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 was not empowered to inflict punishment, and when she complained about their behaviour received no support, but was criticised for not being capable.

She criticised and disapproved of many of Joseph's actions.

She was criticised for the lavish display of luxury in her various estates, although her rich family of financiers in many instances gave money to the government and saved the monarchy from bankruptcy.

She has criticised Muslims, for what she sees as their intents to impose their own values on the country.

She also notes that she expects her work will be criticised for not being useful.

She had been criticised for continuing to smoke around her husband while he was undergoing treatment for stage IV throat cancer.

She criticised Galloway for being paid as an MP during the time he was in the Big Brother house.

She was mostly criticised for taking a role of minimal importance, though her performance was generally well received.

She has admitted, however, that the Conservative Party is divided on the issue of devolution, and criticised the current state of devolution in Wales as being " complex and cumbersome ".

She has been contradictory and criticised, because she followed movements that had not developed further in later periods.

She was also criticised for allegedly lacking leadership abilities during ministerial meetings and policy briefing.

She was also criticised for a lack of commitment to the job, switching off her phone after 8 pm every day.

She was also widely criticised for cuts she made as Minister to entitlements for widows and widowers after the death of a spouse.

She however brought up with her hosts the fate of three Chinese journalists recently imprisoned, and criticised the meekness of French entrepreneurs in tackling new markets such as China.

She called a deputation representing the unemployed " an illogical crowd " when they said they wanted work but criticised having to work for charitable aid.

She criticised the plans for terrorism detention as being not " in any way workable " and emphasised the need for all political parties to work together in finding a solution for dealing with terrorism.

She criticised John Dewey's "' disastrous influence.

She has been criticised for not doing enough for the Queensway-Carleton hospital in her riding.

She has frequently criticised the media's coverage of her work-when she won Whitbread, for example, it was the fact that she was a " single mother " who lived outside London that garnered the most attention.

She has received criticism and potential doubts raised over her ability to be an effective center ; the Washington Post criticised her and commented that she " cannot control her size " and that she often ends up " blocking her own players " in practice.

She was again criticised for scooping.

She criticised the military intervention in Afghanistan, where Spanish troops were taking part at the moment, her defence of religious education in schools, and her conviction that gender violence publicity will encourage new cases to happen.

She also criticised a government scheme to give one-to-one tuition to less able pupils, and not more-able students, when considering the lack of women in traditionally-male occupations, and she claimed there was a ' huge reluctance ' to concentrate on top students.

She also criticised Wright who, according to her, by the time she knew him well was " a man with an obsession, and was regarded by many as quite mad and certainly dangerous "; she alleged that he was a disruptive and lazy officer, who as special advisor to the Director had a habit of taking case files that interested him off other officers, failing to return them to their proper place and failing to write up any interviews he conducted.