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  • "One heave," cried Jack, exulting, "and—wheee—!"†   (source)
  • By the same magic, Mrs. Barbour's invitation seemed to extend beyond the summer and far into the horizon, as if the entire Atlantic Ocean lay between me and Grandpa Decker; the lift was dizzying, and all I could do was exult in my reprieve.†   (source)
  • Then the exultation was simply buried in shame, and he felt the way he had after he had broken Danny's arm.†   (source)
  • Some kind of a life of piety, at any rate (which should guarantee that Adah's nowhere within a hundred miles); and I should like to spend as much time as I can outdoors, exulting in God's creation, and wear pants if at all possible.†   (source)
  • The idea caused moments of exultation.†   (source)
  • He was exulting to the sky.†   (source)
  • And so they spent hours there, watching the birds come and go, feeding them from their palms, exulting in the familiarity that allowed the birds to land on their arms and shoulders.†   (source)
  • The look on his face was a mixture of exultation and self-loathing.†   (source)
  • Exultation, fear, confusion and guilt.†   (source)
  • It was wild and exulting, like a hawk's shrill cry.†   (source)
  • While she enjoyed the endless coverage and exultation of Amy Elliott Dunne.†   (source)
  • Just before the film ended, he realized in a flash of exultation that he had never been so close, so long, to the one he loved so much.†   (source)
  • " " …. trapped in a cave at …… " And there was no mistaking the victorious exultation in the Harkonnen gibberish that poured from the other bands.†   (source)
  • Jacob crowed with undisguised exultation when I called to give him the news, and he seemed eager enough to embrace Edward's safety measures.†   (source)
  • Thus the banquet was the exultation, the harmony, the acceptance of physical frailty, joy in the termination of misery.†   (source)
  • In his journal, Farmer exulted.†   (source)
  • The important thing was to outthink the enemy, find his weakness, let him have his moment of exultation.†   (source)
  • A full minute elapsed, and Dewey exulted in Smith's silence, for an innocent man would ask who was this witness, and who were these Clutters, and why did they think he'd murdered them-would, at any rate, say something.†   (source)
  • The ghosts cheered and threw spectral confetti as Bacchus strode around the stadium with his arms raised triumphantly, exulting in the worship.†   (source)
  • The wonder of it brought tears to his eyes and a smile of wild exultation that dispelled all his doubts and fears in a surge of pure emotion.†   (source)
  • "Now!" exulted the voice.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes, exulting in the sudden flow of thoughts.†   (source)
  • For the Seabiscuit crew and for America, it was the beginning of five uproarious years of anguish and exultation.†   (source)
  • Jenks exulted.†   (source)
  • Bologna should have exulted Dunbar, because the minutes dawdled and the hours dragged like centuries.†   (source)
  • He exults, slapping tree branches with his up-stretched hand as he walks.†   (source)
  • Father only smiled and said, "Surely such exultation comes from God?"†   (source)
  • They exulted in it.†   (source)
  • Amidst all their exultations, Americans and Frenchmen should remember that the perfectibility of man is only human and terrestrial perfectibility.†   (source)
  • Always there were two feelings in the dream--a wild exultation that now I was free of her and…terrible guilt.†   (source)
  • Margaery Tyrell is done, she thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • When Dresden was destroyed later on, incidentally, Lazzaro did not exult.†   (source)
  • He had laughed in triumph, in deliverance, in a spurting, living exultation-and the words which he had not pronounced, but felt, were: God bless you, Ellis, whatever you're doing!†   (source)
  • There was no fear, only exultation, as the horse moved fast and light over the ground, as the wind whipped a storm in his face.†   (source)
  • The record labels, don't merely celebrate nonstandard English, they exult in misuse and misspelling, as if it's cool to show that you have learned nothing at school.†   (source)
  • After issuing this statement, he pumped in a perfect twenty-five-foot jump shot that robbed the crowd of its exultancy and confidence.†   (source)
  • "It will only take a moment!" she says, exulting.†   (source)
  • Music, archery, fencing, poetry … the demons dominated them all, and their growing exultation was unbearable.†   (source)
  • Most of the time, though, I exult, and think I have had a narrow escape.†   (source)
  • The heart is a wheel that exultation can spin so fast that it can break apart.†   (source)
  • We must give the last word to an Alabama lieutenant who exulted in the name of Rebel.†   (source)
  • HARRIET TUBMAN'S moment of exultation passed quickly.†   (source)
