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She stood sipping and chewing and watching.
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She and stood
She stood quite still, trying to focus upon a direction in which to turn, a path to follow, a clue to guide her.
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 had stood at the bottom of the stairs, as usual, when Mrs. Coolidge came down, in the same dress that is now in the Smithsonian, to greet her guests.
She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.
She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.
She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.
She stood still over the leg of lamb, rubbing herbs into it, quite suddenly conscious of a nausea in her stomach and a feeling of wrath, a sensation of violence that started her shivering.
She measured the distance from where they stood to the men and the gun, measured the distance from the men to the back room.
She stood there, watching Holden come in, and she put the piece of toast in her mouth and bit off one corner with a huge chomp of her white teeth.
She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.
She later explained her belief that her hair – which " had never been combed and ... stood out like a bushel basket " – might have saved her life.
" The Earl stood by his wife, asking his colleagues to intercede for her ; there was no hope: " She Queen doth take every occasion by my marriage to withdraw any good from me ", Leicester wrote still after seven years of marriage.
She found that T. horridus and several other species belonged together, and T. prorsus and T. brevicornus stood alone, and since there were many more specimens in the first group, she suggested that this meant the two groups were two species.
She stood as godmother for Matilda of Scotland, who would become Queen of England after marrying Matilda's son Henry I.
She and chewing
She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.
She gets back at Kearney by stealing his chewing gum, blunting his fish spears and sabotaging his fishing lines.
She asked that the doll be changed because she felt it had the appearance of a " bulldog chewing a wasp ".
She and watching
She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.
She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;
" She was one of the greatest pantomime artists I have ever seen ", he said, " it was through watching her that I learned not only how to express emotions with my hands and face, but also how to observe and study people.
She stated that she learned more about acting from watching Chaney work than from anything else in her career.
" She then returns to her grave, beside Mrs. Gibbs, watching impassively as George kneels weeping at her graveside.
She prohibited visitors — including the studio brass — from her sets and demanded that black flats or screens surround her to prevent extras and technicians from watching her.
She is called the daughter of Hyperion, the Titan lord of light, watching and the east by his wife and sister Theia, Titaness of sight, tracing and the shining blue light of heaven ( aethre ).
After the release of The Petrified Forest, Friz Freleng made the short-length cartoon parody She Was an Acrobat's Daughter ( 1937 ), which portrays a cinema audience watching The Petrified Florist, starring Bette Davis and Lester Coward.
She describes socializing with others as “ boring ” and has no interest in reading or watching entertainment about emotional issues or relationships.
She was a very good role model for me, watching the way, you know, she dealt with people on the set, and watching people revere her.
She did forty-eight shows for " broken soldiers ," who were mostly lying on stretchers in the lobbies of hotels, watching as she entertained them.
She was killed by a drunken driver, and many viewers stopped watching the show because of this death.
She then sat drinking cocktails and playing a foxtrot record, " Hula Lou ," over and over for about four hours as she sat watching Kalstedt die.
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