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 felt that as the daughter of the sovereign of Austria, one of the allied members, she would be treated with respect by Allied forces, with the possibility of her son succeeding the throne should Napoleon be deposed.

She was the third daughter and fifth child of the deposed Robert I, Duke of Parma and his second wife, Maria Antonia of Portugal, a daughter of king Miguel of Portugal and Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg.

She is the oldest member of the deposed Muhammad Ali Dynasty residing in Egypt.

She would retain the attribute of Royal Highness consistent with the tradition that conferred that style, for example, upon descendants of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg as a result of her 1919 marriage to HRH Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma ( member of a deposed dynasty that descends agnatically from the royal House of Bourbon and once reigned over the kingdom of Etruria ).

She also thought she would be created empress, particularly after Empress Bo was deposed in 151 BC, following Grand Empress Dowager Bo's death.

She overrode Theophilus ' ecclesiastical policy and summoned a council under the patriarch Methodius, in which the veneration, but not worship, of icons ( images of Jesus Christ and the saints ) was finally restored and the iconoclastic clergy deposed.

She later worked as a secretary and joined the 1968 presidential campaign of Arnulfo Arias ; Arias had already served two partial terms as president, both times being deposed by the Panamanian military.

She took a close interest in the well-being of several abbeys, and as overseer of Barking Abbey she deposed and later reinstated the abbess.

She was deposed with her spouse in 1809 ; she and her children were first kept at Haga.

She said that the throne already had an heir in the deposed King's son.

She was deposed as Chief Minister in 1990, but returned to office in 1991.

She was deposed by the French on 19 March 1888 but remained the head of the royal house of Bora Bora until her death.

She became Queen regnant of Huahine under the regnal name of Teha ' apapa II after her husband was deposed in 1868.

She died in childbirth while in Constantinople, just a few days before the Sultan was deposed ( 14 April 1807 ), and left Sébastiani a large fortune.

She was crowned with the regnal name Te-ha ' apapa III in 1893, and was deposed when Huahine was annexed by the French in September 1895.

She renounced her United States citizenship but after her husband was deposed she requested that it be restored, which it apparently was via private bill.

She was christened as namesake of her paternal grandmother, Isabel of Braganza, elder daughter and heiress of the deposed Emperor, Pedro II of Brazil.

She was the eldest daughter of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden and Princess Sophie of Sweden, daughter of the deposed King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden.

She was the first wife of Emperor Wu of Han, but was deposed in 130 BC.

She died about 20 years after she was deposed, but the exact year is not known.

She was deposed for this misconduct against imperial moral standards, but Consort Wei was not made empress at this time, because she too was sonless like the other concubines.

She took over from the stilled Siuan after leading the coup which deposed her, and had the Blue Ajah removed from representation in the Tower, though most members of the Blue, along with many Aes Sedai from all Ajahs except Red, made good their escape anyway.

She was one of the most influential Croatian female politicians during the communist period, especially during the Croatian Spring when she was deposed.

She did not give up hope of returning to Denmark and seeing her ex-husband deposed, but her indiscreet behaviour dismayed her brother, and he was reluctant to have her back in England, even if she had been willing to return.