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 served as president of the New York branch.

She is the president of Brockovich Research & Consulting, a consulting firm.

She organizes and attends official ceremonies and functions of state either along with, or in place of, the president.

She studied at St Paul's Girls ' School, read history at Somerville College, Oxford, England, and became the first female president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society.

She served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1960.

She held various positions in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, notably president in 1975 and chair of the executive committee of the board of directors in 1976.

She defeated Fianna Fáil's Brian Lenihan and Fine Gael's Austin Currie in the 1990 presidential election becoming, as an Independent candidate nominated by the Labour Party, the Workers ' Party and independent senators, the first elected president in the office's history not to have had the support of Fianna Fáil.

She formally endorsed Senator John McCain, then the presumptive Republican party nominee, for president on March 25.

She attained fame as the first African-American woman appointed as a United States Federal judge, the first African-American woman elected to the New York State Senate and the first woman to serve as Manhattan borough president.

She was educated at Stradbroke Primary and Pembroke School and, later, the University of Adelaide where she graduated B. A .. She was active in student politics, becoming president of the Students ' Association of the University of Adelaide ( SAUA ) and serving as state women's officer for the National Union of Students in South Australia.

She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP ; and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a new minister in town who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement.

She stepped down as president of the Girl Guides in 1920 in favor of Robert's wife Olave Baden-Powell, who was named Chief Guide ( for England ) in 1918 and World Chief Guide in 1930.

She easily won her party's nomination, and eventually got 40 % of the votes in the first round of the presidential elections, and 51. 6 % in the second, thus defeating the Centre Party's Esko Aho and becoming the 11th president of Finland.

She remained extremely popular among many ANC supporters, and, in December 1993 and April 1997, she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, though she withdrew her candidacy for ANC Deputy President at the movement's Mafikeng conference in December 1997.

She served as president until her death in 2006.

She was also the president or patron of numerous organisations, such as the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre, and the London Lighthouse ( an AIDS charity that has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust ).

She attended Oakland High School, where she was elected vice president of her senior class ; she graduated with exemplary grades in May 1896.

She later became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ( the NUWSS ), a position she held from 1890 until 1919.

She retains her heavy involvement in the military aspect of her rule, especially when she asserts herself as “ the president of kingdom will / Appear there for a man .” Where the dominating power lies is up for interpretation, yet there are several mentions of the power exchange in their relationship in the text.

She chose the name " Abigail Van Buren " because she was inspired by the Bible and a president.

She was formerly president of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France and a member of the Prix Femina jury.

She was very active as the president of the Dutch Red Cross and worked closely with the National Reconstruction organization.

She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Psychological Association, and served as president of the International Association for the Study of Child Language from 1990 to 1993.

She has been active in the Gypsy Lore Society, and served as its president from 1996 to 1999 ; she has also served on the editorial boards of many journals related to language, and as an associate editor of Language.