38 adjectives to describe elation

But his simple and modest character bore the trial well; he manifested no undue elation, and formed his plans tranquilly and without hurry for the improvement of his people.

He swung abruptly from one extreme mood to anotherfrom mad elation to paralyzing depression.

Whether it was the effect of the refreshment he had imbibed, or whether it was mere elation of spirits I cannot say, the fact, however, remains that for the whole of the journey, which occupied ten or twelve minutes he howled vociferously.

To Avery later he gave but few details of the interview, but she could not fail to see his grim elation and smiled at it.

Then Miss Stapylton laughed again, and appeared to be in a state of agreeable, though somewhat nervous, elation.

And did you ever see him?" Before he could reply, Pintal entered, stepping smartly, his color heightened with happiness, his eyes full of an extraordinary elation.

There was no trace of feverish elation which, in solitude, recoiled to the brink of despair.

In a moment of fierce elation he raised his hat to them, then seemed to see Grizel crying "I woke up," and in horror of himself clapped it on again.

Poverty is too often attended with Fraud, vicious Compliance, Repining, Murmur and Discontent; Riches expose a Man to Pride and Luxury, a foolish Elation of Heart, and too great a Fondness for the present World.

I am even sensible of a little feeling of funny elation at the sound of the fiddles

You were in an extremely Vealy condition, when, having attained the age of fourteen, you sent some verses to the county newspaper, and with simple-hearted elation read them in the corner devoted to what was termed "Original Poetry."

On such a day Billy, stirred to an indefinable elation because the world as he saw it then was altogether good, crooned his pet song while he waited at the porch with Flora's horse and his own.

"I don't think Mr. Ferrars ever put on much side," protested Katherine, taking up the cudgels in defence of the absent one, although there was an increased heaviness in her heart as she reflected that perhaps, after all, he was betrothed to Mary Selincourt, and hence the inward elation resulting in the outward swagger.

"Ithought I could!" It was his moment of triumph, of irresistible elation.

He would go up the main staircase very carefully, sometimes stopping half-way up for thirty or forty minutes' doze, but getting to the landing eventually, and tramping into his room in the second story, with no little elation to find it still there.

She was not happy; but she was filled with the mysterious vital elation which surpasses happiness.

But he knew that he was trembling too, though with a kind of odd elation rather than alarm.

Therefore, he devised what he called, with pardonable elation, the 'Nelson touch,' the attack in successive lines so directed as to overwhelm one part of the enemy's fleet, whilst the other part was prevented from coming to the assistance of the first, and was in its turn overwhelmed or broken up.

" This accomplished, he had gone to bed in a condition of peaceful elation, eager for the next day to come that he might take these mighty productions to Joseph Frowenfeld, and make him a present of them for insertion in his book of tables.

The exercise filled me with a peculiar elation.

She remounted the shadowy stairs on the wings of a pure and ingenuous elation.

Keith caught a glimpse of that face, and a sense of reckless elation shot through him.

" She was filled with a secret elation and went about the house singing like a lark, until Betty, who had been moping like an owl since her mother went to the hospital, was quite cheered up.

A singular elation began to colour her temper, a quickening sense of emancipation.

It was just three miles to Bohola, and the walk there, he thought, would calm the extraordinary spiritual elation that news of Nora had kindled in his brain.

38 adjectives to describe  elation