And the ecstasy of such moments is like a dam against reality, pressing it back.

it was a mild term for the embracing, the prancing, the Carmagnole-like ecstasy of the half-clad madmen running amuck in the almost unendurable joy of liberation.

Thus Helen the Proud, the Beautiful, yielded her lips to his, and in all the world for her was nought save the deep, soft voice of Beltane, and his eyes, and the new, sweet ecstasy that thrilled within her.

" Lefty rocked himself back and forth in an ecstasy of impatience.

I skipped about the room quite in an ecstasy.

That Aristotle had in mind an analogy with medicine is better understood from a passage in the Politics which describes the beneficial effect of music on patients suffering from religious ecstasy.

The bells of the Cathedral and the Ursulines' chapel were ringing for high mass, and a mocking-bird, perching on a chimney-top above Madame John's rooms, was carolling, whistling, mewing, chirping, screaming, and trilling with the ecstasy of a whole May in his throat.

Rudolph scrambled after, now urged by an ecstasy of apprehension, now clogged as by the weight of all the hill above them.

A harsh voice hailed, from the boat astern; the lowdah answered; and so rapidly slid the deceptive glimmer of her bow, that before Rudolph knew whether to wake his friends, or could recover, next, from the shock and ecstasy of unbelief, a tall white figure jumped or swarmed over the side.

I see it upward roll'd, Day for the world, but life, fire-life for me, Smiting asunder Death's night-mystery With lightning-blade of strength and ecstasy!

She is rearing a late brood, I suppose.' 'What do you think it is which can stir him up to such an ecstasy of joy, and transfigure his whole heart into melody?' 'What but love, the fulness of all joy, the evoker of all song?' 'All song?The angels sing in heaven.'

He would be very angry, would want to punish the person who had done it; but he and she would laugh together, and he would take her in his arms and kiss her in one of the many ways in which he had made a kiss an ecstasy of delight, and they would laugh together as he whispered that nothing should ever separate them.

Therewith he took her into his arms and for the first time set his lips to hers, in such a transport of ecstasy that everything seemed to his sight as though he were about to swoon.

At the head of the board sat the young couple, radiant with an engrossing happiness that took no thought of what the future might have in store for it, but was contented with the triumphant ecstasy of the moment.

We see him in almost all places, as it were, at the same moment of time,now warbling in ecstasy from the roof of a shed, then, with his wings spread and feathers ruffled, scolding furiously at a Blue-bird or a Swallow that has alighted on his box, or driving a Robin from a cherry-tree that stands near his habitation.

He is not particular about the part of the song which he makes his closing note, but will leave off right in the middle of a strain, when he appears to be in the height of ecstasy, to pick up a spider or a fly.

But the notes of the Robin are all melodious, all delightful,loud without vociferation, mellow without monotony, fervent without ecstasy, and combining more of mellowness of tone, plaintiveness, cheerfulness, and propriety of execution, than those of any other bird.

Sometimes he lengthens his brief notes into an extended melody, and sings in a sort of ecstasy, like the birds of the Finch tribe.

He is plainly the merriest of all the feathered creation, almost continually in motion, and singing upon the wing, apparently in the greatest ecstasy of joy.

Callandar slipped his blue tie snugly under the collar of his white flannel shirt and sighed with the ecstasy of health renewed.

You willEsther?" His impassioned tones lingered on the name with ecstasy.

By George, it's ripping!" cried Wilson, who had been left in a kind of ecstasy by the events of the day.

" "Maestro mio!" cried Marcantonio at length, in ecstasy; "none among us may learn the marvel of thine art!"

There came in her soul a sudden swift ecstasy that was like the singing of many birds in the dawning, thrilling her through and through.

They sat in the dewy garden till in the distant woods the nightingales began their passion-steeped music, and thenbecause the ecstasy of the night was almost more than she could bearAvery softly freed herself from her husband's arm and rose.