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 put a strong hand under the old man's arm and lifted him up, patiently, with the gentle cruelty and necessary tyranny that the young show toward the very old.

" She also called for a sweeping reform of tax and customs administration, the creation of a " strong and independent judicial system " as well as a tough fight against government corruption.

She also alienated the army by extreme parsimony, and neither she nor her son were strong enough to impose military discipline.

She had a strong religious upbringing and developed a faith that would play a major role in later life.

She asserts: " In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness ," and as a result contends that in film a woman is the " bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

She was considered to have a strong case, but was becoming increasingly ill and eventually was persuaded to settle out of court on 2 November 1980.

She finished in fifth in the strong field of ten, ahead of players such as Anatoly Karpov.

She also obtained the backing of the Workers ' Party of Ireland which was strong in Dublin and was considered crucial to getting working class votes.

She had a strong influence on her husband and played a role in a few of his personnel and diplomatic decisions.

She had a strong matriarchal influence on Stephen during his early years.

She usually highlighted at least one strong secondary character who faced discrimination ethnically or for other reasons ; through this technique, Ferber demonstrated her belief that people are people and that the not-so-pretty persons have the best character.

She inherited a relatively strong kingdom, but the centrifugal tendencies fostered by the great nobles were far from being quelled.

She doesn't seem to have strong opinions of her own and is kind of the third wheel of her group.

She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong, realistic screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang, and Frank Capra.

She greatly admired her mother's strong faith.

She remains one of the most popular Russian monarchs due to her strong opposition to Prussian policies and her abstinence from executing a single person during her reign.

She was portrayed as strong, fair, merciful, and chaste.

She had a strong influence on Mary King and Lucinda Green amongst others.

She was renowned for her intelligence and strong character, and her uncensored and liberal court attracted a great many scholars, including philosopher Gottfried Leibniz.

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 has no eyes, legs, wings, antennae, and can't eat, but she emits a strong pheromone to attract a mate.

She had taken a strong role as queen to her husband and was well experienced in the administration of her kingdom by the time she became pharaoh.

She would move her head just a little bit and the whole screen would come alive, like a strong breeze that made itself felt.

She spent much time in bed at home amusing herself with painting books and a nursery library that included the works of Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott – two artists who exerted strong influences on her later art.

She exercised a strong selectivity for the pieces – including only 35 of the 200 poems she had written by the end of 1911.