her father's death ( displayed at the top of the article ).

The dealer holds the pack, face down, in one hand, and removes cards from the top of it with his or her other hand to distribute to the players, placing them face down on the table in front of the players to whom they are dealt.

Both columnist Liz Smith and film critic Rex Reed have mounted vigorous campaigns to gather support for an honorary Academy Award for Day to herald her film career and her status as the top female box-office star of all time.

Parton's initial success came as a songwriter, writing two top ten hits with her uncle Bill Owens: Bill Phillips's " Put it off Until Tomorrow " and Skeeter Davis ' 1967 hit " Fuel to the Flame ".

Cooper cracked open his briefcase long enough for her to glimpse eight red cylinders (" four on top of four ") attached to wires coated with red insulation, and a large cylindrical battery.

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

She won a listeners ' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948 – 1949, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March.

Alice now discards three of her own cards, and replaces them with three from the top of the deck ( Note: in a player-dealt casino game there is often a rule that the dealer must discard before picking up the deck, but this is a home game so we won't worry about such details ).

* Reversals or Sweeps: These occur when a grappler who was underneath his or her opponent on the ground is able to maneuver so that he or she gains a top position over his opponent.