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 dismissed the possibility that other countries might try to seize her territories and immediately started ensuring the imperial dignity for herself ; since a woman could not be elected Holy Roman Empress, Maria Theresa wanted to secure the imperial office for her husband.

She dismissed questions about her husband, Jacob, who, like her father, worked for the Indianapolis-St. Louis Railroad, by saying, " We never speak of him.

She knows the anxiety of feeling threatened by everything in her surroundings, and of being dismissed and feared, which motivates her work in humane livestock handling processes.

She also felt that the television writing was often below standard and dismissed many of the Bewitched scripts as " hack " in a 1965 interview.

She quit in February 2006 along with other members of the cast amidst rumors of abuse from the producer ( which were later dismissed ).

The famous feminist, Gloria Steinem at one point stated, “ you became a semi-nonperson when you got married .” She also famously coined the expression ' A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle ,' Steinem dismissed marriage in 1987 as not having a ' good name.

She firmly dismissed rumours that had persisted for 30 years that she was a lesbian, that had started after she interviewed rock musician Joan Armatrading in 1978, saying that this was not true and had probably dissuaded men from approaching her.

She filed in the Chancery Court in Pulaski County seeking nullification of the law and an injunction against her being dismissed for teaching the evolutionary curriculum.

She represented a dismissed mother-to-be in an early pregnancy discrimination case ( Brown v Stockton Upon Tees Borough Council ) in the House of Lords.

During the worst times of the war of the Spanish Succession she was the real head of the Bourbon party, and was well aided by Princess Maria Luisa of Savoy, the spirited young queen of Philip V. She did not hesitate to quarrel even with such powerful personages as the Cardinal Archbishop of Toledo, Portocarrero, when they proved hostile, but she was so far from offending the pride of the nation, that when in 1709 Louis the XIV, severely pressed by the allies, threatened, or pretended, to desert the cause of his grandson, she dismissed all Frenchmen from the court and threw the king on the support of the Castilians.

She dismissed Galliano's statements as " theater " and later, in a phone interview with WWD described Galliano ’ s videotaped behavior as “ farce ” and said she was bewildered that people in the fashion community have not recognized it as such.

She dismissed Galliano's rants as " theatre.

She was president and CEO of Hydro One, the intended private successor to Ontario Hydro till she was dismissed amid an expense account scandal.

She was dismissed from her ministerial post by the Prime Minister the same day.

She summarily dismissed him because " he smelt of mothballs.

She insisted that her older sister Madame de Mailly should be dismissed and she herself acknowledged in her place.

She clashed with Sims over her position at the sorority and Sims later dropped the issue and dismissed any claims of racism.

She arrived on the set to find one of the major players in the production had been dismissed, and she was immediately asked to step into the role in her place.

" She dismissed any further claims of her being rude or difficult to work with, explaining to the press that she was initially not used to the American lifestyle, which was in her view more extroverted than the French way of living.

She married the Duke of Marlborough, rose to high favour with the Crown, then fell out with the Queen and was dismissed, but returned to Court after the Queen's death.

She joined the band in Chicago for four weeks of rehearsals in preparation for a four-month tour, but then, the night before the tour was to begin, she was dismissed by Corgan ( via their tour manager ) with no explanation, and the Pumpkins embarked on the tour without her.

She remarks that the body presents strange cuts, but this is dismissed as bad handling by the morgue caretaker.

She dismissed appeal motions in the Gold Reserve case.

She was dismissed under administrative release item 5d: " Not Advantageously Employable Due to Homosexuality ".