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 has composed over 3, 000 songs, the best known of which include " I Will Always Love You " ( a two-time U. S. country chart-topper for Parton, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston ), " Jolene ", " Coat of Many Colors ", " 9 to 5 ", and " My Tennessee Mountain Home ".

She lost her first round match 6 – 4, 6 – 0 to Tracy Austin, a two-time US Open champion and former World No. 1 player.

She is an Olympic gold medalist, seven-time gold medalist at the World Championships, and two-time overall Alpine Skiing World Cup champion.

She is a two-time Grammy Award winner noted for her distinctive raspy vocal style.

She is a former chair of the Libertarian Party of North Carolina and is a two-time Gubernatorial candidate.

She won the Belfast International Cross Country twice consecutively in 1992 and 1993, became the 1994 Eurocross champion, and was also a two-time winner of Cross Internacional de Itálica ( one of Spain's most prestigious meetings ).

She is a two-time Olympian in track and field ; in 2004 in the 5, 000m and in 2000 in the 1, 500m.

She is a 2004 Olympic Trials 100 m Champion ; two-time U. S. 400 m champion (’ 00, ’ 01 ); World Record Holder, 4 x 200 m relay ; 1994 USA Juniors champion ( 100 H ); 2nd, 1994 World Junior Champs ( 100 H ).

She transformed herself from a junior hurdles champion to a two-time US champion at 400 m. In 2003, she shifted gears by concentrating on the 100 m and in 2004 she won the US Olympic Trials over the short sprint.

She is the daughter of two-time ARCA Champion Bill Venturini.

She was the first two-time winner of the prestigious Wade Trophy, a national " player of the year " award in college women's basketball, and was selected as the Broderick Award winner for basketball as the top women's player in America.

She helped lead Purdue to a NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1999 and was a two-time Kodak All-America in 2000 and 2001, as well as being named to the 1999 and 2001 NCAA Women's Final Four All-Tournament Team.

She is a two-time American women's chess champion and, as of October 2007, has a FIDE rating of 2322.

She was the Women's World Sub-Champion, two-time winner of the U. S. Women's Chess Championship and author of two books which describe her life in chess as well as the sufferings of her abusive childhood.

She may be most famous for her two-time Emmy Award-winning role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun.

She was a four-year starter, three-time captain and two-time Academic All-American for the women's basketball team.

She faced two-time ASB Classic champion and No. 7 seed, Eleni Danilidou, in the opening round and was beaten.

She had to learn to ice skate for the film and was trained by Olympic choreographer and two-time Emmy winner Sarah Kawahara.

She finished her collegiate career as a two-time All-American and four-time All-SEC selection, and averaged 18. 1 points, 7. 2 rebounds and 3. 6 assists during her four seasons with the Alabama Crimson Tide.

She is a three-time César Award winner ( 1977, 1996, 2002 ), a two-time Molière Award winner, a BAFTA nominee, and a recipient of several international prizes including the Volpi Cup ( Best actress ) at the 1965 Venice Film Festival for Three Rooms in Manhattan.

She is a two-time individual World Champion in the combined ( 1997 ) and downhill ( 1999 ), and has won a total of 9 World Championships medals.