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 was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

She was the oldest, Willis was second, and Arnold was the third.

She was the oldest in a family of three children.

She was the daughter of a pharmacist, the third of seven children, the oldest of five girls.

She was the second oldest of seven children — Guelma Penn ( 1818 – 1873 ), Hannah Lapham ( 1821 – 1877 ), Daniel Read ( 1824 – 1904 ), Mary Stafford ( 1827 – 1907 ), Eliza Tefft ( 1832 – 1834 ), and Jacob Merritt ( 1834 – 1900 ).

She was an ally of her husband's most trusted adviser, the deeply distrusted Eadric Streona, ealdorman of Mercia, and he took her side, but she was opposed by Æthelred's oldest surviving son, Edmund Ironside, and his allies, who naturally regarded him as the heir.

She is also the oldest gorilla in captivity in the world.

She campaigned unstintingly for her oldest son's inheritance, living to see him ascend the throne of England in 1154.

She outlived her husband, her oldest son, her daughter and several of her grandchildren.

She was the widow of Arnulf II of Flanders, with whom she had children, the oldest of whom was of age to assume the offices of count of Flanders.

She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy ( 1989 ), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes ( 1991 ).

She may have some connection to Hathor, one of the oldest deities of Egypt who also went by the name Mehit, meaning great flood.

She remains the oldest continuous political-religious symbol in Western civilization.

She became one of the oldest women in history to give birth.

She holds the remarkable record of being the oldest housewife to visit both the North and South Poles.

She was the oldest daughter of John Dandridge ( 1700 – 1756 ), a Virginia planter and English immigrant, and Frances Jones ( 1710 – 1785 ) of English and Welsh descent.

She was considered the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998, the date of the death of 117-year-old Canadian Marie-Louise Meilleur, until her own death.

She was the first Australian-born person to be nominated for an acting Oscar, and for many years she held the record for the oldest performer nominated for an Oscar.

She is the oldest daughter of Khairallah Talfah.

She was the second oldest of the six children of Charles Stewart Parnell FitzSimons and Marguerita Lilburn FitzSimons.

She is identified as the wife or consort of the Sumerian Anu or Ugaritic El, the oldest deities of their pantheons.

She was the oldest of six children, only four of whom survived to adulthood.

She left memories with her husband and with Charlotte, the oldest surviving sibling, of a very vivacious woman at the parsonage.

She is also a patron of the English National Opera, the London Philharmonic Choir, the not-for-profit housing association Anchor, the charity Independent Age, St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham, England, Core a National charity in London England dedicated to funding research into digestive diseases and also publishes information leaflets on the most common diseases of the gut and liver, the Nature in Art Trust and London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art ( LAMDA ), the oldest drama school in the English speaking world and President of WWF-UK.