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 learns how to relax them to accept -- instead of contracting them to repel -- the entering object.

She came to New York from Detroit as a teenager, but with a `` sponsor '' instead of a chaperone.

She excluded her young son from power, entrusting it instead to Alexios the prōtosebastos ( a cousin of Alexios II ), who was popularly believed to be her lover.

" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.

She considered the name " Peabodyville ", but " Albion " was selected instead, after the former residence of Jesse Crowell.

She is unpopular among peers and disliked by teachers for asking " why " instead of " how " and focusing on nature rather than on technology.

She briefly develops a psychic shadow form like Psylocke's, with a gold Phoenix emblem over her eye instead of the Crimson Dawn mark possessed by Psylocke, Jean briefly lost her telekinesis to Psylocke during this exchange, but her telekinetic abilities later came back in full at a far stronger level than before.

She looks at herself instead of looking at you, and so doesn't know you.

She never played Desirée in the theater ; instead, she used the beautiful lyrics and melody to create a major pop hit.

She is credited with introducing the fork to Western Europe-chronographers mention the astonishment she caused when she " used a golden double prong to bring food to her mouth " instead of using her hands as was the norm.

She believes all that she reads instead of putting her mind to listing all the great deeds women have accomplished.

" She had received no anesthesia for the procedure and reportedly chose instead to bite down on a bullet, as she had seen Civil War soldiers do when their limbs were amputated.

She relied instead on a variety of lighting effects to reinforce mood ; actors seemed to come out of darkness and return to darkness.

She was given an English name, Ælfgifu, which was used instead of her Norman name on formal occasions or on charters.

She starred in a series of her own for 2007, Damages ( also on FX ) instead of continuing her character on The Shield.

She wished instead for the rest of the royal family to accompany her.

She was now officially Queen Mother, though she did not use that title and was instead known as Her Majesty Queen Mary.

She argued instead for an ' eyes on the street ' approach to town planning, and the resurrection of main public space precedents, such as streets and squares, in the design of cities.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

She fought for 12 years and gained high merit, but she refused any reward and retired to her hometown instead.

She hypothesized that " eh " did not function as a clarification device as frequently believed, but instead served as a means of establishing solidarity between individuals of similar ethnic descent.

She was forced to wear ship instead of tack and the leading Spanish vessel came close enough to threaten her with a broadside.

She even asked Joseph Stalin directly why he had slaughtered so many Russians, but many of her criticisms were translated into innocuous statements instead, leading many of her conservative supporters to fear she had " gone soft " on Communism.

She moved to the United States as a teenager, first studying to become a stockbroker, but after taking some abandoned kittens to a shelter in 1969, and appalled by the conditions she found there, she chose a career in animal protection instead.

She was not interested at first and instead asked to have her short stories collected.