  • There was an exultation, a huge delight: I was alive.†   (source)
  • Just as she reached the landing she heard Brahms' Alto Rhapsody on the phonograph, Marian Anderson's flowering dark exultancy, triumph wrested from eons of despair.†   (source)
  • He bled the doe clean, then butchered out one loin and took it back to his camp, exulting.†   (source)
  • People were streaming out into the alley, pounding each other delightedly on the back, and roaring with exultation.†   (source)
  • But as I raised and bent that bow and felt the power of it, I felt a surge of exultance—this tool was right for me!†   (source)
  • The air sounded with mighty cries of joy and the noise of their passage as they swept about Hellwell, changing shape constantly and exulting in their freedom.†   (source)
  • I threw myself at it, pinioning the arms savagely; thrust at it and beat it to the ground; fell on it with fury; felt the weak struggles of the body beneath mine like the feeble fluttering of a trapped bird, and exulted.†   (source)
  • He did not know why, but there arose in him an exultation and a sense of power, and he ran up the hill like an engine, or a madman, willing to throw himself headlong into the city that glowed before him.†   (source)
  • In panic-and, it struck him, in exultation-seek a stranger.†   (source)
  • It was cold, and she felt only relief and exultation.†   (source)
  • The chief led then, trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement.†   (source)
  • With a final joyous exultation, the camerlegno turned and dashed back into St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • He regretted it, and he exulted in his mistake.†   (source)
  • Oh, never mind! my less noble side exulted.†   (source)
  • Her face was alive with exultation, all the despair wiped clean from her perfect features.†   (source)
  • I am the wood, and everything that's in it, he thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • And then, as he met my awed gaze, he broke into a breathtaking smile of exultation.†   (source)
  • Exultation swept through both Mel and me.†   (source)
  • My oh my, you're really growing up, look at you," exults Mr. Taylor.†   (source)
  • She came back a few minutes later, laughing in uncontrollable exultation.†   (source)
  • I exulted when I heard my feet touch the grass first.†   (source)
  • He's going to lose, she told herself, exulting, as Lord Beric's flaming sword whirled and slashed.†   (source)
  • Robb will kill you all, she thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • But Adams was incapable of exulting as others were over the plight of the French monarch.†   (source)
  • Despite the weather, Roran soared and exulted with his joy at Katrina's acceptance.†   (source)
  • Some small part of her knew that she was dreaming, but another part exulted.†   (source)
  • This certainty did not fill her with exultation, but with fear.†   (source)
  • I beat on my chest a couple of times and exulted in the crisp, cool air of late morning.†   (source)
  • We wandered about the island exulting in the aloneness.†   (source)
  • The thought of Jace in the same house she lived in, always nearby, filled her with a mixture of exultation and horror.†   (source)
  • Rameck, especially, was reminded of his days when he exulted in the audience applause back in high school.†   (source)
  • Still in the grip of his temper and his shame at mocking George's stutter, his first thought had been a sick sort of exultation: For the first time in his life George Hatfield had wanted something he could not have.†   (source)
  • I exulted.†   (source)
  • He drew the last word out, savoring it with a delicious exultation as he moved forward into the room.†   (source)
  • …desert, we came into Salina, Kansas ("Crossroads of America") — twenty minute rest stop, under a moth-beaten sodium lamp, where Popper and I ran around a deserted gas station parking lot in the dark, my head still full of the book while also exulting in the strangeness of being in my mother's state for the first time in my life—had she, on her rounds with her father, ever driven through this town, cars rushing past on the Ninth Street Interstate Exit, lighted grain silos like starships…†   (source)
  • The retrenchers' report had been too harsh, too much a rebuke, at a time when the mood throughout Chicago was one of sustained exultation at the fact that the fair had gotten built at all and that it had proven more beautiful than anyone had imagined.†   (source)
  • But exultation returned.†   (source)
  • The word had never meant a thing before, though Briony had heard it exulted at a thousand school and church occasions.†   (source)
  • Mortati longed to feel his heart swept up in the miraculous exultation he saw in the faces around him.†   (source)
  • Exulting, she shook it back and forth in her mouth, scattering the warm red droplets amidst the cold black rain.†   (source)
