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 has since retired from public life but frequently makes guest appearances for Democratic and other political causes.

She also offered her home as a shelter for an immigrant family from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

She covered the 1920 Republican National Convention and 1920 Democratic National Convention for the United Press Association.

She endorsed Senator Edward Kennedy for President in 1980, but could not stop President Jimmy Carter from winning the Illinois Democratic Primary.

She was able to replace Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, County Board President George Dunne, a Daley loyalist, with her ally Alderman Edward Vrdolyak.

On October 29, 2006, Judd appeared at a " Women for Ford " event for Democratic Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr. She has also campaigned extensively locally and nationally for a variety of Democratic candidates, including President Barack Obama in critical swing states.

She represented Tennessee as a delegate in the 2012 Democratic National Convention on September 5, 2012.

In October 2010, Angela Merkel told a meeting of younger members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) party at Potsdam, near Berlin, that attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany had " utterly failed ", stating: " The concept that we are now living side by side and are happy about it does not work "., She continued to say that immigrants should integrate and adopt Germany's culture and values.

She was active in Americans for Democratic Action, the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.

She is a member of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Blue Dog Coalition.

She is the first woman to have won the Democratic nomination for a U. S. Senate seat in Texas.

She has also served as a major Democratic Party foreign policy advisor, and briefed Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro in 1984 and Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in 1988 ( both campaigns ended in defeat ).

She became a friend of one of the leaders of the California Democratic Party, 5th District Congressman Phillip Burton.

She was elected as party chair for Northern California on January 30, 1977, and for the California Democratic Party, which she held from 1981 until 1983.

She was nominated by Rahm Emanuel of Illinois, the incoming chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, and sworn in by her longtime friend John Dingell of Michigan as the Dean of the House of Representatives traditionally does.

She also spoke on Iraq as the major issue facing the 110th Congress, while incorporating some Democratic Party beliefs:

She served as president of the company while remaining active in Democratic politics.

She won overwhelmingly with more than 70 % of the votes, defeating the candidate of Democratic Action.

She was successively a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania ( SDKPiL ), the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ), the Independent Social Democratic Party ( USPD ), and the Communist Party of Germany ( KPD ).

She and Leo Jogiches co-founded the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland ( SDKP ) ( later Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania

" She has visited the White House six times since 1976, under both Republican and Democratic presidents, and in her autobiography, she said her father was a Republican and her mother was a Democrat.

She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U. S. presidential election.

She attained the rank of deputy to the Supreme Soviet, membership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Central Committee, Vice President of the International Woman ’ s Democratic Federation and President of the Soviet-Algerian Friendship Society.