They gave me quiet at least, and saved me from the wickedness of the nightly use of certain expletives, under the excitement of the occasion, which are not to be found in any of the religious works of the day.

It made quite an excitement in our quiet street the first time he arrived after ten o'clock.

" We found that all was excitement at the post; double guards had been put on duty, and Captain Parker had all the scouts at his headquarters.

He was picked up and carried amid great excitement to the house of a neighbor.

Even the dread atmosphere of the doctor's study could not restrain some show of excitement on the part of those interested in this disclosure, but it was quickly suppressed.

Soon all was excitement among the officers and soldiers, every one being anxious to charge the village.

They had left the one white layman at Nulato seething with excitement over an Indian's report of still another rich strike up yonder on the Koyukuk, and this point, where they were solemnly staking out a new post, the Nulato Agent had said, was "dead sure to be a great centre."

There's excitement for you worth talking about.

His idea was to remove them from the secret drawer after the excitement about the murder died down, and then blackmail Mrs. Holymead, but she acted with a skill and decision that robbed him of his chance to blackmail her.

" "And you think," said De Chauxville, suppressing his excitement with an effort, "that the lady has risked every thing upon a supposition?

There may have been single games and there may have been series which have attracted their full measure of interest from the Base Ball "fans," but there never has been a special series so filled with thrills and excitement as that between the New York and Boston clubs.

* Between the conviction and execution of the condemned Indians there was great excitement throughout the Minnesota valley lest the president should pardon the condemned.

There was a groan of excitement from the spectators, and at the sound rather than at the weight of his back, Diablo crouched.

Never had the gridiron been the scene of greater excitement than in that rousing moment.

As I looked back on the voyage, with what I took to be a clearer vision, I could not but admit that the incidents were in themselves trivial enougha natural excitement by a superstitious negro, a little tall talk that meant nothing.

The assassination of Kotzebue, the dramatic author, by a political fanatic, for his supposed complicity with the despotic schemes of the Czar, kindled popular excitement into a blazing flame, but still more fiercely incited the sovereigns of Germany to make every effort to suppress even liberty of thought.

"There is no more remarkable example in history of the contagious quality of ideas than the sudden spread of revolutionary excitement through Europe in 1848.

CHAPTER XXXVIII Norgate found himself in an atmosphere of strange excitement during his two hours' waiting at the House of Commons on the following day.

He arrived there toward the end of the month of May, by which time the public excitement against us, or at least the exterior signs of it, had a good deal subsided.

Grim exploded; and Lord, he was hard put to it to keep excitement within bounds.

There was a strange hurry and excitement around him, and the girl paid less attention to him.

"His present trouble is nervous strain, aggravated by the unaccustomed confinement, and some mental excitement under which he is laboring.

I noticed this now in my excitement without any distinct association of thoughts, for that I was not capable of; but the black border caught my eye.

The boats came flashing by at last, and there was the usual excitement amongst the spectators; but it seemed to Gilbert that Mrs. Branston found more interest in John Saltram's conversation than in the race.

I have no doubt he would have undergone personal privation to have relieved their distress, and endured both pain and labor, with such an excitement before him.