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 is reputed to have met with Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1593.

She is reputed to have commented after he was threatened with disciplinary action following the straining of his ship's engines, " What?

She was reputed to be hideously ugly.

She was reputed to be Shaw's favourite actress of the time.

She is reputed to haunt the castle.

She is reputed either to have run a brothel in that town or worked as a hierodule in the Temple of Venus.

She is a woman reputed to be of unquestionable leadership, which the people regarded as their adopted parent, leader and protector.

She was acquainted with the novelist Olivia Manning and is reputed to be the character of ' Mrs Brett ' in Olivia Manning's Balkan Trilogy ' Fortunes of War '.

She is reputed to have said that in view of her Protestant upbringing, she feared that a plea on behalf of the Huguenots might lead her enemies to claim that she was still a secret Protestant.

She is reputed to have had a liaison, while still formally a nun, with the Irish exile soldier Arthur Dillon.

She was his second wife, and is reputed in the gossip of the time to have been previously the mistress of Lord Wharton, " whose character was so infamous, and his lady's complaisant subserviency so notorious, that no young woman could be four and twenty hours under their roof with safety to her reputation.

She is reputed to appear clad in a full-length brown dress with a large white collar Sir Walter Scott wrote a poem about her.

She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father and first president of Bangladesh and widow of a reputed nuclear scientist, M. A. Wazed Miah.

She was reputed to be " ugly ," but attentive and pious.

She was also reputed to have had an affair with Lord Palmerston, although there is no firm proof.

She declined to run for governor in 2006 even though she was reputed to be Bush's preferred choice as his successor.

She gathered a group of followers in Irvine ( North Ayrshire ), where they are reputed to have practised behaviour that contravened social norms as they prepared to ascend en bloc at short notice to Heaven.

She has successfully taught in many reputed art departments throughout the Los Angeles area and abroad, including the University of Southern California, the Claremont Graduate University and Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles.

She is reputed to have been a beautiful, impressive woman, praised for the welfare, her care for the poor ( regardless of religion ) and her works for the Jewish community in Hechingen.

She was a member of the main jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, among other reputed international film festivals.