Temple of film

Usage examples of shirley.

Before Shirley left for Ibiza it was decided that Rosa was a stout-hearted mingler with uncanny instincts -- but that might have changed by now.

Reaching her suitcase on the chair where Sarge had parked it, Shirley tugged it open in the dark and began pawing with one hand for the night things while she peeled her dress with her other hand and kicked off her shoes.

It was all so very logical to everyone except Shirley, who had been watching from upstairs while both Sarge and Gregg had been at the study door.

Shirley Stiller, and here she was brazenly claiming to be Lorene Spritzer.

Together they produced a child named Hisser, of indeterminate sex, whom they tried so very desperately to love, but who was, in fact, a hideous mutant with six legs, four arms, sucker pads on its hands and feet, a mouth half as big as its misshapen head, blazing red eyes, and an adorable mass of springy blond curls that once made Shirley Temple weep bitterly with envy.

He is armed with the affidavits from Shirley Donaldson, Ricky Sparrow, and the nicest lady on Cape Cod, Laurie Griffin.

Shirley Robinson, meanwhile, signed a greetings card of congratulations, alongside two of the Wests other children, Stephen and Mae.

Now there were two pregnant women living within the crowded confines of Cromwell Street, which also boasted two female lodgers on its top floor and Shirley Robinson one floor beneath them, whose small room was opposite another occupied by the Wests eldest daughter Anna-Marie.

The most recent skirmish pitted wiry little Esperanza against Shirley, goddamning and screw-you-ing each other to a standoff, Elvira wedged between them laboring for peace.

Sir William was married to Selina, daughter of Evelyn John Shirley, Esq., of Eatington, Warwickshire, a marriage occasioning great happiness and benefit to all the parish and neighbourhood.

It was like the whole continent of America, with all us white people and Injuns and niggers, me included, lay sprawled like poor Miss Maybelle Shirley, with her end nearing, blacking out the stars.

George McGovern is so close to a first-ballot nomination in Miami that everybody except Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, Shirley Chisholm, and Ed Muskie seems ready to accept it as a foregone conclusion.

Watson wasn't there a year when somebody put a load of buckshot into a woman named Myra Maybelle Shirley, who lived with a dang Injun, Tom Starr's son.

They were waiting for her, they were going to help Peter hang her from a sour apple tree or perhaps stone her the way the townspeople had stoned the woman in that Shirley Jackson story she'd read back in high school.

Even the Terrible Old Man who talks to leaden pendulums in bottles, buys groceries with centuried Spanish gold, and keeps stone idols in the yard of his antediluvian cottage in Water Street can only say these things were the same when his grandfather was a boy, and that must have been inconceivable ages ago, when Belcher or Shirley or Pownall or Bernard was Governor of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts-Bay.