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.

" ( Wills is quoted as saying, " I rode horeseback from the place between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith ... She was about the greatest thing I had ever heard.

" She was one of the greatest pantomime artists I have ever seen ", he said, " it was through watching her that I learned not only how to express emotions with my hands and face, but also how to observe and study people.

She has had her greatest commercial successes with the films Bruce Almighty ( 2003 ), The Break-Up ( 2006 ), Marley & Me ( 2008 ), Just Go with It ( 2011 ) and Horrible Bosses ( 2011 ).

She is widely considered the greatest female ice hockey player in the world.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and is ranked as the 11th greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.

She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US $ 500, 000 per year ( more than five times the salary of the US President ).

She was very jealous of her husband and his infidelity was the greatest problem of their marriage, with Maria Wilhelmina, Princess of Auersperg, as his best known mistress.

She positioned the Seneca Falls meeting as her own political debut, and characterized it as the beginning of the women's rights movement, calling it " the greatest movement for human liberty recorded on the pages of history — a demand for freedom to one-half the entire race.

She can now judge her parents and Gerald from a new perspective, but the greatest change has been in herself: her social conscience has been awakened and she is aware of her responsibilities.

She has had her greatest commercial successes with Batman Returns ( 1992 ), What Lies Beneath ( 2000 ), and Hairspray ( 2007 ).

She took extra lessons from the noted teachers of the day — Christian Johansson, Pavel Gerdt, Nikolai Legat and more especially from Enrico Cecchetti, considered the greatest ballet virtuoso of the time and founder of the Cecchetti method, a very influential ballet technique used up to this day.

She cited him as one of her greatest influences since.

She became sober in 1999 and maintains that recovery is the greatest achievement of her life.

She cursed the men of Ulster to suffer her labour pains in the hour of their greatest need, which is why none of the Ulstermen but the semi-divine hero Cúchulainn were able to fight in the Táin Bó Cuailnge ( Cattle Raid of Cooley ).

Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, but noted " Love was an absolute monster vocalist in the nineties, the greatest era ever for rock singers ... She doesn't have that power in her lungs anymore – barely a trace.

" Burke also indicated: " She was my greatest encouragement.

She has been called " the greatest Spanish gypsy dancer of her generation ".

She reputedly took her stage name from two of her greatest heroes, Joan of Arc ( Jeanne d ' Arc ) and King Arthur.

She is considered one of the greatest pro-independence patriots of Puerto Rico of all times. Not admired by many Islanders whom resent her actions and ideals.

She has also released ten studio albums and three compilation albums and two greatest hits albums, one released in the US and the other released internationally, through her record label of 13 years, Asylum-Curb, and placed over 40 singles on American and international charts since 1996.

She became the greatest dramatic actress of the eighteenth century London stage and at the time of her death was the highest paid actress in England.

The monks suffered their greatest defeat at Taozhai, where four of them fell in battle ; their remains were buried under the Stūpa of the Four Heroic Monks ( Si yi seng ta ) at Mount She near Shanghai.

She attempts to attract a fairy in the hope that they will grant her wish, but when she succeeds in drawing the Amadan to her, she accidentally challenges him to a contest to see who is the greatest fool.

John Chapman of the Daily News declared that the production had " good lyrics and tunes by Irving Berlin ... the razzle-dazzle atmosphere of a big-time show " but pronounced Merman the best part of the show, stating " She is a better comedienne than she ever was before ", stating that " Annie is a good, standard, lavish, big musical and I'm sure it will be a huge success -- but it isn't the greatest show in the world ".