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 encountered a typhoon on the way back from a goodwill visit to Japan in 1890.

She undertook many missions of goodwill to foreign nations as well.

She is also a goodwill ambassador for UNESCO, and heads the Islamic Organization for Higher Education.

She is the goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme.

" She also spoke out against European slave trade in Africa ( Key to Theosophy 3 ), the Caste System ( SD I: 270 ) and often laid stress on " kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to one's self " ( The First Message of HPB ).

She believed her work was done on behalf of the " spiritual hierarchy " of advanced beings, that included Djwal Khul, whose sole interest was to guide humanity towards the establishing of goodwill and right human relations, the vital first steps that would help prepare the way for the " Reappearance of the Christ " ( called by Theosophists The Maitreya ).

She serves in the honorary position of ambassador for the program leading the federal government's effort to give women a " wake up call " about the risk of heart disease.

She established an excellent rapport with the French ambassador, Gilles de la Pommeraie.

She told the Venetian ambassador in June 1568 that all one could expect from Huguenots was deceit, and she praised the Duke of Alba's reign of terror in the Netherlands, where Calvinists and rebels were put to death in the thousands.

She became an ambassador for the Silversea Cruise Line, which has her appearing in print ads and on their website.

She was an heiress to the Crane piping, valves and elevator fortune, the former wife of Robert Leatherbee, a daughter of Charles R. Crane, a U. S. minister to China, and a sister of Richard Teller Crane II, a U. S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia.

She was the first woman to be appointed an American ambassador to an Arab country.

She was the only daughter of chemicals heiress and philanthropist Peggy Zinsser ( d. 1992 ) and politician Lewis W. Douglas ( d. 1974 ) who served as Arizona congressman, director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1933 until 1934, and U. S. ambassador to the Court of St. James's from 1947 until 1950.

She is married to Allan Gotlieb, former Canadian ambassador to the United States during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

She travelled with her husband in his capacity as Romanian ambassador, first to Washington ( 1920 – 1926 ) and then to Madrid ( 1927 – 1931 ).

She was sent by Elaida as an ambassador to the Tarasin Palace in Ebou Dar.

She was christened at Marlborough House on 6 August 1868 by Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, and her godparents were: her paternal grandmother Queen Victoria ( for whom The Duchess of Cambridge stood proxy ), The Emperor of Russia ( for whom the Russian ambassador Philipp, Graf de Brunnow, stood proxy ), The Tsarevitch of Russia, The Prince Arthur ( her paternal uncle ), Prince Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine ( her father's brother-in-law ), Prince George of Hesse-Cassel ( her mother's great-uncle ), her mother's sister-in-law The Queen of Greece ( for whom The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz stood proxy ), The Dowager Queen of Denmark, The Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the Queen's cousin Princess Francis of Teck and Princess Frederick Augustus of Anhalt-Dessau.

She was reportedly engaged in 2001 to Crispin Conroy, the former Australian ambassador to Nepal, but they broke up later.

She has also been a cultural ambassador for the U. S .; for instance, she was invited to play in North Korea's capital, Pyongyang, with a South Korean orchestra in 2002.

She became famous for singing pop music, but later in her career became something of a cultural ambassador for her community, both in Israel and internationally.

She eventually seduces the Russian ambassador into betraying valuable military secrets by offering him among other things " the most scrumptious little breasts " as well as something ( left unsaid ) which she declares to be the " softest, moistest, sweetest ".

She was a member of the administration of President Bill Clinton, serving as deputy secretary of education of the United States from 1993 until 1997, when she became the ambassador to her native Switzerland, as well as to Liechtenstein.

She served as an ambassador for UNICEF.

She also delivered a letter to the Japanese ambassador calling for the end of Japan's hunting of whales.

She is a cultural ambassador for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.

She has been the brand ambassador for Pril soap, Surya bulbs and tubes, Omega watches, Dr. Morepen, Dabur, Vi-John Group etc in Maharashtra and Kalyana Kanchi in Andhra Pradesh.

She also feels that it is harder to find a good doctor for a small Kansas town than an ambassador to a foreign country.

She is a missionary for World Vision, an organisation which combats AIDS, an ambassador for Doctors Without Borders in Sudan, and devotes time to UNICEF.

She is currently brand ambassador for the new Orbit gum Complete detox guide to teeth and mouth and a model for Avon.

She served as the Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the U. S. Department of State with the rank of ambassador.