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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl. DAISY ASHFORD I'm sure she got 200 to 300 pairs a day, but someone brought mine to her. She took them with her to ...
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She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN She said the thing that killed her was chipping. Everything else was great for her.
JOANIE EWING
She said if there was a film to be made on her life, then I was her choice. SHARON STONE
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. PETER USTINOV
I met Lana in her final years and liked her a great deal. We got along really well. She said if ther... SHARON STONE Now now,” he said, setting his hand on her shoulder. He didn’t even see her turn. One moment she...
MATT TOMERLIN There was so much tree gum in her hair from where he dragged her through the woods. She told me she ...
LARONDA BULLARD I said, 'I'm her daughter,' ... She was flabbergasted.
DOLORES JOHNSON I said, 'I'm her daughter,' ... She was flabbergasted.
DOLORES JOHNSON And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood befor...
BIBLE
You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that? ... JEANIENE FROST We sent a letter and she said that she was flattered but her schedule didn't allow.
JANINE DIGIOACCHINO
Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of ... ZORA NEALE HURSTON (She was arrested) while a guest at that hotel and people thought that was overstepping our bounds. ...
JOSE CUEVAS
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to m... PETER USTINOV He just threatened [the sister]. Apparently he told her he would kill her if she said anything. She ...
TOM SMART She called Nash County communications to see if it was her brother.
LT. PAT JOYNER One little girl asked her mom if she could take $20 out of her piggy bank, ... I asked her if she di...
TROY MILLER She (Olivo) called me the day before she left (for La Academia USA). She was so excited and her enth...
DAVE SCHMIDT
In the pause that followed, Shane understood why people said their hearts broke. She always thought ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH I asked her what she was doing, and she said she couldn't sleep and she came in to throw away old re...
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He offered her the world. She said she had her own. MONIQUE DUVAL He offered her the world. She said she had her own!
HANAE AVLEE
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SAUDI ARABIA I came out and saw the girl stumbling out of the car. I asked her if she was OK. She said yeah. She ...
JULIE GILBERT He said, 'So I started strangling her. To make sure she was dead I stabbed her,
GARY HALL The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...
VERONICS ROTH Police called me today and informed me she was found. I think she had been there since the last nigh...
DANIEL CONLEY My mom's reaction was the funniest. I told her I was playing in the All-Star game and she said 'why?...
JIMMY ROY
Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lo... TERRY GOODKIND She said she was going to get us there. They left her open and she felt it.
RANDY WAGONER Everyone wanted to know why she did it. And I said because her boyfriend broke up with her. He was h...
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Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe. TONI MORRISON She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed h...
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There were other things,too, to ask him. Always she tries to be less forward. Always she tried to fi... PAULLINA SIMONS She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took he...
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Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to com... RICK RIORDAN They said she was under a bridge, and she heard someone calling her name, but it wasn't a voice she ...
HONI REISMAN I just bent her over and kissed her. She went her way and I went mine. We never said a word to each ...
ERNEST DUBAY
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. Sh... JUSTIN CHON She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her ...
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What was this power, this insidious threat, this invisible gun to her head that controlled her life ... FANNIE FLAGG I talked to her about it. She said that it was the best thing that could have happened to her. When ...
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We knew that Cecilia had killed herself because she was a misfit, because the beyond called to her, ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES Josie just had a different spirit than her atmosphere. She wanted to break out of the walls that wer...
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She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was ... ELIZABETH HARDWICK
He rushed beyond the barrier and called to her to follow. He was shouted at to go on but he still ca... JAMES JOYCE
Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield carried her names with ease. She was thirteen years old... STUART HILL The problem was that their catcher made no attempt to tag Mandy after she got the ball. She was look...
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My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... RUTH REICHL She loved to travel with me and my sister. If we called and said we were going anywhere, we had to t...
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I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... JOAN SUTHERLAND
years. I kept remembering all the times I’d teased her or called her father a fornicator or simply... NICHOLAS SPARKS A good wife is Royal in Heart. She is a crown to her husband, and pride to the home where she was ra...
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[She said the book that changed her life was] Exodus ... a sense of identification. LEON URIS She was having trouble in kindergarten and we questioned it, but not a whole lot because she wasn't ...
LINDA BOYD She goes by 'Chris,' not 'Christine,' in her everyday life. Calling her Christine would be like usin...
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I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property... JOAN RIVERS
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