3782 examples of thrill in sentences

Now, every man and woman in the kingdom would feel a thrill of horror if told that a fellow creature was to be put to death for such a cause.

I know that I am playing with fire, and I feel the thrill which accompanies that most fascinating pastime; and, back of it all, I think I find a sort of savage and diabolical desire to gather up all the little tragedies of my life, and turn them into a practical joke on society.

I can still recall the thrill of joy, excitement, and wonder it gave me to go on an exploring expedition through it, to find the blackberries, both ripe and green, that grew along the edge of the fence.

Whether it was my companion's suggestion or some latent dare-devil strain in my blood which suddenly sprang into activity I do not know; but with a thrill of excitement which went through my whole body I threw a twenty-dollar bill on the table and said in a trembling voice: "I fate you.

Whose heart will thrill with pride at such success?

She wakes not with the thrill Of joy produced by strains so mild, But fancy moulds them gay and wild.

she said, with a thrill of anxiety in her tone.

Katherine felt herself thrill and flutter with delight, even while she trembled with dread at the thought of her father having to meet Mr. Selincourt face to face.

I owe my life to you," the stranger said, with a sudden thrill of feeling in his voice.

"No indeed!" exclaimed Katherine, with a thrill of indignation in her tone.

Will it make you thrill?" "It always has," replied Katie.

I don't know who has the right to thrill to it, if you haven't.

"I used to have the real thrill for that toast.

That 'right or wrong' is a spirit I can thrill to no longer.

His mind reverted to the place where he had last seen Sandy, and then a sudden wave of illumination swept over him, and filled him with a thrill of horror.

"There's no thrill in knitting," she would answer.

As she passes, like a dart To each luckless fellow's heart Leaps a throbbing thrill and smart, When his eye has sought her; Tries he then his sight to bless With one glimpse of face or tress Does she know it?well, I guess!

In the well-known novel by Mr. Wilkie Collins of Poor Miss Finch, the blind girl distinguishes the twin she loves by the touch of his hand, which gives her a thrill that the touch of the other brother does not.

He sleeps in the cemetery near Somerville, New Jersey, so near father and mother that he will face them when he rises in the Resurrection of the Just, and amid a crowd of kindred now slumbering on the right of him, and on the left of him, he will feel the thrill of the Trumpet that wakes the dead.

I think that the harps throbbed with another thrill, and the hills quaked with a mightier hallelujah.

" "War?"' "It looks very much like it!" Though almost expected, the news gave us a thrill.

But the thrill of those early days, when he rode alone and free and men sang of him from Sonora to the Sweetgrass Hills!

Naturally I sustained a thrill, and bethought me of the rifle.

Some of the thrill and interest in the forest subsided for me.

Who could doubt that it is divine and not inspired by hell as I once feared; it is so beautiful, so hopelessly beautiful, like that faint thrill of splendor that passes shadowing a dream where, for an instant, we think to see a tiny corner of heaven sparkling out through a million fathoms of terrific night....

3782 examples of  thrill  in sentences