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 had a huge, formidable personality, and an infectious sense of humour.

She became instrumental in recruiting more members and making the maquis groups into a formidable force, roughly 7, 500 strong.

She is a master of martial arts and a formidable fencer.

She and her husband became a formidable team.

She would, however, become the most formidable opponent of reform as her political influence increased.

She has a magical mask that transforms her into a purple panther of formidable strength by pulling the mask over her eyes.

She has attempted to regain the world title but, with the rise of the Chinese women and the formidable Polgár sisters, this has proved difficult and her best performance since 1991 has been 1st in the Tilburg Candidates tournament of 1994, losing the playoff to Zsuzsa Polgár by 5½ – 1½.

She was regarded as a formidable and astute woman, whose influence on her husband was said to be considerable.

She was a formidable woman warrior and had a straightforward personality.

She is immensely powerful and fast, and is considered to be a formidable opponent by her enemies.

She is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives and is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques.

She was the formidable Miss Coral in the film version of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and later was cast as Aidan Quinn's grandmother in the television production of An Early Frost for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

She did keep her eyes open but she became pale after seeing the formidable form of the Sage.

She was initially considered a formidable challenger, but her campaign floundered — in ads, Martin poked fun at Simon's trademark bow-tie, but the humorous ad campaign was seen by some as petty and mean-spirited — and Simon won with 65 percent of the vote, carrying all but two counties in the state ; Edwards County in the southeast and McHenry County outside Chicago in the heart of the district Martin represented for most of the 1980s.

She was considered a formidable candidate for US Senate in 1958 against the much younger John F. Kennedy, but decided not to run.

She tried to break through the wall, but Stevens ' coldness was too formidable.

She had been a rising star and formidable organiser in the run-up to 1997, seen as the key party official responsible for the record landslide victory, but her fearsome style did not endear her to Party members and the left.

She lined up next for the Irish Champion Stakes in a rematch with Alexander Goldrun from Goodwood, and the additional threat of Dylan Thomas, the Budweiser Irish Derby winner, coming from the formidable trio of Magnier, Aidan O ' Brien and Fallon.

She is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, and skilled in various martial arts, and she is an expert markswoman, swordswoman, and gymnast.

She agrees to his hastily-scheduled wedding ( held during an underwater concert ) and quickly proves to be more than a match for Serge's formidable libido.

She also had formidable mezzo-soprano capability, which she displayed in performances as Ortrud in Lohengrin and Klytemnestra in Elektra.

She was still broke, still being conned by errant family members, still one of life's noisy malcontents, but not the formidable force she once was.

She was in Frederic Raphael's The Glittering Prizes ( 1976 ), played Connie, the head of a battling South London family in the thirteen-part drama Fox ( 1980 ) and was the formidable Nan in the ITV comedy series Shine On Harvey Moon ( 1982 – 85 ).

She is a formidable leader and leaves an indelible mark on The Salvation Army.