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 was apparently the pioneer in her family because she had no close relatives in this country at that time.

She was also a pioneer campaigner for women's rights.

She was a pioneer for Muslim and Arabic athletes in that she confounded long-held beliefs that women of such backgrounds could not succeed in athletics.

She is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.

She was the daughter of English-born naturalist and pioneer of the Boy Scouts of America, Ernest Thompson Seton and Grace Gallatin Seton.

She was personally acquainted with prominent men and women of pioneer days and named one of her children after General Sam Houston in memory of his victory at San Jacinto.

She was a television pioneer, performing in teleplays in three decades, spanning the late 1940s through the late 1960s, in such programs as The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre ( 1949 ), Pulitzer Prize Playhouse ( 1951 ), Lux Video Theatre ( 1951 – 1955 ), The Outer Limits ( 1964 ) and even an episode of The Flying Nun in 1969.

She cut her income and expenses to the bare minimum, and lived a modern-day version of her ancestors ' pioneer life on her rural land near Danbury, Connecticut.

She was born in a log cabin that was the home of her maternal grandfather, Walter Raleigh McCullough, a Scots-Irish pioneer.

She was an active member of the America First Committee, an anti-intervention organization founded by retired General Robert E. Wood with aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh as its leading spokesman.

She was close to 50 when she married Hugh Le Caine, Canadian physicist and pioneer electronic musician.

She was not just a pioneer of the environmental movement, she was a prophet, calling out to us to save the environment for our children and our grandchildren.

She was a pioneer in the realist novel.

" She continued to write poems as she crossed the plains, documenting the pioneer trail and life in Utah.

She is best known for her work in robotics where she is recognized as a pioneer of Social Robotics and Human Robot Interaction.

She is widely known as a pioneer in women's, and to a somewhat lesser extent men's, sexual liberation, having sold more than 1 million copies of her first book, Sex for One.

She was a pioneer for women in science ; she was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

She was a pioneer in social housing with her project in Columbia Square.

She is a renowned pioneer of women's judo, being the first woman promoted to 6th dan ( c. 1972 ), and later 9th dan ( 2006 ), by the Kodokan.

She had the lead female role in the movie Love's Enduring Promise as a pioneer family's oldest child.

She is regarded as a pioneer of the ' chick-lit ' genre ; her stories usually revolve around a strong female character who overcomes numerous obstacles to achieve lasting happiness.

She is considered to be a pioneer ( in the United States ) in the area of Asian nude photography, becoming one of the first fully Asian models to achieve success.

She is considered a pioneer in the resurgence of tap dancing.

She has also served as a pioneer fundraiser for her brother's presidential campaigns.

She was a pioneer in the use of X-rays to study crystals.