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 refrained from actively taking part in government.

She was sympathetic to those seeking further reformation of the Church, and actively protected scholars working on English translations of the scriptures.

She actively sought out flora and fauna along with rare and exotic animals from around the world.

She is actively involved in groups and clubs, is a political activist and a supporter of Women's Liberation.

She was the female counterpart of her brother and consort, Aether ( Light ), but neither of them figured actively in myth or cult.

She also works actively for the handicapped, including as Chairman of the Royal Wedding Fund and Queen Silvia's Jubilee Fund.

She was still actively gardening at age 86 and promoted gardens for those with special needs.

She participates actively in the field of sexology and has written extensively on the fields of biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles.

She wrote letters to friends and political figures in support of the causes she had been actively promoting.

She promised voters that she would be a traditional first lady and campaigned actively for her husband.

She generally avoided discussion of political issues during the campaign, particularly those on which she and her husband differed, and those closely involved with the campaign have reported that she was actively involved in campaign strategy.

She had actively engaged, on the side of the residents, in the ' Battle of the Bogside ', for which she served a short jail term.

She worked on behalf of a number of causes, most prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals.

She is a Star Trek fan and has been actively involved in the Trekkie fan movement.

She developed an appetite for attention, actively seeking to flout convention — whether by dancing the Charleston, or by wearing a tight, flesh-colored bathing suit to fuel rumors that she swam nude.

She actively participated in her husband's social work with equal dedication.

She also actively produces film, theatre and television projects in addition to her acting pursuits.

She was also actively involved in coordinating assistance efforts at Pier 94 following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

She and other festival leaders were members of Nazi chief ideologue Alfred Rosenberg's Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur, which actively suppressed modernist music and works by " degenerate " artists.

She has actively exercised the powers conferred on the President by the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia and has played a leading role in achieving Latvia ’ s membership in NATO and the European Union.

She adores and hero-worships Fatty and he is very fond of her-she is the only one of the group who actively encourages his boasting.

She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders ( based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures ) and other works.

She is actively involved in social work, specifically working with organizations to promote women ’ s rights, prevention of violence against women, and also to prevent the human trafficking of Nepali girls for prostitution.

She is currently one of the vice presidents of the Bundestag and belongs to the reform-oriented members of her party, actively supporting parliamentary representative democracy.