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 is adept at skeet shooting, trout fishing, Afro-Cuban and Oriental dancing and Southwestern archaeology.

She, more than anyone else, was adept at understanding the complex and demanding personality of the king.

She is adept at designing mechanised weapons, but also appreciates the nobility of what she describes as more ' primitive ' combat.

She says she does not have the necessary power to be a witch, but is adept at researching demons and other occult topics to assist Giles and Buffy.

She was also adept in pipa and master all the Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar – Guqin, Weiqi, Calligraphy and Chinese painting.

She is also highly adept at ' Borrowing ' – the art of overlaying her mind on the mind of another creature so that she can see through its eyes and steer its actions without it being aware of her presence – and can tune her mind to the point that she can sense the underlying mood of her surroundings ( including the mood of plants, animals and the earth ) and the presence of ' stories ' that are trying to play themselves out.

She also proves herself adept at playing the role of Lucrezia Mongfish in the popular Heterodyne plays performed by Master Payne's Circus, an irony which is not lost on her or Krosp, though she keeps her real identity secret from the other members of the Circus.

She is very adept at disguising herself, which is a useful skill used for cat burglary.

She herself was an adept player of the harpsichord and loved to read.

She also mentions their great compassionate help for humanity and such lesser powers of the adept as being able to take active control of elemental spirits as well as the physical and astral ( conditions of non-adepts.

She was equally adept at etching, drawing, watercolor and oil painting.

She thought Ai Lin refused her more active participation because she was less adept.

She studied at the Actors Studio in New York and at the Traphagen School of Fashion Design, where she became adept at designing.

She possesses a six-octave vocal range and is adept at using the whistle register.

She is an intelligent and shrewd young woman, and despite being only sixteen, she is manipulative and adept at political intrigue.

She appears to be a pacifist, though she is quite adept at fighting if required.

She was also adept at painting miniatures in watercolor on ivory.

She is also very adept in hand to hand combat.

She was adept at imitating foreign accents when the role required it.

She is arguably one of the most magically adept characters in the entire game.

She is also a precociously talented con artist, adept at using a sweet, innocent façade to mask her true self from adults so they will give in to her.

She is adept at archery.

She proved herself to be equally adept both at comedy and at drama.

She was also known for being unusually adept at testifying and persuading juries, thus obtaining convictions.