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 went on to comment that reviving memories of a suit that the majority of the public had forgotten after the initial burst of publicity, commenting " when you run these ads defending, defending, defending, sometimes people think, " Well, wait a minute, why are they trying so hard to defend themselves?

She dies without defending herself despite being able to shield herself using advanced technology.

She spent the rest of her life defending his reputation and managing his art and effects, much of which eventually was donated to Glasgow University.

She fully acts as an ally and friend to Alice, the latter defending the cat when she is threatened with execution.

She won her first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon, defeating World No. 1 Martina Hingis in the quarterfinals, sister Serena in the semifinals, and defending champion Lindsay Davenport in the final.

She later wrote an editorial defending the feature, calling Page Three models " intelligent, vibrant young women who appear in ' The Sun ' out of choice and because they enjoy the job.

She defeated the defending champion, Serena Williams, in a controversial semifinal 6 – 2, 4 – 6, 7 – 5 which saw Henin failing to acknowledge her raised hand during Williams service motion, a breach in tennis etiquette.

She even turned Jean Grey's parents into demons and sent them to attack their own daughter: Jean facing the dilemma of defending herself without harming them.

She comes to accept the idea of the marriage, defending it to her sister-in-law Polaris as a matter of statecraft ( though there are indications that Ronan wishes for more ).

She kept her birth name, defending her right to do so in court.

She beat the defending champion and former world no. 1, Maria Sharapova, in the first round 7 – 5, 3 – 6, 6 – 3.

She argues that immunologists have had overly simplistic and schematic ideas about immune response because of the limits of their assays, and that organs are likely to induce immune responses that are best-suited to defending the organ from the damage of microbes but also from the damage of the immune system itself.

She apparently frees herself, as she is later seen defending it from Drake's men.

She scored her first Top 10 win over defending champion Jelena Dokić in Rome, and entered the Top 20 afterwards.

She won the title, overcoming Santa Ana winds and defending champion Ana Ivanovic in the final.

She experienced more success in the doubles tournament with partner Kuznetsova, where as an unseeded pair, they reached the final, beating defending champions Gisela Dulko and Flavia Pennetta in the process.

She tells him she has become the ultimate weapon, without her knowledge or consent, and that she is seen by the Japan Self-Defense Forces ( JSDF ) as the last hope for defending Japan from imminent invasion.

She took the lead within the administration in defending existing environmental laws and budgets, and was the driving force behind a stringent tightening of air quality standards that led to a prolonged political and legal battle.

She obtained Ph. D. by defending the dissertation Rapid luminosity changes due to interaction with a black hole ( Hitre spremembe izseva ob interakciji s črno luknjo ), which she prepared under supervision of Andrej Čadež.

She later abducted the Avengers and Fantastic Four to the future to enlist their aid in defending Femizonia from the extra-dimensional warlord Arkon and his warriors from Polemachus.

She immediately expresses her challenging task of defending her client who the FBI believes has connections with terrorist organisations.

She also bought the legal rights to the championship in the late 1970s, and after losing the championship for two days to Evelyn Stevens in 1978, began another long reign, defending her title for another six years.