She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She saw it then, the distant derrick of the wildcat -- a test well in unexplored country.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

`` She didn't really say '' -- She glanced away at the floor, then swooped gracefully and picked up one of Scotty's slippers.

She just about made me carry her upstairs and then she clung to me and wouldn't let me go.

She had surprised Hans like she had surprised me when she said she'd go, and then she surprised him again when she came back so quick like she must have, because when I came in with the snow she was there with a bottle with three white feathers on its label and Hans was holding it angrily by the throat.

She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

She then went over them thoroughly giving each a strenuous test in showmanship.

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).

She then described her experience as one in which she first had difficulty accepting for herself a state of being in which she relinquished control.

She retreated by leaving the room when we suggested that our meeting might well terminate right then and there.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

She was Mary Lou Brew then, wide-eyed, but not naive.

She worked as a domestic, first in Newport for a year, and then in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for another year.

She had assumed before then that one day he would ask her to marry him.

She was thirty-one years old then.

She walked restlessly across the room, then back to the windows.

She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.

She made a face at him and then she laughed.

She threw back a cushion over one of the seats, unlocked a padlock on the chest beneath it, then presently straightened, holding a long knife and a wicked looking spear gun in her hand.

She took postgraduate work at the University of Grenoble in France and then returned to London to work on market research with an advertising firm.

She ordered or commanded successful expeditions against Ferrara ( 1101 ), Parma ( 1104 ), Prato ( 1107 ) and Mantua ( 1114 ).

She was defeated and killed by an army commanded by Maurice de Londres of Oystermouth Castle.

She was escorted by armed horsemen commanded by Cleutin.

She commanded that the child be delivered by Caesarean section, an operation that in those days cost the life of the mother.

She established herself at Calais and organized two fleets, one of which was commanded by Eustace the Monk, and an army under Robert of Courtenay.

She also commanded him to leave the Tower and go home, but Jane insisted that he remain at court, at her side.

She was then commanded to the Royal yacht by King Edward VII where he congratulated her on her pluck and skill, and they discussed the performance of the boat and its potential for British government despatch work.

She also held the titles of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony from birth, as well as a Princess of Teck by marriage, until 1917 when she was commanded to relinquish them by the Letters Patent of George V. She was godmother to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who was the granddaughter of her first cousin, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

She commanded the VMA stage with a seven-minute medley of her # 1 hits: " Straight Up ", " Cold Hearted " and " Forever Your Girl ".

She travelled with her husband to Canada and America when he commanded the 20th Regiment of Foot.

She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120.

She was descended from Robert Fulton, developer of the steamboat, from the Plymouth Colony's first governor, William Bradford, and on her mother's side she was the granddaughter of General Walter Phelps, who commanded troops at the Civil War Battle of Antietam and the seventh great-granddaughter of Puritan colonist William Phelps.

She went on to have a long-lasting vaudeville career and eventually commanded one of the highest salaries of any performer of the day earning as much as $ 3, 500 a week at the height of her fame around 1910.

She sank two, but a third, Vrede, commanded by Jan Daniëlszoon van den Rijn, its approach shielded by Vice-Admiral Isaac Sweers's Oliphant, set her on fire.

She was commanded by Commander Casey Abbott, played by Ronald Reagan.

She was named after the Greek mythic figure who commanded the Greek forces during the Trojan War.

She was commanded for three years by John Sheridan until 2259 when he was named to replace Jeffrey Sinclair as the commander of Babylon 5.

She is commanded to dwell in a barrow within the earth ( þes eorðsele ), wherein she is compelled to mourn the loss of her lord and her present exile.

She was built by Fop Smit, commanded by F. C.

She was commanded by Captain George Vancouver on his voyage of exploration from 1791 to 1795.

She was commanded by Captain George Nares during the British Arctic Expedition between 1875 and 1876.

She was commanded by Captain Robert Falcon Scott during the Discovery Expedition to the Antarctic in 1901, and was sold in 1905.

She also engaged to maintain 30, 000 men in Italy, to be commanded by Savoy-Sardinia.