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 a committed animal lover and one of the few Conservative MPs to have consistently voted for the ban on fox hunting.

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

She was voted into the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1973 and the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1974.

She was voted Best British Female Vocalist two years in a row by the magazine Record Mirror.

She is closely associated with a line from Grand Hotel, one which the American Film Institute in 2005 voted the 30th most memorable movie quote of all time, " I want to be alone, I just want to be alone ", a theme echoed in several of her other roles.

She was voted 20th in Channel 4's countdown of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time, being one of only two women in the Top 20 ( the other was Audrey Hepburn ).

She represents a district in Orange County, long a bastion of suburban conservatism, and is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and the New Democrat Coalition ; she reportedly voted with Nancy Pelosi 97. 8 % of the time during the 111th Congress.

She voted against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and supports abortion rights.

She voted to implement the 9 / 11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007.

She was voted Miss St. Louis in 1926.

She asked the school children what names they liked, and they voted to name their new town Gisela.

She voted for " Xenia.

She was voted by British exhibitors the tenth most popular local star at the box office in 1951 and 1952.

She has voted in favor of lifting the ban on privately funded abortions at U. S. military facilities overseas ( HA 209, rejected ), in favor of an amendment that would repeal a provision that forbids service women and dependents from getting an abortion in overseas military hospitals ( HA 722, rejected ), in favor of stripping the prohibition of funding for organizations working overseas that uses its own funds to provide abortion services or engage in advocacy related to abortion services ( HA 997, rejected ).

She also voted in favor of the 1998 Abortion Funding Amendment, which would have allowed the use of district funds to promote abortion-related activities, but would have prohibited the use of federal funds.

She voted against a Constitutional amendment banning flag-burning and against a Congressional resolution supporting the display of the Ten Commandments in courtrooms.

She has also voted to remove an amendment that would allow for oil and gas exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

She was motivated to run for Congress after the representative in her district Dan Frisa voted against an assault weapons bill.

She voted for the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.

She is pro-life and has voted against embryonic stem cell research.

She has voted in favor of granting legal status to fetuses via the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

She was voted " Most Talkative " in the 1961 school Hoss Election, and in her Senior Year ( Class of 1963 ), " Most Dramatic ".

She ultimately voted off Rob to give herself a better shot at winning.

She was voted " best personality " by the graduating class at Wheaton High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.