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 publicly opposed the proposed free trade agreement of the European Economic Community ( EEC, later European Union ) in 1973, by signing a petition along with 500 other more-or-less prominent social democrats and socialists.

She endorsed Al Gore publicly during 2000.

She critiqued the Modernism of CIAM, and asserted that the publicly unowned spaces created by the ' city in the park ' notion of Modernists was one of the main reasons for the rising crime rate.

She soon began practicing the songs of his repertoire and performing them publicly.

She publicly blamed her husband for forcing her to retire ; for example, in a speech commemorating her 25 years in parliament she stated that her retirement was forced on her and that it should please the men of Britain.

She publicly endorsed General Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War and admired Vichy leader Marshal Philippe Pétain, translating some of the latter's speeches into English.

She has repeatedly publicly supported candidates identified with her Socialist Left faction.

She was condemned for a visit by the liberal, western, Jewish philosopher Isaiah Berlin in 1946, and Official Andrei Zhdanov publicly labelled her " half harlot, half nun ", her work " the poetry of an overwrought, upper-class lady ", her work the product of " eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference ".

She never spoke publicly on the subject.

She was paired with veteran producer Mick Glossop, whom she later publicly derided.

She focused on investigative journalism and gained prominence after an in-depth study of the McCain family's business practices led a Senator to publicly accuse her of being un-naturalised.

She gets what she wants, but what she wants is not anything that the normal usually admit, publicly at least, to be desirable.

She never exhibited any lack of self-assurance, any timidity in her relations with that society outside of whose conventions she quite publicly existed .... he looked absolutely straight into the eyes of whomever she confronted and during that golden time in which we were dear friends, I never heard a false word from her mouth.

She says she took the habit of clasping her hands behind her back to curb excessive hand gesturing while speaking publicly.

She never spoke of Valentino publicly, turning away reporters on the 25th anniversary of his death and threatening to sue if an upcoming picture about him had a caricature of her in it.

She has publicly defended him against the criticism he receives over the amount of money he is paid by RTÉ.

She did not find out about Peng's death until she was allowed to return to Beijing, in 1978, when the news was first publicly disclosed.

She has stated publicly and with amusement that the Internet has a growing " snowball " of claims that she had been part of a kibbutz in Israel, whereas she was merely on a typical Israeli youth program that visited the kibbutz.

She also publicly denied that her son planned to marry Leonore Lemmon, because he had never told her.

She declined to publicly discuss the relationship or her sexual orientation at the time.

She performed publicly from the age of six.

She divorced her first husband, Harold Everett Reed, when he was publicly reported as gay by the Denver local gay newspaper, OutFront.

) She was publicly belittled by Via Rail Chief Executive Officer Jean Pelletier in national media on February 27, 2004.

She was publicly stoned to death by the astonished crowd, and according to the legend, removed from the Vatican archives.

She was tortured but refused to admit her involvement in the plot, but they found incriminating documents and a few days later she was publicly beheaded in her home village, Shanyin, at the age of 31.