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 finds favor in the king's eyes, and is made his new queen.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

She is said to be the wife of Odin, and is the " foremost among the goddesses " and the queen of Asgard.

She is the wife of Zeus and the queen of the Olympians.

She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).

She was described as the most beautiful queen in Europe, and, as her daughter later said, had " all the virtues and vices " associated with her gender.

She was baptized into the Lutheran faith and named after her kinswoman Marie Sophie Fredrica of Hesse-Kassel, Queen Dowager of Denmark as well as the medieval Danish queen, Dagmar of Bohemia.

She was a granddaughter of the Elisabeth aforementioned, mother of the Jagiellonians, queen of Poland, who had claimed the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1460s as being the younger daughter of the last Luxembourg heiress Elisabeth of Luxembourg, Queen of Bohemia.

She was also the niece of the famous queen of Jehangir-Nur Mahal.

She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.

She beseeches them to defend and protect the city and to follow their queen ( the virgin Mary ).

She returned to England in early 1522, in order to marry her Irish cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond ; however, the marriage plans ended in failure and she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's queen consort, Catherine of Aragon.

She determined that she would yield to his embraces only as his acknowledged queen.

She was expected by tradition to spend money on her attire, so as to outshine other women at Court, being the leading example of fashion in Versailles ( the previous queen, Maria Leszczyńska, had died in 1768, two years prior to Marie Antoinette's arrival ).

She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter's execution for trumped up charges of high treason, incest and adultery in May 1536.

She was the last queen consort of Ireland and empress consort of India.

She was also the most-married English queen, as she had a total of four husbands.

She points to a surviving chess queen representing the Virgin, as well as medieval poetry depicting the Virgin as the chess-queen of God or Fierce Dieu ,.

She eventually was crowned queen on 4 March 1330 at Westminster Abbey when she was almost six months pregnant ; and she gave birth to her first son, Edward, the following June just nine days before her sixteenth birthday.

She was educated in drawing, painting, music and dancing – the disciplines which would have prepared her for the role of queen consort.

She used the title of Lady of the English and planned to assume the title of queen upon coronation ( the custom which was followed by her grandsons, Richard and John ).

She was crowned queen in an elaborate ceremony on 9 October at Westminster Abbey in London.

She and Sophia Charlotte developed a strong relationship in which Caroline was treated as a surrogate daughter ; the queen once declared Berlin was " a desert " without Caroline whenever she left temporarily for Ansbach.

She was the first queen consort to be crowned since Anne of Denmark in 1603.