The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.
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Related Sandy felt warmly towards Miss Brodie at these times when she saw how she was misled in her idea of ... MURIEL SPARK We talked about it and I told her she is here to get through school. I told her I would take her any... BILL HANDER She would have to take this as a lesson for future; she would never get drunk and unknowingly plot w... BETH ASHWORTH And when he winked at her, she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that from that moment on, she wo... PRISCILLA GLENN From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailo... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT She never said she never would impose the death penalty. Her answers were that she would have to hea... ANDRE DE GRUY Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who... LAURA ESQUIVEL She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In ... NEVIL SHUTE (Villegas) has a passion for the game that comes from living it. She does not get enough of it. You ... JEFF BARKER She pulled the bedclothes up as far as they would go and suppressed a perverse wish to have her old ... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER If she had loved him, he would have opened windows, allowed all of that precious light of hers in sh... AMANDA LANCE She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g... JIM HOUDEK That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, hal... SANHITA BARUAH She completely devoured it within a second. ... If she would have been ill for any other medical rea... KATHRYN TUCKER Even as a young child in school she would rush to finish her school work so she could draw pictures. ANN EVANS She was really encouraging and she went out of her way to tell you, 'Good job' when you did a good j... ANDEE WHITAKER There were questions about whether we would postpone the game, but she would not have wanted that. S... STEPHANIE FERLITA If someone had told Allie that she would commit a premeditated act of murder, she would not have bel... NEAL SHUSTERMAN She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN With the passing of time, she would slowly tire of this exercise. She would find it increasingly exh... KHALED HOSSEINI That would be a nightmare for me to have to replace Val. Bethany Hart was ready. I know she could ha... SHAUNA ROHBOCK If we have any evidence that she steps into the province of Ontario we would obtain a warrant for he... MICHAEL BRYANT She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left... ANITA GATTIS she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp... JODI PICOULT Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of... VICTORIA PRINCIPAL She would have to go to the Children's Hospital in [Northern Virginia] every two weeks, then she wou... LEANN SCHMIDT Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that sk... STIEG LARSSON As far as I know, Vera Miles had a terrible time with Hitchcock, and she wanted to get out of the co... TIPPI HEDREN George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, fo... METTE IVIE HARRISON Liz did an outstanding job. Unfortunately, we had too many errors. But none of them hurt us. As soon... AMANDA MCLEAN She climbs down and pours half an inch of Jim Beam into a Bengals mug that came free with a tank of ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make ef... SHINZO ABE Dolorita Hunsickle says that the chipmunks tell your fortune if you catch them but I never did. She ... NEIL GAIMAN The best result would be that she would be forgiven for what she did. ROBERT AXELROD As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for ... WILLIAM MANCHESTER I knew she would win as soon as I heard she was going to be in the movie. JOHN WILSON She had been waiting for someone to notice her, like, really notice her. She felt that that was the ... ROSE FALL If she had not been imprudence incarnate, she would not have acted as she did when she met Henchard ... THOMAS HARDY Maybe I’m not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she... COLLEEN HOOVER She is a playmaker. At halftime, she told her teammates to follow her and she would lead us back. We... STEVE HOLLOWAY Whatever shred of hope he'd had for a future with her was gone. She still felt something for him, sh... SARAH J. MAAS Even if she comes back for Champs she will not be in the type of shape we would expect. MAURICE WILSON Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underne... MURIEL SPARK The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make ... STEVE HILTZ At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a pa... DEAN KOONTZ It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I... JOHN GREEN Asha Greyjoy did not intend to be taken alive. She would die as she had lived, with an axe in her ha... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could if she wa... NAOMI ALDERMAN It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she w... NAOMI ALDERMAN I would feel sorry for her if she did. PAT NIXON I'm very concerned because of the serial killer. She was aware of that and she promised me that she ... LINDA JOHNSON [Christy] joined some other girls from her floor who had gathered in the den to watch THe Princess B... ROBIN JONES GUNN It started with modeling. Ever since she was a baby, she would always get stopped. She was a beautif... MICHELLE TUCKER Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I woul... PAT CONROY she feels still that grasp upon her ankle as if it were a circlet of iron: the embodiment of matrimo... EMMANUELLE DE MAUPASSANT Her brothers kept wrestling her at the house. She kept asking her dad if she could wrestle and he wo... KATHY MCCAULEY If she had done the floor routine she'd done last week she would have gotten a 9.8, but we needed he... BILL RYDEN Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON She thought that they could live together for twenty years and he might never consider asking her ab... BONNIE DEE She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH I would never agree to have my client incarcerated. I believe if she were found guilty on all charge... LAURA PERKOVIC I contacted the mother and she came to the school very irate. At that point she made a threat to blo... ZICKEYOUS BYRD I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tac... JEAN RHYS I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well OLIVER GOLDSMITH I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. OLIVER GOLDSMITH I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enj... CHARLES ANSON I think the queen -- I worked for her for seven years -- enjoys her work. But even if she didn't enj... CHARLES ANSON Christina knew she wanted to play basketball. She wanted to make sure that she also chose a school t... JEANNINE PARADIS And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the cir... ANTHONY LICCIONE At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A someth... SHūSAKU ENDō Magic ran between them like a current, a cord, and he wondered who she would have been if she’d st... V.E. SCHWAB We need a place," she said, "just for us. It would be so secret that we would never tell anyone in t... KATHERINE PATERSON I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 bo... TERRY BRADSHAW And he knew that at that moment, they understood each other perfectly, and when he told her what he ... J.K. ROWLING She came to me at halftime and said that she could take (the player guarding her). Tara thinks she t... TOM SUELZLE She was scared she might misjudge the step and that she would go down and nobody would be able to ge... MAGGIE NIEVES I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of f... TERESA OF ÁVILA She would get more excited and show more emotion when she would make the pass and earn an assist or ... KATHLEEN SINRAM [She was] feeling if she couldn't get through in the days to come, that she would have that, that sh... LYDIA SARTAIN She wondered if she was the only person trying not to imagine what death-by-bear looked like. ... JAKE VANDER-ARK (Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
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(Solanio:) I would she wer... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think she did her job as well as she was instructed to do her job. JACKIE WAGSTAFF How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS First time she's ever played varsity and she stepped up and did a nice job. I was hoping she would c... DENNIS MELCHER She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... PHILIP PULLMAN What are you doing here?" she asked as she slowed from a jog to a walk and placed her hands on her h... KIMBERLY DERTING She did not think it was love. She did not think it was love when she felt a curious ache and anxiet... ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT I wish she would grow up. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'l... C.S. LEWIS Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wro... BILL SCHULTZ Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, ... STEPHEN M. IRWIN She wasn't quite all there for me today. She wanted to do too much early. If I could have kept her b... GARRETT GOMEZ She spoke on various sides of the issue, ... She spoke about how deeply she cared for the child, how... DORIS MEISSNER Before Tracy left, she came to me and said she thought I would be good at it. I know I have really b... JENNIFER HINSON If I were in a different body, this would be the time I would lean down and kiss her. If I were in a... DAVID LEVITHAN I would have loved to see Paula have more success than she did, because she is the right kind of per... JON CAREY
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