120 Verbs to Use for the Word thrill

To read the lives of Wesley, Whitefield, Finney, Moody, is to feel a strange, deep thrill.

It opened its mouth, and, for the first time, the stillness of that abominable place was broken, by a deep, booming note that sent an added thrill of apprehension through me.

It gives a strange new thrill to life, to realize that we may be just as ambitious as we please, that we may long earnestly for high things, and work for them, if our inmost desire is not for self but for God.

For the first time in the evening, Mr. Robertson Jones experienced a thrill of pleasure.

There was a hitch somewhere; McGaffey muttered naughty words under his breath and plied wrenches and screwdrivers in a way that brought a thrill of anxiety, approaching fear, to every heart.

How good it would be, my brother, If this Christmas-time we could only know That same sweet thrill of the Long Ago When we shared in the gift for Mother.

I remember, too, the strange thrill I had one day, when, having passed the sawmills and dumps of stores and shells and the huddle of Headquarter offices at Granezza, I came out on the last edge of the mountain wall, into sudden full view of the great plain below, full of rivers and cities, and saw, for the first time from up here, the sunlight flashing on a strip of distant golden sea.

Joe also did the big swing, which always caused a thrill on account of the danger involved.

Any student of a foreign language, German for instance, can recall the thrill of discovery and the lift of reawakened hope that came to him when first he suspected, aye perceived, the existence of verbal matrimony.

It was some time before I lost the thrill of novelty and excitement produced by this halt-who-goes-there-advance-friend-and-give-the-countersign business.

The beastly answer to that question was that she had enjoyed the thrill of his uncertaintya miserable sort of feline coquetry.

The tragedian is one who is thrilled with awe and sorrow, and strives to excite a like thrill in others.

And even should any fail to see, as now I see, the shadowed picture and conception of that to which one may well give the accepted titles of Heaven and Hell; yet can I promise certain thrills, merely taking the story as a story.

Something which wakes a deeper thrill, These few brief words unfold, Than all description's proudest skill Could of that hour have told.

To begin with, I have owned I was a fool; but things were dreary and I wanted a thrill.

As usual she sought to comfort him, but he heard a thrill of triumph as well as sympathy in her words.

"I'd have given all I had to know; but, of course, I could not ask the servants!" Surprise, disappointment, hurt pride that he had had no desire to know gave quick place to a comprehension that set a little thrill tingling her from head to foot.

Yes, the war whoop of the Indian may produce a pleasant thrill When mellowed by the distance that one feels increasing still; And the shrilling of the whistle from the engine's brazen snout May have minor tones of music, though I never found it out.

If vatted wine in dark cellars turns in its bed and mutters seethingly at this time, in a mysterious, intuitive sympathy with the blossoming grape, a man free and above ground, with eyes to behold that miracle, may hardly hope to escape an answering thrill to its call.

After describing the battle itself, the officer reverted to incidents preceding it, saying: "I shall never forget the thrill which passed through the men on the ships of the grand fleet when that inspiring message was received from the battle-cruiser squadron many leagues away: 'I am engaged with heavy forces of the enemy.'

When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad earth's aching breast Runs a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from east to west, And the slave, where'er he cowers, feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energy sublime Of a century, bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time.

They've got lots o' thrills about 'em, too.

She quivered as before, but this was a long, shuddering thrill shot over her by that spoken affirmation.

Where 'er she goes her presence thrills, And in her youthfulness there shines The everlasting of our hills, The evergreenness of our pines.

Locksley Hall communicates the thrill which he felt from the new possibilities of science: "For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

120 Verbs to Use for the Word  thrill