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 feared for her husband's health and his career as a whole, though she felt that he was the right man for the job and eventually approved.

She lived there until the New York State Emancipation Act was approved a year later.

She approved the location, so he convinced his father to put up the money.

She wrote that only the very conservative Human Events reported that the Immigration and Naturalization Service had approved his working legally while applying for temporary protected status.

She also incurred some criticism from some of the Irish Catholic hierarchy by taking communion in an Anglican ( Church of Ireland ) Cathedral in Dublin on 7 December 1997, although 78 percent of Irish people approved of her action in a following opinion poll.

She nevertheless remained an outstanding pianist all her life, and often played duets with her friend Frédéric Chopin, who approved of her arranging some of his mazurkas as songs, and even assisted her in this.

She was in Paris when the news of Napoleon's landing arrived and at once fled to Coppet, but a singular story, much discussed, is current of her having approved Napoleon's return.

She waged a long campaign to have the rose declared the official flower of the United States, which Congress eventually approved in 1987.

" She later sponsored the Accountability in Government Contracting Act of 2007, approved unanimously by the Senate, which would create more competition between military contractors.

She approved the building of new homes and businesses in Walker, Newcastle, in a bid to regenerate the area.

She Recognized Scouter, a development that his lifemate, Dewshine, approved of.

She also approved of controversial covers from a new crop of artists, including Edward Sorel's October 1992 cover that had people buzzing about the meaning of a punk rock passenger sprawled in the backseat of an elegant horse-drawn carriage: was it Brown's self mocking riposte to fears she would downgrade the magazine?

She is a regular advisor to the WHO, and is currently leading the designation of a new WHO Collaborating Centre for Nutrition ( to be approved later this year ).

She voted against declaring English the official language of the United States and in 1996 against a bill overwhelmingly approved by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton, to combat illegal immigration.

She immediately approved.

She increased the student representation on the Universities ' Boards of Governors and approved the University of Manitoba's Student Union's Pathways to Excellence brief to the provincial government.

She never approved of Ken's marriage to Vicky ; in fact, she sees it as a result of a Gypsy curse on her family.

She was rapporteure for a draft report on the social status of artists in Europe, approved by a large majority in June 2007.

She remembers the conversation she has with her father asking if she approved of his marriage to Cheryl.

She received an Individualized Education Plan ( IEP ) approved by the school board.

She was not allowed to have any friends, and if she was caught talking to people not approved by Livia, she was punished.

She consulted frequently with the then Attorney General James Jeffords, who provided crucial guidance in the editing and perfecting Act 250 until it reached its final approved form.

" She stated that her blog entries were always approved by ABC executives before they were posted to the Internet.