He was, by nature, intensely enthusiastic, and his strong personality ever impressed itself on individuals and communities with which he came in contact.

Our new driver was immensely enthusiastic, but very excited.

"Pertaining to or resembling romance, or an ideal state of things; partaking of the heroic, the marvellous, the supernatural, or the imaginative; chimerical, fanciful, extravagantly enthusiastic.

Zara and Dolly were on top of a big wagon, half filled with new-mown hay, the sweet smell of which delighted Dolly, although Zara, who had lived in the country, knew it too well to become wildly enthusiastic over anything that was so commonplace to her.

They are the exposition of a splendid egotism, fiercely enthusiastic about one or two deeply held convictions; their strength does not lie in their matter of fact.

But the teacher was first and last a grammarian, and he would wax frantically enthusiastic over some subtle syntactic distinction which left Keith peevishly indifferent.

I have always found more to wonder at in the failures than in the great successes of artist lifeseeing the content and even happiness which some of the hopelessly enthusiastic found in their futile and endless labor.

We'll have him give us a rough estimate of how much it would cost to make the most prominent spots in Rosemont look decent instead of like a deserted ranch," exclaimed the alderman, becoming increasingly enthusiastic.

Patmore was characteristically enthusiastic for his own aspect of the truth; and characteristically impatient of the other.

It is difficult, indeed, to avoid becoming merely enthusiastic upon the possibilities of the applications of the endocrines to the educational domain.

He is perennially enthusiastic, and can still beat any journalist in London in describing a Lord Mayor's Show.

Karl van Mander, an early writer on Flemish art, was poetically enthusiastic in praise of Margaretha, calling her "a gifted Minerva, who spurned Hymen and Lucina, and lived in single blessedness.

" "I remember the refreshments at your annual dances," said Hilda, politely enthusiastic.

And before Miss Fanny could make her retreat, Ralph Ashley, Esq., caught that young lady in his arms, and impressed a salute upon her lips, so remarkably enthusiastic, that it resembled the discharge of a pistol.

I noticed a specially enthusiastic group on the steps of the Castello, and several busy photographers.

" Sahwah came in quite out of breath and evidently tremendously enthusiastic about something.

Nor, at a more recent date, was Lamb uncritically enthusiastic when he said of Peele's play that 'had it been in all parts equal, the Faithful Shepherdess of Fletcher had been but a second name in this sort of Writing.'

He saw that a desire for quiet was not a power for protection unless accompanied by equipment for war: he perceived also that delight in freedom from foreign broils very quickly and very easily ruined men who were unduly enthusiastic over it.

She played Mendelssohn's concerto, which I know by heart,but whether it was the thought that much was expected from her, or that the unusually enthusiastic reception had moved her, she played worse than I had ever heard her.

On the 27th of May thirty thousand persons assembled in the Park at Buffalo, where Kossuth had a magnificently enthusiastic reception.

But when the band comes round and plays in the hall of our old house on Christmas Eve, I have many a pleasant chat with the Chedworth musicians; they are so delightfully enthusiastic, and so grateful for being allowed to play.

And the artist answered in the same hushed voice, "I wonder what it means?" When they were again in the barn, Aaron King became eagerly enthusiastic over the possibilities of the big room.

Pen was charmed with the effect which she produced on his mother, and the clergyman on his part was exceedingly enthusiastic.