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She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.
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She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She had helped him change his mind.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She seemed to have come such a long distance -- too far for her destination which had wilfully been swallowed up in the greedy gloom of the trees.
She had the feeling that, under the mouldering leaves, there would be the bodies of dead animals, quietly decaying and giving their soil back to the mountain.
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
She had been snared here by a vile sensuality that writhed around her throat in ever-tightening circles.
She had to escape.
She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.
She wondered what had taken place in town, between him and his wife.
She had spent too many hours looking ahead, hoping and longing to catch even a glimpse of Dan and finding nothing but emptiness.
She had arrived this morning and come straight to the English Gardens.
She had retreated to this world.
She had touched her face, truly a noble and pure face, only with a lip salve which made her lips glisten but no redder than usual.
She had hated the whole idea before they started.
She had driven up with her husband in a convertible with Eastern license plates, although the two drivers knew nothing at the moment about that.
She might have been someone he had once loved.
She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.
She was sitting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same position where the snake had found her.
She had the opportunity that few clever women can resist, of showing her superiority in argument over a man.
She and jumped
She hesitated, she hopped, she rolled and rocked, skipped and jumped, but in some two weeks she started to pace, From that time to this she has shown steady improvement and now looks like one of the classiest things on the grounds.
She jumped as the little man now appeared at the window and, reaching through the opening, offered her a bottle of coke.
She jumped out onto the flat expanse of rock and, seating herself, shook her short-cut brown hair and tilted her chin far upward.
She announced that Alcmene had safely delivered her child, and this surprised Lucina so much that she immediately jumped up and unclenched her hands.
She jumped aboard the ship soon after the expedition set out, invoking the protection of Artemis, whose virgin priestess she was.
She told the goddess that the baby was born ; this so startled her that she jumped up and unclasped her hands.
She had been captured by pirates and after a long voyage she had jumped overboard in the Bristol Channel and swam ashore.
She was threatened by men carrying rocks and bottles and when she jumped into her car to flee, the attackers jumped on the car, smashed the windshield, punctured the tires and poured bleach on her.
She dropped out of the race in October 2006 to take care of her mother who had jumped off a building while off her medications.
She is jumped three grades in Manticorian service ( skipping the ranks of rear admiral and vice admiral ), giving her the rank necessary for the post.
She was as enthusiastic about the script and about the visual references that were sort of put to her, and jumped on board.
She jumped in the bath, I had a kip and then played like a dream.
She toys with Turlough sadistically with a knife, but he manages to convince her that he jumped overboard to throw in his lot with her, to find out the secret of how she will win the race.
She has never considered her career to have jumped off so suddenly: " I think it's funny when people say I ’ m an overnight sensation, because I ’ ve been working at it for 10 years.
She escaped from the apartment where she was being held in the rough suburb of Arlöv, moved to Malmö, and after three months, day after she had been raped by her boyfrend and two other men, on 7 January 2000 jumped from a bridge and died three days later in the hospital.
She jumped the world record at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg with 15. 50m after studying a picture of Jonathan Edwards.
She jumped 14. 27 metres in 1998 and 14. 40 metres in 2000.
She also jumped two career bests: 15. 03 in the triple jump in the Rome Golden Gala, and 6. 67 in long jump in Rieti.
She jumped to the conclusion that this must be the house for sale, drove out to Hemingford Grey in a taxi, knocked at the door and announced the astonished owners that she would be interested in buying it.
She jumped at the chance to join A. E. G. I. S.
She had plans visit her Grandma, however while she was out picking a bouquet of flowers, a large wolf, with the biggest jaws, jumped her, and ran away with her basket of goodies she had planned to give to her grandmother.
She had been on her way to school one morning when a car jumped the curb, went into the driveway in front of the school and killed her.
She then whirled around and started chasing Bill, who jumped on a pile of cottonseed sacks to escape.
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