  • I am walking, he thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • And yet he couldn't deny that he exulted in moments like this, the guys leaning forward in anticipation, the mystery that surrounded them all, the kid Goober white-faced and frightened, the place so quiet you could almost hear your own heartbeat.†   (source)
  • This time he took the wight's head off at the neck, and for half a moment he exulted …. until a pair of dead hands came groping blindly for his throat.†   (source)
  • Jumping to his feet, Max stood at the bedside and exulted in the thrill of discovery as the dark grains snaked into discernible letters.†   (source)
  • Yossarian declared, jumping all about also and roaring in laughing exultation at the walls, the ceiling, the chaplain and Major Danby.†   (source)
  • We shout in exultation of our victory over the river, and as there is no one to tell us to temper our outburst, the cheer echoes for a full minute.†   (source)
  • Exultation that brought the rebel Indian yell rumbling from his chest and out his throat, screaming, savage.†   (source)
  • Now, surveying his handiwork, the crowded bleachers, the frantic comings and goings as the raffle tickets were bought and sold and the directions scrawled on the tickets, Archie exulted quietly.†   (source)
  • She found herself, in terror, twisting her body to resist, and, in exultation, twisting her arms around him, holding him, letting her lips bring blood to his, knowing that she had never wanted him as she did in this moment.†   (source)
  • It's so sweet," Long exults.†   (source)
  • No last words; but as they held his arms and legs in the death throes, the old sinewy body would bow up from the floor, and the wild scream of the exulting rebel's challenge to hated government would come from his throat and he would die.†   (source)
  • Now Adams wrote to Jefferson, "The love of God and His creation, delight, joy, triumph, exultation in my own existence …. are my religion."†   (source)
  • I shout in exultation.†   (source)
  • Felicity exults.†   (source)
  • Ann exults.†   (source)
  • "The Nile," all of them shouted, poking each other with their fingers and exulting in the breadth of their education.†   (source)
  • I was the troublemaker they always feared and they exulted when I was permanently exiled, yet they were often kind to me and did me many favors that were unsolicited and spontaneous.†   (source)
  • For the first time, the word brought exultancy to him, a lifting of the spirit.†   (source)
  • The first American play to be produced on stage, it opened with the lines: Exult each patriot heart!†   (source)
  • Though every robber may deserve death, yet to exult over the wretched is what our country is not accustomed to.†   (source)
  • They could not stop it, she thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • She had come to the party filled with a strange feeling of anxious exultation.†   (source)
  • I believe that the Z type of submarine is causing great exultation in naval circles.†   (source)
  • Agravaine, exulting in his cold mind, thought: "Hoist with his own petard!"†   (source)
  • The unrepeatable exultation was in knowing that they both understood this.†   (source)
  • She was here with the news and was in such a state of radiant exultation as I have never seen.†   (source)
  • He exulted in his youth, and he believed that he could never die.†   (source)
  • Leo's clashing skates heightened the exultation of his voice.†   (source)
  • And then as he exulted he was smitten with fear.†   (source)
  • And with a laugh, actually a laugh of exultation, Helmholtz Watson pushed his way through the crowd.†   (source)
  • 'But soon, too soon,' said Bernard, 'this egotistic exultation fails.†   (source)
  • He was a lord of darkness; he exulted in the lonely sufficiency of his work.†   (source)
  • He understood; he exulted in its evil—which was the evil of earth, of illicit nature.†   (source)
  • The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exultation.†   (source)
  • In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it.†   (source)
  • Esther exulted.†   (source)
  • — God knows, I did not care; it was the sort of word that schoolgirls had for hockey, wildly inappropriate to those past weeks of misery and exultation.†   (source)
  • There were two beds; he exulted in his unaccustomed occupancy of an entire mattress, dreaming of the day of manlike privacy.†   (source)
  • The news reached Atlanta almost simultaneously with the news of the victory at Chancellorsville, and the town fairly rocked with exultation and with laughter.†   (source)
  • He turned away with secret exultation.†   (source)
  • He does not look up, yet through him there seems to go a wave of exultation, of triumph, before he can curb and hide it, when it is too late to try.†   (source)
  • At one moment, when the cries of exultation in the distance were swelling to a roar, Tarrou stopped abruptly.†   (source)
