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 seemed so anxious to go on the stage that some of her friends in the cocktail circuit set up a practical joke.

She is the first person to ride up the tower in a one-person " Spider " to prove that the technology is practical.

She supports Lucien, a childlike young man who works for Mr. Collignon, the bullying neighborhood greengrocer ; by playing practical jokes on Collignon, whose confidence she undermines until he questions his own sanity.

She has also written several non-fiction books of practical advice geared toward readers who, like Kidd and Card, are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She loved cartoons as a child and wanted to be a voice actress from the age of eight, but instead chose a " practical " career, feeling she would never be able to realize her ambition.

She is employed as a practical nurse.

She was a practical pacifist in the sense that she helped the war effort by working as a fire warden and by travelling around the country raising funds for the Peace Pledge Union's food relief campaign.

She credits her decision to become a registered nurse as " one of the most practical, wonderful ones I ever made … because, aside from the science, you learn crisis management, decision making, prioritizing …"

She is described as reserved as a public person but energetic and with a taste for practical jokes as a private person.

She also did the practical part of her studies at the newspaper Berlingske Tidende.

She specified in her will that the school should be expanded after her death to include a classical education as well as industrial arts and home economics: "... it being the first object of this Institution to furnish its students with the means of living an independent, industrious and useful life by the aid of a practical knowledge of the useful arts and sciences.

She is the spinster daughter of a reclusive scholar, who left her to deal with practical issues such as shopping and administering the household while he spent time in his office.

She can be said to have made three reputations in the course of her long life: as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist.

She also noted that reading the statute to require some proof of actual damages would have little practical effect.

She was described as cold, practical and frugal.

She made her first film appearance in 1934, and the numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse ; in a wonderfully comedic moment, her character in Carry On Girls discovers that someone has played a practical joke on her, waving her underwear from a flagpole.

She told peers that she disagreed on a " practical basis as well as a principled one ".

She was the daughter of Christopher Sholes, the man who invented the first practical typewriter.

She was said to contribute to the forming of Sigma Kappa with her practical ideas and nature.

She sold her rights to the cordless phone in 1968 to a manufacturer who modified it for practical use.

She commands Blackadder to carry out a variety of tasks, some important ( such as appointing Blackadder as the Lord High Executioner in " Head ") and some petty ( such as repeatedly summoning Blackadder to her only for it to turn out as a childish practical joke designed to extract money from him in " Money ").

She described the book as a practical exercise in empowering people.

She was a member and office-bearer of the National Council of Women of Canada, in which she advanced practical schemes for the promotion of the industrial and fine arts in Canada, and establishment of a Department of Art.

She has extendable claws, though these are just for show and not practical weapons.