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 patroness of the historically Catholic American woman's fraternity, Theta Phi Alpha.

She was viewed as the patroness of a secretive group of dancers known as the calusari who operated up until at least the 19th century.

She is paired with Quilaztli and was considered a protectress of the Chalmeca people and patroness of the city of Culhuacan.

She has been syncretized with Our Lady of Charity ( La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre ), Cuba's patroness.

She may also have been influenced by the role-models of her great-aunts Fanny von Arnstein and Sarah Levy, both lovers of music, the former the patroness of a well-known salon and the latter a skilled keyboard player in her own right.

She enjoyed a long and fruitful widowhood, becoming patroness of many religious houses.

She is the patroness of native Indian people of the Americas ; of gardeners ; of florists ; of the City of Lima ; of Peru ; of the New World ; of Sittard, the Netherlands ; of India ; of people misunderstood for their piety and of the resolution of family quarrels.

She is depicted as a warrior goddess, fully armed and courageous, and was invoked to protect against death in battle with the prayer " Defend me, O maiden, with your veil from the enemy, from the arquebus and arrow ..." She is a patroness of horses, protection, exorcism, and the planet Venus, and Slavs would pray to her each morning as the sun rose.

She is the patroness of all feminine duties ( children, cattle ), patroness of all the economic activities (" God made the table, Māra made the bread "), even money and markets.

She was buried at Hanbury in Staffordshire and her remains were later transferred to Chester, of which church and monastery she became the great patroness ( see Chester Cathedral ).

She is a patroness of good eyesight, and of Alsace.

She served as the patroness of the Societe d ' Education sous la direction des dames lie Quebec.

She is then the patroness of the young soldiers and of brides.

She is patroness of the unfortunate, especially orphans.

She was also patroness of the Jerusalem Society that arranged for pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

She also became a leader of society ; invitations to her house were the most sought after and she was the first foreigner to be elected a patroness of Almack's, London's most exclusive social club, where von Lieven introduced the waltz to England.

She is also the patroness of Eichstätt, Antwerp, Oudenaarde, Veurne, Groningen, Zutphen and other cities in the Low Countries.

She became the patroness of the Nile Delta and the protector of all of Lower Egypt.

She is a very politically aware woman, with detailed information gathering and she plays patroness to many poets such as Horace and Ovid as well as being very popular with the people of Rome.

She was an active patroness of vernacular literature, with scribes and an illuminator in her household to copy books for her.

She is a patroness of protection, exorcism, and Slavs would pray to her each morning as the sun rose.

She was the patroness of Pierre Corneille, who in 1636 dedicated his tragedy Le Cid to her.