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 would look at Jack, with that hidden something in her eyes, and Jack would see the Woman and become breathless and a little sick.

She is just home from a sojourn in London where she has become the sweetheart of a young fellow named Ronnie ( we never do see him ) and has been subjected to a first course in thinking and appreciating, including a dose of good British socialism.

She had intended Newton to become a clergyman, but she died of tuberculosis when he was six years old.

She would later become one of the few successful women theater promoters on Broadway.

She would eventually become the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years after her son's death.

She and Pissarro were often treated as " two outsiders " by the Salon since neither were French or had become French citizens.

She would later advise her confessor and biographer, the Blessed Raymond of Capua, O. P., ( who went on to become Master General of the Order ) to do during times of trouble what she did now as a teenager: " Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

She won what would become her most famous acting role, that of Kimberly Drummond on Diff ' rent Strokes.

She attended Loreto Community School in Milford, County Donegal and then moved away to attend college wanting to become a classical pianist, continuing her studies in music and also studying watercolour painting.

* 645: She abdicated in favor of her brother, who would become known as Emperor Kōtoku

* 758: She abdicated in favor of a cousin who would become known as Emperor Junnin.

She also adopted a new nom-de-plume, the one for which she would become best known: George Eliot.

She had married the Dauphin Francis in 1558, and become Queen of France on the death of his father the following year.

She learned to " hear " people's speech by reading their lips with her hands — her sense of touch had become extremely subtle.

She was the first woman to become prime minister in India.

She worked for the Judiciary Circuit, and left the state's attorney's office in 1976 to become a partner in a private law firm.

She awakened, he identified himself and offered her two choices: she could submit to his sexual advances and become his wife and future queen, or he would kill her and one of her slaves and place the bodies together, then claim he had caught her having adulterous sex ( see sexuality in ancient Rome for Roman attitudes toward sex ).

She had already become emotionally attached to Russia and often thought of the huge, remote country that was to have been her home.

She was also the first African-American woman to serve on the federal judiciary ( 1966 ), as well as the first African-American and the first woman to become Chief Judge of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ( 1982 ).

She was returned to Germany in 1965 to become a museum ship in 1971.

She did not want the school to become " the Vassar of the West " because she felt that would not be an appropriate memorial for her son.

She taught first at Eunice Kenyon's Friends ' Seminary, and then at the Canajoharie Academy in 1846, where she rose to become headmistress of the Female Department.

She would become known as Mother Teresa.

She also demo-ed songs with Cyril Rawson but the demos were without success, partly due to Twain's wish to become a rock singer, not a country artist.

She would become the unquestioned love of his life.