"Ask him, dear D.O.V.E.," whispered Julietta, who was timid, from the circumstance of never having published, "which he thinks the most ecstatic feeling, hope or despair?

Luckily for his reputation for sentiment, he mistook "ecstatic," a word he had never heard before, for "erratic;" and recollecting sundry roving maniacs that he had seen, he answered promptly "Despair, out and out.

But near it sate ecstatic Wonder, Listening the deep applauding thunder; And Truth, in sunny vest arrayed, By whose the tarsel's eyes were made; All the shadowy tribes of mind, In braided dance, their murmurs joined, And all the bright uncounted powers Who feed on heaven's ambrosial flowers.

Last came Joy's ecstatic trial: He, with viny crown advancing, First to the lively pipe his hand addressed; But soon he saw the brisk awakening viol, Whose sweet entrancing voice he loved the best.

" Now, all at once, the General felt the tremendous fatigues of the day; there was a wild, swimming, whirling sensation in his head that forced him to let his eyelids sink down; yet, just there, in the midst of his painful bewilderment, he realized with ecstatic complacency that the most martial-looking man in Louisiana was standing in his spurs with the hand of Louisiana's queenliest woman laid tenderly on his arm.

Line 12: I have translated l'astratto by the mystic; astratto is assorto, or lost in ecstatic contemplation.

But now the expectant people were thronging the Piazza; the fondamenta along the Riva was alive with color, balconies were brilliant with draperies, windows were glowing with vivid shawls, rugs, brocadestossed out to lean upon in the splendor that became a fête; above them the spaces were crowded with enthusiastic spectators in holiday dress; the children of the populace, shouting, ecstatic, ubiquitous, swarmed on the quay below.

Like St. Catherine of Sienna and some other ecstatics, she often felt the most profound feeling of conviction that our Saviour had taken her heart out of her bosom, and placed his own there instead for a time.

There is nothing so annoying as to escort one's cousin (I think I have mentioned that MARGARET is my cousin) to the theatre and to hear her express the most ecstatic admiration of that "perfectly lovely Mr. MONTGOMERY."

To those who have read her books and the letters written to her by one of the sanest and least ecstatic men of her day, or have conversed with people who knew her well, it is evident that Florence Nightingale was at no point like that.

It is not to vigorous runaway slaves that we look for ecstatic rapture in performing heaven's will.

how every fibre in my frame thrilled with an ecstatic emotion, as, for the first time in my life, I was brought under the influence of female charms!

During the next ecstatic ten minutes, with my hand pressed against my wildly beating heart, I planned my wedding dress, selected with care and discrimination my trousseau, furnished the rose-embowered cottage far from the madding crowdand wondered why Father did not send for me.

Another manifestation of Vealiness, which appears both in age and youth, is the entertaining a strong belief that kings, noblemen, and baronets are always in a condition of ecstatic happiness.

Never in her life had she been so frightened, so ecstatic.

The altar was always bare except at these times, and none ascended it but priests, ecstatics, and the man who carried the god.

The sorcerers, ecstatics, and demoniacs were not regularly organized into a caste.

At the same time she utilised the spiritual forces of monasticism, and turned the mystic impulse of ecstatics to account.

Ecstatics, seers of visions, and devout fasting girls who eat on the sly, often belong to this category.

She heaved an ecstatic breath to speak on, but failed.

We are confirmed in this suspicion by noticing Dalton's ecstatic delight over the immoral courtship customs of the Bhúiyas, which he found "marvellously pretty and romantic" and describes as follows:

Hence such ecstatic expressions as "How much better is thy love than wine!

It almost seemed as though time ceased to operate, so instantaneously did his mood pass from terror to elationwild, ecstatic elation that could dare anything and everything to share in the awful delight and wonder of Skale's transcendent experiment.

Jimmie gave an ecstatic bounce.

If type could entrap one-half the pretty oddities of Aurora's speech,the arch, the pathetic, the grave, the earnest, the matter-of-fact, the ecstatic tones of her voice,nay, could it but reproduce the movement of her hands, the eloquence of her eyes, or the shapings of her mouth,ah!