228 examples of elation in sentences

The discouragement of the former, the ill-concealed elation of the latter, proved the folly of any hope, on my part, that Carmel would be spared a full explanation of what I would have given worlds to leave in the darkness and ignorance of the present moment.

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.

Mr Dallas gives a lively account of his elation on the occasion.

But I must mention, as a striking instance of that spirit of contradiction to which he had a strong propensity, when Lord Elibank was some days after talking of it with the natural elation of a Scotchman, or of any man who is proud of a stately fortress in his own country, Dr. Johnson affected to despise it, observing that 'it would make a good prison in ENGLAND.'

There was no elation in his step; rather he walked as a man who carries a heavy burden, and Victor marked the fact with eyes of keen anxiety.

Philip received him with profound hypocrisy; loaded him with the most flattering promises; sent him back in the utmost elation: and when the credulous count returned to Brussels, he found that the written orders, of which he was the bearer, were in direct variance with every word which the king had uttered.

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.

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

This, too, caused the emperor some elation, and he said that even Neptune was afraid of him.

" This was a morsel of something swathed up in wrappings, round which the young mother's arm was folded with proud, protecting love; but I think he had been too anxious about the woman to feel a proper elation in his new position as father to the child.

None of the cruelties exercised by wealth and power upon indigence and dependance is more mischievous in its consequences, or more frequently practised with wanton negligence, than the encouragement of expectations which are never to be gratified, and the elation and depression of the heart by needless vicissitudes of hope and disappointment.

The busy, the ambitious, the inconstant, and the adventurous, may be said to throw themselves by design into the arms of fortune, and voluntarily to quit the power of governing themselves; they engage in a course of life in which little can be ascertained by previous measures; nor is it any wonder that their time is passed between elation and despondency, hope and disappointment.

This indulgence could not wholly preserve him from the remembrance of his disgrace, nor at once restore his confidence and elation.

" She made the announcement with a palpable ring of elation in her tones, looking at him proudly, and as if waiting to hear expressions of astonishment and delight.

In the morning he had felt in the proper sense self-sufficient and contented,the position, which a few months before he thought perhaps ten years ahead of him, had suddenly dropped at his feet, and he felt a natural elation, though it stopped quite short of self-conceit.

My elation of the previous night was as flat as a pancake.

His elation was so manifest that it was noticed by John Adams.

Yet she showed elation: "That means Anna and Victorine they have pazz' to the boat?" With merry nods and airy wavings of affirmation he sang back, rang back: "Mighty little I espec's, O, my ladies!

" The retaken prisoner shone with elation: "And those fellows of last night?got them back?" Greenleaf darkened, and shook his head.

Much, at any rate, in the way of undue elation may be forgiven to a country clergyman who suddenly found himself the centre of a court, which was regularly attended by statesmen, wits, and leaders of fashion, and with whom even bishops condescended to open gracious diplomatic communication.

Elation shone in his face and in the faces of all.

Thus while she hesitated, and he seemed still to wait for her further recollection, she noticed the strange elation of hope and joy that illumined his face.

Elation, triumph, being lifted on high by a single stroke of the mighty wing of glorycall it by any name, think of it as you likeit was as Portia that I had my first and last sense of it.

And the young were all elation Hearing Sumter's cannon roar, And they thought how tame the Nation In the age that went before.

This weather must have had much to do with the spontaneous enthusiasm which seized the troopsand enthusiasm aided, doubtless, by glad thoughts of the victory of Look-out Mountain won the day previous, and also by the elation attending the capture, after a fierce struggle, of the long ranges of rifle-pits at the mountain's base, where orders for the time should have stopped the advance.

228 examples of  elation  in sentences