  • For, the moment I'd pictured myself in freedom, standing behind a double rank of policemen--on the right side of the line, so to speak--the mere thought of being an onlooker who comes to see the show, and can go home and vomit afterward, flooded my mind with a wild, absurd exultation.†   (source)
  • The river dashed through the grounds; and there I saw Jack catch a salmon; for the first time after those desperate months he looked triumphant; and worn as he [had] come to look, I was struck by his sudden exultation as the line tautened and he held the fish there in the river.†   (source)
  • …dogs (they had to drag the dogs away from the tree, but especially away from the sapling pole with the architect's suspenders tied to it, as if it was not only that the pole was the last thing the architect had touched but it was the thing his exultation had touched when he saw another chance to elude them, and so it was not only the man but the exultation too which the dogs smelled that made them wild) made casts in all directions, getting further and further away until just before…†   (source)
  • He was impelled toward murder as much through the thirst for excitement, exultation, and elation as he was through fear!†   (source)
  • "Let us all go!" she cried, moving on, as if all those riders and horses had filled her with childlike exultation and made her forget her pity.†   (source)
  • The face of an exulting devil.†   (source)
  • The feeling of resentment and the balked longing for some kind of fulfilment and exultation"in degrees more or less intense and in actions more or less conscious"stalk day by day through this land.†   (source)
  • He did not know that it was there, but when he found in which direction it ran, it seemed like an omen to him in his exultation.†   (source)
  • Golz, he thought in a mixture of horror and exultation as a man might feel hearing that a business enemy had been killed in a particularly nasty motor accident or that some one you hated but whose probity you had never doubted had been guilty of defalcation.†   (source)
  • So he felt anger that he should find exultation only in the wilderness, that this great sense of hope had to be lost when he would return to men and men's work.†   (source)
  • In himself there was this new exultation which he was ashamed to make articulate even to his own heart, "This woman of mine likes me well enough!"†   (source)
  • The youth upon its back rode lightly, balanced lightly, leaning well forward, exulting perhaps at that moment as Faustus had, of having put behind now at once and for all the Shalt Not, of being free at last of honor and law.†   (source)
  • But as though answering his suppressed scream of exultation, noises in the hallway, wrangling, angry, confused, battered like turbulent waves against the door.†   (source)
  • Their titter, their gossip, offends me; breaks into my stillness, and nudges me, in moments of purest exultation, to remember our degradation.†   (source)
  • For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.†   (source)
  • …that the defendant has committed one of the darkest crimes in our memory" for if we can encompass the life of this man and find out what has happened to him, if we can understand how subtly and yet strongly his life and fate are linked to ours"if we can do this, perhaps we shall find the key to our future, that rare vantage point upon which every man and woman in this nation can stand and view how inextricably our hopes and fears of today create the exultation and doom of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Ta!" he exulted.†   (source)
  • She had been looking at the table-cloth, and it had flashed upon her that she would move the tree to the middle, and need never marry anybody, and she had felt an enormous exultation.†   (source)
  • He was repeating something, and she knew it was poetry from the rhythm and the ring of exultation, and melancholy in his voice: Come out and climb the garden path, Luriana Lurilee.†   (source)
  • And when, after a long time, the room went dark, and there was the slow, silent, creeping movement of the woman beside him, an exultation filled him fit to break his body.†   (source)
  • It was that, looking at him, a man would know that at some time in his life he would reach some crisis in his own foolishness when he would change his name, and that he would think of Brown to change it to with a kind of gleeful exultation, as though the name had never been invented.†   (source)
  • He read every paper he could lay his hands on, exulting in the defeats that were forcing the Germans back at every point.†   (source)
  • …inwardleaning heads, smoking steadily, lighting and throwing away their constant cigarettes, and the waitress, the woman not much larger than a child going back and forth to the kitchen with her arms overladen with dishes, having to pass on each journey within touching distance of the men who leaned with their slanted hats and spoke to her through the cigarette smoke, murmured to her somewhere near mirth or exultation, and her face musing, demure, downcast, as if she had not heard.†   (source)
