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 also the author of articles that have been published in the New York Times and Newsweek.

She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede ( 1859 ), The Mill on the Floss ( 1860 ), Silas Marner ( 1861 ), Middlemarch ( 1871 – 72 ), and Daniel Deronda ( 1876 ), most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight.

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing, as well as a contemporary novel, On Strike Against God, and one children's book, Kittatinny.

She lives with fellow author Russ Rymer.

She hired lawyer Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur, and filed a suit demanding that Marshall pay her $ 20, 000 for libel.

She received nineteen Locus Awards for her fiction, more than any other author.

She confessed that her husband himself was the author of the work.

She is the world's 18th most translated author and has sold roughly 145 million copies worldwide.

She is the author of the book Cults in Our Midst.

She became acquainted with her husband, the poet and author Johann Christoph Gottsched, when she sent him some of her own works.

She is best known as the author of the Moomin books.

She is the author of several books, including Life and Other Punctures, an account of bicycling in France and Holland on an early Moulton bicycle ; and Cedric Price Retriever, an inventory of the contents of the bookshelves of her partner, the architect Cedric Price.

* The 1936 novel Rickshaw Boy is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man.

She was also the author of the Amber Brown and Matthew Martin series.

She has one sister, author Jackie Collins, and one brother, Bill Collins.

She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world.

She later married New Yorker colleague John Hersey, author of the book Hiroshima.

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.

She is described by the author as a " regular snow-maiden " with curly golden hair and blue eyes, " pale and slender " and " always carrying herself " like a very proper young lady.

Mary Violet Clayton Calthrop, wife of author Dion Clayton Calthrop, wrote in April 1925 about Barker and Flower Fairies of the Spring: " She has such exquisite taste, besides draughtsmanship.

She is the sister of author Mark Z. Danielewski.

She is the author of four photo essay books featuring her photography of the Earth, including Passionate Vision ( 2000 ), which covered Canada's national parks.

She is one of the handful of people whom certain scholars conjecture may have been the true author of the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.

She was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays and short fiction, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L ' Amant ( 1984 ), translated into English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese man.