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 has been called " the world's most famous sheep " by sources including BBC News and Scientific American.

She gained wider recognition for her music in the 1986 BBC series The Celts.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

She was portrayed by Ursula Howells in the 1974 BBC miniseries Fall of Eagles.

She was featured in a UFO documentary that Williams did for BBC Radio 4 in April and took part in a field investigation he did in Trout Lake, Washington in August 2008.

She was also portrayed by Brenda Bruce in the 1978 BBC TV series The Devil's Crown, which dramatised the reigns of her son and grandsons.

She collaborated with novelist and playwright Michael Frayn on the BBC programmes Beyond a Joke ( 1972 ) and Making Faces ( 1975 ).

She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.

In 2007, she guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio play I. D .. She played the role of Sybil Ramkin in a BBC radio adaptation of Guards!

She also erroneously refers to her employer as the ' British Broadcasting Company ' ( the C in BBC actually standing for ' Corporation ').

She had a romantic role in the BBC television film Langrishe, Go Down ( 1978 ), with Jeremy Irons and a screenplay by Harold Pinter from the Aidan Higgins novel, directed by David Jones, in which she played one of three spinster sisters living in a fading Irish mansion in the Waterford countryside.

She has narrated various classical music recordings ( notably Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Britten's Canticles-The Heart of the Matter ), and has appeared in numerous BBC Radio broadcasts as well as commercials.

She also did a voice over for the BBC series Posh Nosh as a voice-over usually saying " From the Posh Nosh range ( a faux product ).

She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in the DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred in another two BBC sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.

She was interviewed on her experience of sitting for a portrait for painter Lucian Freud in the BBC series Imagine in 2004.

She was a contestant on the BBC Radio 4 panel game My Word!

She has published numerous comic and satirical novels, and written radio and TV plays for the BBC.

She made her first appearance at the BBC Proms in 1990, and has appeared regularly since.

She has also made a documentary on Delius for BBC Two.

She also appeared in the 2007 Robbie the Reindeer BBC TV animations filmed in aid of Comic Relief.

She appeared opposite Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in the award-winning 1975 television film Love Among the Ruins and had a recurring role as Gran in the BBC comedy series Till Death Us Do Part.

She played Mrs Wembley in the BBC comedy series On the Up, which starred Dennis Waterman and ran from 1990 to 1992.

She was the subject of the 1973 BBC miniseries A Picture of Katherine Mansfield starring Vanessa Redgrave.

She was nominated for BAFTA Awards on five occasions, and won twice, for her work in the film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( 1969 ), and for the television production Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, a BBC Play for Today broadcast in 1973.

She was one of the lead vocalists for The Zimmers, a 40-member band set up as a result of a BBC documentary on the treatment of the elderly.