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 had also an illegitimate son, Charles Auguste Louis Joseph, duc de Morny by her lover Charles Joseph, comte de Flahaut.

She is an ancestor ( via her illegitimate daughter Eliza Courtney ) of Sarah, Duchess of York.

She had a number of miscarriages before giving birth to four children: three with her husband, and an illegitimate daughter fathered by Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey.

She also raised the Duke's illegitimate daughter, Charlotte, who was conceived with a maid.

She had an affair with her first boss, Richard Daly, the manager of the Theatre Royal, Cork, who was married, and had an illegitimate daughter, Frances ( b. 1782 Dublin ), at age 20.

She may have had an illegitimate half-sister ( date of birth unknown ), Ann Dandridge Costin, who was born into slavery ; her enslaved mother was African and Cherokee and her father was believed to be John Dandridge.

She is also a distant cousin of her late aunt Diana, Princess of Wales, whose father was John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer for Eugenie's mother Sarah, Duchess of York is a direct descendant of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, daughter of John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer, ( via Georgiana's illegitimate daughter Eliza Courtney ).

She is therefore a descendant, in an unbroken male ( though illegitimate ) line, of King Charles II.

She was the illegitimate daughter of Anne Bécu, a woman of enticing beauty, whose occupation was a seamstress.

She eventually yields to the artful libertine and gives birth to an illegitimate stillborn child at an inn.

She was not very much liked at court and James was unfaithful: he kept a variety of younger mistresses such as Arabella Churchill, by whom he fathered many illegitimate children, including two born during Anne's lifetime ; thus, he was called " the most unguarded ogler of his time.

She was forced to abdicate on 24 July 1567 in favour of the infant James and to appoint her illegitimate half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, as regent.

She had one illegitimate daughter by Alexander-Sophia ; and a son Emanuel, who wasn't admitted by her husband and possibly was also tsar's child.

She was also well connected to the Castilian Royal Family, by illegitimate descent.

She brings her illegitimate son, Vyasa, onto the scene to father sons with her dead son's widows – turning the renowned " lunar dynasty, into the lineage of a dasa ( slave ) maiden ".

She was born in Lyon, an illegitimate child of the comtesse d ' Albon, but was brought up as the daughter of Claude Lespinasse of Lyon.

She was the illegitimate child of a Spanish Captain, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje, and a Criollo woman, Isabel Ramírez.

She had an illegitimate half-brother, James, born to her father's beautiful Greek mistress Marietta de Patras.

She had a tenuous hold on the kingdom as her right to the throne was constantly being challenged by her illegitimate half-brother James.

She had adopted as her son, Alfonso of Aragon, the illegitimate child of King Ferdinand II of Naples, who was married to her half-brother's illegitimate daughter, Charlotte de Lusignan.

She believed, however, that she was the illegitimate daughter of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan and his rejection of her claims upon him may have influenced her passionate defense of the rights of illegitimate children.

She was most likely illegitimate, the daughter of Giulio Strozzi and Isabella Garzon, his long-time servant and heir.