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 brought the quirt down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to step back.

She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.

She thrust forward through the shadows and the trees that resisted her and tried to fling her back.

She had even steeled herself to keep Juanita upstairs in the nurse's room off the empty nursery, although the girl tried to insist on moving back to the quarters to spare Kate remembrance of the baby's death.

She tried to find some way to draw him out, to help him.

She tried to think of his unpredictable actions in the eleven years she had known him and discovered they weren't so many after all.

She dreamed up the cookie recipe, tried it, liked it and entered it in the contest.

She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.

She tried to poison him, but at the last second, Aegeus recognized his sword and knocked the poisoned cup out of Theseus ' hand.

She experimented with various opiates in her early adult years, and tried cocaine at age 19.

She tried applying the plein-air painting techniques used by the Impressionists to her own landscapes and portraiture, with little success.

She also tried to convince Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome.

She tried to flee, but he coiled around her legs and held her arms tightly against her sides as he raped her.

She tried to run away, but the blood of the tree had touched her skin and she found her feet rooted to the spot.

She tried to suppress the book.

She was eventually tried for treason and sentenced to death, being beheaded in February 1587.

She tried to shoot her father with a crossbow after King Henry allowed her two young daughters to be blinded.

She was materially happy in this home, a lot happier than many of the other characters, but when her indigenous family tried to meet her, she was caught in crossfire between her two " families ".

She tried to convince Belldandy to return to Heaven to resolve the bug problem and at the same time with the ulterior motive of alleviating her loneliness.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

She tells him that the IRA has tried and convicted him in absentia.

She tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power.

She pleaded to her brother to let her return home, but he only sent a few agents who tried to assist in helping her situation and refused to let her return home.

She never let anyone challenge her authority as queen, even though many people, who felt she was weak and should be married, tried to do so.

She fled to England and tried to break her contract with Warner Bros. Davis lost the lawsuit and soon returned to America.