She could not breathe; he was choking her; her stays were like a swiftly compressing band of iron; his arms about her made her shake with helpless hate and fury.
And it's not just idiot compassion, it's something worse, you see, and this is also partly how it's portrayed in the story of Adam and Eve, because what Eve essentially does is proclaim her ability to take
As I hold my shattered arm to my chest, I turn and run down the other end of the long, dark hallway, making sure to go the opposite way from Mr. Huge Hands and his barbecue bride.
Battling against the waves and fierce winds they reached the survivors and managed to rescue nine people including a woman clutching the lifeless bodies of her two children.
She spent one night at a Salvation Army hostel, listening to two girls argue in the next-door cubicle, her bag clutched to her chest under the blanket.