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 honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers on October 18, 2006.

She also joined a host of distinguished comedy stars, including Ian Carmichael and Peter Sellers, in the Boulting Brothers ' satire I'm All Right Jack ( 1959 ).

" She later distinguished between regret over the use of her image as propaganda and pride for her anti-war activism: " There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs.

She is distinguished by bells of eagle down in her hair, a bell symbol on her cheek, and an ear tab showing the Mexica year sign.

She is usually distinguished by being shown carrying ears of maize.

She became a teacher in schools in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York, and then, until about 1852, became a distinguished professional lecturer, conducting, in various Eastern United States cities, classes for women in history and literature by methods she devised.

She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories.

She was inducted into National Women's Hall of Fame in 1998 for " her significant contributions as a distinguished scientist and advocate for education, science, and public policy ".

She was descended on both sides from distinguished Jewish families ; her parents were Abraham Mendelssohn ( who was the son of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and later changed the family surname to Mendelssohn Bartholdy ), and Lea, née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig.

* She left Tasmania for India after her distinguished father died in a hunting accident, and was raised there by aristocratic godparents.

" She continues, " The most influential salonnière was perhaps Madame Geoffrin of the rue Saint-Honore, who managed to attract the largest number of distinguished foreigners to her home.

She served as distinguished centennial lecturer at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, from 1988 to 1992.

She is clearly distinguished from

She spent the next two months in France completing an advanced course in aviation, then left for the Netherlands to meet with Anthony Fokker, one of the world's most distinguished aircraft designers.

'" She wanted to display " the ignorant contented darky — as distinguished from Beecher Stowe's monstrosities.

She is the recipient of many medals, prizes and honours for distinguished work in the humanities and social sciences.

She reversed all Elagabulus ' scandalous policies, chose 16 distinguished senators as advisers and relied heavily on the famous Lawyer Ulpian, who was also from Syria.

During this period, Shandong National University hired distinguished scientists, scholars and literary figures such as Lao She, Wen Yiduo, Shen Congwen, Liang Shiqiu, the nuclear physicist Wang Ganchang ( faculty member from 1934 to 1936 ), and Tong Dizhou.

She intentionally distinguished herself by emphasising her provincial accent during her interrogations.

One of Nadya ’ s friends from gymnasium, Ariadne Tyrkova, described Krupskaya as “ a tall, quiet girl, who did not flirt with the boys, moved and thought with deliberation, and had already formed strong convictions … She was one of those who are forever committed, once they have been possessed by their thoughts and feelings ….” Nadya briefly attended two different secondary schools before finding the perfect fit with Prince A. A. Obolensky's Female Gymnasium, “ a distinguished private girls ’ secondary school in Petersburg .” This education was probably more liberal than most other gymnasiums since it was noted that some of the staff were former revolutionaries.

She also studied at Cambridge University as a Fulbright Scholar and was friends there with Norman Podhoretz, who also went on to a distinguished career in journalism.

She settled in the Château of La Chevrette in the valley of Montmorency, a few miles north of Paris, and there received a number of distinguished visitors.

She distinguished herself in the Mocidade Portuguesa, a militaristic youth movement founded by Dictator Salazar.

She was always distinguished by her passion for the belles-lettres, and was accustomed to do the honours of Scotland to the literary celebrities of the day.