She was amazingly light, and so relaxed in his arms that he wasn't even sure she was conscious.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She glanced around the clearing, taking in the wagon and the load of supplies and trappings scattered over the ground, the two kids, the whiteface bull that was chewing its cud just within the far reaches of the firelight.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

She was quick.

She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

She was bewildered.

She was standing in a thick grove.

She already knew this unwholesome, chilling atmosphere that was somehow grotesquely alive.

She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

She was wearing nothing beneath the coat.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

She was just not able to break the spell.

She was telling herself that this might just be her reward at the end of a long meaningful search for truth.

Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!

She confessed she was unhappy, he asked was it her husband??

She began to explain, `` There was this poet, in Italy '' He interrupted, `` Please don't judge all poets ''.

She was like charcoal, he thought -- dark, opaque, explosive.

She then switched to Guardian, with whom she produced a live album, Ring Them Bells ( 1995 ), and a studio album, Gone from Danger ( 1997 ).

She has written more than fifty novels including the much loved " Flambards " series of pony stories, for which she won both the 1969 Carnegie Medal in Literature from the Library Association and the 1970 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, judged by a panel of British children's writers.

She also worked as a Poor Law Guardian and was shocked by the harsh conditions she encountered in Manchester workhouses.

In a 2002 letter to The Guardian Deborah relates the experience: " We were not prepared for what we found-the person lying in bed was desperately ill. She had lost two stone ( 28 pounds ), was all huge eyes and matted hair, untouched since the bullet went through her skull.

She is now the Guardian of the Orange Corp, having traded her service as a Guardian to Larfleeze in exchange for the latter's aid during the Blackest Night event ( true to the Orange light of Avarice, he wanted to have his own guardian ).

She is the only member of the Guardian Senshi to not use honorifics when shouting Usagi's name, something that is reserved for people who are extremely close, during the use of the Silver Crystal in the same movie.

She is best known for her novel Fugitive Pieces ( 1996 ) ( 1997 in the UK ), it was awarded the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, Orange Prize for Fiction and the Guardian Fiction Prize.

She was praised by the critics, including Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian, who wrote, " Watts's face metamorphoses miraculously from fresh-faced beauty to a frenzied, teary scowl of ugliness.

In a review of the biography of Dame Shirley Porter by Andrew Hosken ( see " See also "), Nicholas Lezard in The Guardian described her in the following terms: " She remains, by a considerable margin, the most corrupt British public figure in living memory, with the possible exception of Robert Maxwell ".

She worked as a journalist, working for the BBC as a studio manager and then became Welsh correspondent for the Guardian and Observer newspapers during 1964-79.

She was described as a " Labour lickspittle " in The Guardian newspaper's sketch column, for asking the Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, a leading question about Conservative Party policy during the last session of Prime Minister's Questions before the 2010 British general election.

Andrew Roth of the Guardian describes her as an: " intelligent, battle hardened leftwing solicitor built into the Labour machine " She was Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from 2009 to 2010.

She accused the council of " showing disrespect " to people in the north of the town and told the Warrington Guardian at the time that: " Our Chief Executive appears to have gone missing.

She was an economics writer for The Guardian from 1990, before becoming deputy head of the Inflation Report Division of the Bank of England in 1994.

" She added that due to this detail, most Iranian families would be, in the words of Simon Hattenstone of The Guardian, " blue blooded.

She received positive reviews for her live appearances in Great Britain from The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian.

She also narrated three " making-of " documentaries on the Doctor Who DVD boxset, The Black Guardian Trilogy.

She later rejoined The Guardian.

She urged Guardian readers to vote with a clothes peg over their nose if they had to, to make sure Michael Howard would not win from a split vote.

She started on the left of the political spectrum, writing for The Guardian and New Statesman.

She began her career on the liberal left with The Guardian.

She appeared in the TV dramas Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon ( 2003-4 ), Mop Girl ( lead role ) ( 2007 ), Homeroom on the Beachside ( 2008 ), Buzzer Beat ( 2009 ), and Moon Lovers ( 2010 ).

Between 1258 and 1263, Adelaide was regent of Holland in the name of her nephew Floris V. She called herself Guardian of Holland and Zeeland ( Tutrix de Hollandie et Zeelandie ).