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.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

She has one half-brother, John Blyth Barrymore, also an actor, and two half-sisters, Blyth Dolores Barrymore and ( Brahma ) Jessica Blyth Barrymore.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

She also starred in the 1985 film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Shannen Doherty.

She will make a cameo in an episode of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, where she will be voiced by Jessica DiCicco.

In 1987, Burton played Dave Robinson, a journalist ( sports writer ), in the third season of Murder, She Wrote, episode 16 " Death Takes a Dive " starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.

She appeared as " Jessica " on the big screen in The Satanic Rites of Dracula, released in the UK on 13 January 1974, which was the last of Hammer Film's Dracula series starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

While scenes for Murder, She Wrote were being filmed in Mendocino, residents say that it was not uncommon to see Angela Lansbury, who played Jessica Fletcher, stop to speak with a toddler, or for Tom Bosley to sign his autograph on a Glad Bag box presented by a shopper stepping out of the local grocery store.

She also had a small role on Harry and the Hendersons, playing Jessica.

She has been stopped twice, by TKO ; the contest with Rolanda Andrews and by a head butt and resulting cut in her second bout with Jessica Rakoczy.

Lansbury is perhaps best known to modern audiences for her twelve-year run starring as writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher on the American television series Murder, She Wrote ( 1984 – 1996 ).

Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

She also provided the voice of Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 live action / animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and again in the Disneyland attraction spinoff, Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.

She is further honored in the episode ' The End of Time " when the Doctor visits the great-granddaughter of Matron Joan Redford from the episode " Human Nature ", ( played by the original actress Jessica Hynes ) the human love interest he gives up to reclaim his Time Lord memories.

She then appeared on NBC television as Anna Stieman in A Boy Called Ciske, a Kraft Mystery Theatre production, in May 1958, and in a vignette entitled " Miracle in the Orphanage ", part of " The Christmas Tree ", a Hallmark Hall of Fame production, in December 1958 with fellow child actor Richard Thomas and veteran actors Jessica Tandy and Margaret Hamilton.

She is in talks to star alongside Sarah Jessica Parker in the indie comedy, Married and Cheating.

She played the leading role of Jessica Bradford in the 1974 Canadian horror film, Black Christmas.

She played Jessica 6 in Logan's Run, Jill Mason in Equus, Alex Price in An American Werewolf in London, and Joanne Simpson in Child's Play 2.

Morena Baccarin (, born June 2, 1979 ) is a Brazilian American film and television actress best known for roles in several American science fiction television series: as Inara Serra in the series Firefly and the follow-up film Serenity ; as Adria in the series Stargate SG-1 and the follow-up film Stargate: The Ark of Truth ; and as Anna in the 2009 version of the series V. She currently co-stars as Jessica Brody in the Showtime series Homeland.

She guest-starred in the episode titled " Sex and Another City " from season 3 of Sex and the City with Sarah Jessica Parker.

* She Cat: Real name: Jessica Hunt.

The band is named after the Murder, She Wrote character Jessica Fletcher.

In the title song he credits Jessica McClure's ordeal for inspiring him to quit drinking, stating, " She was trapped in there with a broken arm in the dark, in a life-and-death situation she was singing nursery rhymes to herself and being brave ,"..." It made my problems seem tiny.

She does, however, manage to slip in a plug for her garage band, " The Stains ," which consists of herself, her sister Tracy, and their cousin Jessica.