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 is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010.

She was Honorary President and Board Member of the Canadian Psychological Association from 2009 – 2010.

She was a Patron of the International Red Cross Committee, honorary chair of the British United Aid to China Fund, and First Honorary Member of the Bill of Rights Commemorative Society.

She had a busy official role from 1932 to 1939 and, following her husband's death, stood for Parliament herself, becoming Australia's first female Member of the House of Representatives, and later first woman in Cabinet, joining the Menzies Cabinet in 1951.

She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

She was taken far less seriously than before, with some calling her " The Member for Berlin ".

She was made a Member of Honour of the Association of Writers in Catalan Language ( Associació d ' Escriptors en Llengua Catalana ).

She founded the gender unit at the International Centre for Mountain Development ( ICIMOD ) in Kathmandu and was a founding Board Member of the Women's Environment & Development Organization ( WEDO )

She entered the House of Commons at the 1997 general election in the Labour landslide as the Member of Parliament for Staffordshire Moorlands, a seat held previously by David Knox and which had been Conservative for 27 years.

She is a member of the California Indian Basket Weavers Association, she serves on several committees and organizations, Chaffey College Equity Council, Pomona Human Relations Board Member, Riverside School District Native American Consultant, California Indian Education Association, and she is President of Residential Motivators, her consulting firm.

She was the daughter of Richard Jennings ( or Jenyns ), a Member of Parliament, and Frances Thornhurst.

She has been Member of the Jury and Master of Ceremony in previous years, as well as winning the Best Actress Award twice.

She is the founder and former leader of the national conservative political party Social Action ; from 2004 until 2008, Mussolini also served as Member of the European Parliament, and has since been a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament, for the ruling People of Freedom party.

She has been a Member of Parliament ( MP ) since 1992, and currently represents Hampstead and Kilburn.

She was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Romsey in Hampshire from 2000 to 2010, when she lost her seat to Conservative MP Caroline Nokes.

She is a Board Member of Stephens College, and has been instrumental in fundraising efforts for the college for many years.

She remains the longest ever serving female Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, by both length of total and length of continuous service.

She was elected as Member of Parliament for Exeter in 1966, emulating her husband in nearby Falmouth and Camborne.

She served as a Member of Parliament at Westminster from 1969 to 1974 for the Mid Ulster constituency.

She was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Ladywood from 1983 to 2010 ; for most of this period she was a Labour Party MP, but she resigned the party whip in 2006 and served the remainder of her term as an Independent.

She stood down as a Member of Parliament at the 2010 general election.

She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire ( MBE ) in the 2007 New Year's Honours List by her grandmother ( on the advice of HM Government ) for her services to equestrianism.

* She was a member of the Executive Board of the National Academy, Member of the Lalit Kala Akademi and the National Handicrafts Board and Member of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

She served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) in the British Columbia legislature from 1972 to 1986, making her the first Black Canadian woman to be elected to a Canadian provincial legislature.