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.

) The She ' iltot was influential on both subsequent works.

She was a planter's daughter from Nevis, whose rich and influential uncle, John Herbert, was the President of the Council of Nevis.

She is regarded as one of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, being cited as a mentor to diverse artists such as Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Bette Midler, Madonna, and Dusty Springfield.

She is one of the most influential people whom Xena encountered in her dark days, and possesses various spiritual powers.

She was one of Garfield's more influential teachers and remained close friends with him until her death.

She was influential in Henry's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored both Lady Mary and Lady Elizabeth to the line of succession to the throne.

She is considered by many to be one of the most important francophone writers in Canadian history and one of the most influential Canadian authors.

She took extra lessons from the noted teachers of the day — Christian Johansson, Pavel Gerdt, Nikolai Legat and more especially from Enrico Cecchetti, considered the greatest ballet virtuoso of the time and founder of the Cecchetti method, a very influential ballet technique used up to this day.

She was President of the Victorian Federation of States School Parents ' Clubs, an influential education lobby from 1971 to 1977 and its executive officer from 1978 to 1982.

She became close friends with Boris Pasternak ( who, though married, proposed to her many times ) and rumours began to circulate that she was having an affair with influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok.

She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and an influential matriarch of the House of Tudor.

She was a wealthy and influential woman who often received people, who were visiting Rome.

She was influenced in using native plant species from: her many successful Reef Point experiences ; studying the contemporary books from the U. S. and abroad advocating the advantages of native palettes ; and from visiting the influential British garden authors William Robinson at Gravetye Manor in Sussex, and Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Hall in Surrey, both in England.

She was the most influential goddess throughout the legacy of Greece and was also adopted by Rome as their most important goddess, Fortuna, hence deriving the term, fortune.

She is known exclusively from the work of a single Roman historian, Tacitus, though she appears to have been widely influential in early Roman Britain.

She left Ruskin and, with the support of her family and a number of influential friends, filed for an annulment, causing a major public scandal ; their marriage was annulled in 1854.

She was also a member of the influential Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting from 1960 to 1962.

She was a member of the varsity team and named one of America's " 20 most influential teens " by Teen People magazine.

She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.

She has published widely, including twenty-three volumes of poems, six books of essays, five plays, and numerous influential articles.

She was named one of 2010's 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

She was also named among the Time 100 most influential people in the world for the years 2007 and 2008.

However, four years before the term " power pop " was coined, The Beatles were already recording a series of influential hits that some have retroactively classified as power pop, including " From Me to You ", " She Loves You ", " I Want to Hold Your Hand " and " Can't Buy Me Love ".

She was influential in the decision by the Unitarian Universalist Association to include earth-centered traditions among their sources of faith.