"When I called her she was beside herself with joy, and I was present when she was reunited with Jaycee, " he said.

CNN: Authorities study bone found near accused kidnapper's home

Ms Cole said the victim was "beside herself with worry and terrified" even before matters escalated with a message left three days later on her answer machine.

BBC: Perth Sheriff Court

She plunks herself down beside me and tells me that they have been playing basketball against Huntsville.

NEWYORKER: Amundsen

Lillian takes a deep breath to calm herself, and she smells her mother beside her, perspiration and green onion and the singed, nutty scent of buckwheat groats tossed from one side of the skillet to the other in a perfect, nonchalant brown arc.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Away'

She had opened the door and gone down the steps just once since Rich had died, to see that no lights had been left on, and to assure herself that the fuse switches were there, with labels written beside them to tell her which controlled what.

NEWYORKER: Free Radicals