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 Ernest Hemingway's mentor, and upon the birth of his son he asked her to be the godmother of his child.

She stood as godmother for Matilda of Scotland, who would become Queen of England after marrying Matilda's son Henry I.

She sang at the Carnegie Hall and was backed up by her artistic godmother, legendary Argentinian singer and actress, Libertad Lamarque.

She played Cinderella's fairy godmother in The Slipper and the Rose, which was chosen as the Royal Film Première for 1976.

She is also a godmother, alongside with Victoria Beckham, to Geri Halliwell's daughter Bluebell Madonna Halliwell.

She also held the titles of Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony from birth, as well as a Princess of Teck by marriage, until 1917 when she was commanded to relinquish them by the Letters Patent of George V. She was godmother to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, who was the granddaughter of her first cousin, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

She regularly attended at the services at the church of the Jansenist abbé de Sant-Amour, principal at the Paris University, and godmother of her daughter was the noblewoman de la Roche-Guyon.

She was named for her two grandmothers and for her godmother, Empress Eugénie, the Spanish-born widow of the former Emperor of the French Napoleon III, who lived in exile in the UK.

She was also the godmother of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, the reigning Sovereign Prince of Monaco, the godmother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, and the godmother of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, the Duchess of Alba ( the Duchess with the most noble titles in the world ).

* She was the godmother of Lovin ' Spoonful guitarist John Sebastian, whose mother had been a close friend.

She became our unofficial godmother and every night she'd sing us to sleep ," Shane told journalist Caroline Graham in 2002.

She was a godmother ( by proxy ) at the christening of her niece, Princess Victoria of Kent ( the future Queen Victoria ), in 1819.

She is godmother to Frasier co-star Jane Leeves's daughter Isabella, and Jane is godmother to Peri's daughter Stella.

She became a fairy godmother and " turned to the bad "; interestingly, Granny seems more offended by the fact Lily nonetheless was convinced she was the ' good one '.

She started modeling when she was 13, the same year Aoki was introduced by her godmother to Kate Moss, who would later take the young model under her wing.

She served as Wanda, the main character's ( Timmy's ) godmother.

She was godmother to American actress Ethel Barrymore.

She is godmother to Birdie Leigh Silverstein, the daughter of actress Busy Phillipps and screenwriter Marc Silverstein.

She was the godmother of Marie Antoinette who was born on the same day as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake devastated Lisbon.

She was also godmother to the writer Oriel Malet, and was the subject of Malet's book Marraine: a portrait of my godmother ( 1961 ).