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 wouldn't have precedence over the next Empress Consort, however, as only those Dowager Empresses who were mothers of Emperors had precedence over the wife of the reigning sovereign.

She is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty.

She was the granddaughter of Princess Sophie of Sweden, and her marriage to Gustaf V united, by a real blood link ( and not only so-called adoption ), the reigning Bernadotte dynasty with the former royal house of Holstein-Gottorp.

She therefore abdicated in his favour after reigning only one year.

She travelled widely during her reigning year and was invited to pre-civil war El Salvador by that country's government.

She has been described as a reigning " Queen of Pop " for her influence over the record industry during the 1990s, alongside other female entertainers, including Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey .< ref name = diva >" If Ella Fitzgerald is the queen of jazz, Billie Holiday first lady of the blues, and Aretha Franklin the queen of soul, then who is the queen of pop?

She had one brother, Prince Charles Edward, Duke of Albany ( 1884 – 1954 ) and later reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( 1900 – 1918 ).

She was the sister of Friedrich, last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ; Marie, the first wife of William II of Württemberg ; and of Emma, Queen consort of William III of the Netherlands ( and mother of Queen Wilhelmina ).

She was the third daughter and fifth child of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, and her husband Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.

She was the fifth daughter and youngest of the nine children of the reigning British monarch, Queen Victoria, and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ( later The Prince Consort ).

She was also the godmother of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, the reigning Sovereign Prince of Monaco, the godmother of Queen Fabiola of Belgium, and the godmother of Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, the Duchess of Alba ( the Duchess with the most noble titles in the world ).

She was Silla's twenty-seventh ruler, and its first reigning queen.

She is the reigning Miss UST Medical Technology and also, Miss UST Pharmacy 2007 and was crowned Miss Thomasian Personality 2007.

She advanced through to the Candidates Final, where she beat Alla Kushnir by 7½ – 6½ to set up a world title match in Pitsunda, Georgia, against Nona Gaprindashvili, the reigning women's world champion.

She defeated the reigning Olympic champion – Italy's Sara Simeoni – and cleared 2. 02 meters to win her second Olympic title.

She competed in three Olympic Games ( 1992, 1996, 2004 ), the highlight of which was winning two rounds of singles at the 1992 Games in Barcelona before bowing to China's reigning world champion Tang Jiuhong.

She was the reigning champion of the American Gladiators Celebrity Challenge two years running.

She won the women's 1000 m final, defeating the reigning World Champion Nathalie Lambert and former World Champion Kim So-Hee, and was part of the team that won the 3000 m relay in a world record time along with Kim.

She often protected the younger children from their reigning brother, and favoured her younger son.

She defeated the reigning Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova in a semifinal 7 – 6, 7 – 6.

She then upset top-ranked Caroline Wozniacki, 6 – 1, 6 – 3 for her first win over a reigning world no.

She sang there intermittently from 1891 to 1901 and established herself as a genuine rival to Covent Garden's reigning diva, Nellie Melba, whom she heartily disliked.

A recording of " There She Is, Miss America " as sung by Parks is still used each year in the Miss America contest as the new reigning titleholder takes her walk down the runway in her newly-earned crown.

She then played two matches for Italy's Fed Cup team in the World Group semifinals versus reigning champion Russia.