26 Metaphors for excitement

The excitement was the greatest under which he had ever labored.

But constant excitement of the will is never an unmixed good, to say the least; in other words, it involves pain.

" Professor Bain, discussing all the human emotions in a volume of 600 pages, declares, regarding love (138), that "the excitement at its highest pitch, in the torrent of youthful sensations and ungratified desires is probably the most furious and elated experience of human nature.

The excitement and surprise were a great shock to the old man, while to Amelia they were the greatest happiness that could have come to her.

A score of embittered deputies advance toward the tribune, red-faced and gesticulating in the German way when excitement is the dominant passion.

Now this hourly life-and-death excitement is a keen delight to most wild creatures, but must be peculiarly distracting to the comfort-loving temperament of others.

As if the excitement of the moment was insufficient, the monster, gazing down the dry watercourse, caught sight of his companion, who, advancing up the bed of the nullah, stood irresolutely about twenty yards off.

The wild excitement of '56 is a tradition hardly credible to those who did not feel its fever.

Time was when the uplands of Gloucestershire were almost entirely under the plough, when good scenting days seldom gladdened the heart of the hunting man, and when, in a ride over the Cotswold tableland, the excitement of a fast gallop on grass was an impossibility.

The excitement was intense on the part of Lewis and his friends, who were joined by the friends of N. Paul, to destroy, if they could, the board of managers.

"A public excitement is a powerful engine, Mr. Effingham!"

"Why all the excitement?" was Frank's comment, as the three stood well forward while the warship steamed through the harbor.

Some say that excitement is religion, and others, that it is contentment.

And no doubt for a young, strong, and bold man the excitement of it is an intense pleasure.

The excitement of running after news, rather than waiting for news to land in the form of press notes or government hand-outs, is a different ball-game altogether.

He said the excitement of moving and coming into new scenes was the cause most likely of her feeling worse, and that would soon go off; then she was to try and be a good girl and pray.

To-day's entertainment, the dinner, the conversation, and the excitement are so many drops of narcotic.

All the German excitement about the colonies of England is only a half understanding of what was once heroic and is now largely caddish.

The excitement of the day was a pleasurable sensation, and as for his master he might go to Kansas or Hong-Kong.

There's no underworld at Millville, and the only excitement we can furnish just now is a night with us at the old farm.

This excitement was a sign that controversies which had hitherto been confined to books and treatises were now to be admitted to popular periodicals, and that the common man of the world would now listen and have an opinion of his own on the bases of belief, just as he listens and judges in politics or art, or letters.

Another keen excitement of the daily journey through a living world of mystery and enchantment was the search for frogs.

Excitement remains the residual object in life.

Oh! cease; That excuse will scarce acquit thee, Since when one 's alone, excitement Is a flame that 's seldom kindled.

It was never hotmerely calm, grey, and even showery, our only excitements being an occasional school of porpoises or the sight of a passing tramp steamer.

26 Metaphors for  excitement