185 examples of exhilaration in sentences

If one kept shop on a breezy tip of the Delectable Mountains with all the regions of the world laid out below, he could not be expected to climb up for the hundredth time with a first exhilaration, or to swing his alpenstock as though he were on a rare holiday.

But of much more importance than a knowledge of the names and distinctions of color is the joy and exhilaration which these colored leaves excite.

The facts did not justify this elation, this swift exhilaration of blood, but to one who has starved for long any food is grateful.

Yet, the relief I felt after the all but hopeless anguish in which I had been drowning for the last few days gave to my spirit a wild exhilaration that night.

Cicero ought to have anticipated this; it seems, however, he had that unfortunate temperament which favors alternate depression and exhilaration of spirits, without measure or reason.

But the exhilaration of the people was abnormal, like the merriment of negroes on a Southern plantation,a sort of rebound from misery and burdens, which found a vent in noise and practical jokes when the ordinary restraint was removed.

Even envy pales before the universal exhilaration.

The pendulum of a nation's thought swings from the extreme of doubt and cynicism to the opposite extreme of faith and exhilaration.

" Thus, with the unreflecting exhilaration of youth, Gerald went forth to the war, as light of heart as if he had been joining a boat-race or a hunting excursion; so little did he comprehend that ferocious system of despotism which was fastening its fangs on free institutions with the death-grapple of a bloodhound.

The Reformation had passed the period of its vinous fermentation, and its clarified results remained as an element of intellectual impulse and exhilaration; there were signs yet of the acetous and putrefactive stages which were to follow in the victory and decline of Puritanism.

He longed for human companionship, for some kind of mental exhilaration beyond that furnished by his own thoughts.

It was a glorious ride, and in the exhilaration of it Howland forgot to smoke the cigar that he held between his fingers.

THE ATTRACTIONS OF SKI-ING Though some runners are content merely to enjoy the actual practice of Ski-ing with all the difficulties to be overcome and the various turns to be perfected, the greater proportion probably ski mainly on account of the exhilaration obtained, the freedom enjoyed, and the wonderful beauty of the places reached.

For one, I really never enter it without exhilaration, or leave it without a momentary regret: there are always certain special new things on the docket for trial; and when those are settled, there will be something more.

The excitement of the music, the general air of exhilaration about the place and their own high-pitched mood made the occasion different from the other gaieties of the week, merrier, madder, a little more reckless.

A little exhilaration begetting a shout or two, would not have surprised us; but even this, we are happy to say, made no part of their manifestation of joy.

He and the others, standing erect and working on the wire, naturally drew a heavy proportion of the aimed fire; but Everton was only conscious of an uplifting exhilaration, a delight that he should have had the chance at such a prominent position.

Locomotive driving at a hundred miles an hour is but mild exhilaration as compared to the feelings of the motor-car driver who travels at fifty miles an hour on the public highway.

A strange exhilaration and a wild desire to celebrate possessed me.

One day Rossetti had invited us all to dinner, and when we went down to the drawing-room there was great exhilaration, Swinburne leading the fun.

But there is very little mental exhilaration in a hearth-rug.

Even if it weren't for the exhilaration of riding, it's a luxury to wear these clothes.

It was the exhilaration of the spectacle that kept us from dropping from fatigue.

The exhilaration of the wild bird, and the happiness of the deer and the hare in the woods and fields, call to his mind day by day.

(eagerly, with a great accession of exhilaration in my voice).

185 examples of  exhilaration  in sentences