Mary's busy sister

Usage examples of martha.

After the dinner, which was a very elaborate one, was at an end, and the guests were discussing their tobacco-pipes, Martha Hilton glided into the room, and stood blushing in front of the chimney-place.

They bundled Martha into the back seat and drove the Aston Martin out beyond Esher and Weybridge to the country near Cobham where the M25 motorway now rings London, picking up sandwiches on the way.

Had Martha Stoddard over at the Athenaeum screen out the crazies, and God but there are enough of those.

Then, renewed herself, Charlotte left her sister atremble with the weight of her sorrows, expecting Martha to still be standing strong, waiting, next time Charlotte needed her.

At one point I called Martha Battenberg for an update, only to be told by her answering service that she was out of town.

Looking through the wide deckhouse windows, I saw the slim, brown, bikinied shape of Martha Borden emerge from the kitchen door just mentioned.

Normal George interacting with Martha would eventually win her over, and her bitchiness would recede into the background.

The tour which John and Martha Yeardley made in and around Buckinghamshire, and which is mentioned at the conclusion of the last chapter, was undertaken in quest of a new place of abode.

This time, Martha spent the first segment baking lemon butter cookies, and during the second half-hour prepared cioppino, a kind of fish stew.

Shall he go to Harvard alone, or shall he go to coeducational California with the hope that Martha will follow him?

Martha Carrier, Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar, Mary Bradbury, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Reed, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacey, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs stood convicted of practicing witchcraft.

General Court voted in October that the conviction and attainders of George Burroughs, John Proctor, George Jacobs, John Willard, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Mary Easty, Sarah Wildes, Abigail Hobbs, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Faulkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, and Dorcas Hoar be reversed.

Raptly, Martha Merriam hunched over the magazine, tugging at her violet-sprigged housedress so that it almost covered her plump knees.

An Inupiaq Eskimo from a tiny village in the Brooks Range, Martha now lived in a rundown housing project in Fairbanks.

These alliterative expressions, collected by the linguist Martha Ratcliff, give some inkling of the intimate relationship the Hmong of Laos had with the natural world.