  • He exulted in the great length of his limbs and his body, through which the mighty liquor could better work its wizardry.†   (source)
  • Here, while the western sky reddened, he raced down toward the goal, passing the ball to a companion, exulting in his growing swiftness, agility, and expertness in shooting the basket.†   (source)
  • Joy awoke in him, and exultation.†   (source)
  • He exulted in his popularity among the students, his heart pounded with pride under all the pins and emblems, but he resented being considered an eccentric, and he envied those of his fellows who were elected to office for their solid golden mediocrity.†   (source)
  • Exulting in the howl of the beaten wind about the house, the thunder of great trees, he committed himself to the dark storm, releasing the mad devil's hunger all men have in them, which lusts for darkness, the wind, and incalculable speed.†   (source)
  • He developed blinding speed, bending all the young suppleness of his long thin body behind the ball, exulting as it smoked into the pocket of the mitt with a loud smack, or streaked up with a sharp dropping curve.†   (source)
  • Sheeted in his thin nightgown, he stood in darkness by the orchard window of the back room at Gant's, drinking the sweet air down, exulting in his isolation in darkness, hearing the strange wail of the whistle going west.†   (source)
  • Secure and conscious now in the guarded and sufficient strength of home, he lay with well-lined belly before the roasting vitality of the fire, poring insatiably over great volumes in the bookcase, exulting in the musty odor of the leaves, and in the pungent smell of their hot hides.†   (source)
  • The child came up the gummed trunk like a cat: Eugene rocked from the slender spiral topmost bough, exulting in his lightness, the tree's resilient strength, and the great morning-clarion fragrant backyard world.†   (source)
  • Behind a wooden partition was his ware-room, layered with stonedust—coarse wooden trestles on which he carved inscriptions, stacked tool-shelves filled with chisels, drills, mallets, a pedalled emery wheel which Eugene worked furiously for hours, exulting in its mounting roar, piled sandstone bases, a small heatblasted cast-iron stove, loose piled coal and wood.†   (source)
  • "Tha' die!" he said with dry exultation.†   (source)
  • In the cool air outside, as he walked to his house, he exulted in his refusal to be helped.†   (source)
  • She looked up, and saw Nettie's eyes resting on her with tenderness and exultation.†   (source)
  • 'The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me.†   (source)
  • I could have leaped out of the water with that momentary exultation.†   (source)
  • Jane Withersteen had one moment of exultation before the dawn of a strange uneasiness.†   (source)
  • As they strode off, McKisco, in exultation, gripped his arm.†   (source)
  • "I knew it!" said Mrs. Lynde, with the exultation of a correct guesser.†   (source)
  • Yet, in each man, excepting Gulden, there was that striking aspect of exultation.†   (source)
  • He ran on it thought, almost exulting, the while he laughed and chatted, and Drouet felt nothing.†   (source)
  • He was thrilling and exulting in ways new to him and greater to him than any he had known before.†   (source)
  • But Shefford thrilled with both fear and exultation.†   (source)
  • "And she exults so in taking you from me—she's not like ordinary girls."†   (source)
  • But instead of achieving calmness she grew more and more towards a strange state of exultation.†   (source)
  • He could get up no exultation that was really worthy the name.†   (source)
  • He exulted thus at the idea that he had "paid out the stuck-up beggar after all."†   (source)
  • Pilchuck leaped up with a hoarse command, which his men answered in wild exulting whoops.†   (source)
  • I've dreamed of her all these years and now I've found her!" he exulted.†   (source)
  • Jennie, we're going to get away!" he cried, exultation for her in his voice.†   (source)
  • When she leaped she uttered a strange, low, sweet cry of wildness and exultation.†   (source)
  • Carol hastened out of the shop exulting, "She didn't make fun of me….†   (source)
  • They sat on the back stoop, exulting in freedom from Tozers.†   (source)
  • "None escape," said the Wolf-bear, laughing into my face with the exultation of hunting.†   (source)
  • It was just an exclamation, horrible to hear, but it did not express satisfaction or exultation.†   (source)
  • Two days had passed since he had seen her, and his exultation had not left him for a moment.†   (source)
  • His features were still composed, but his eyes shone with amused exultation.†   (source)
  • I could have TOLD Judy," he repeated, exulting in the implied superiority over his wife.†   (source)
  • "Good night, dear love—my love forever," he exulted.†   (source)
  • There was a knock at the door, and they all gave a shout of exultation.†   (source)
  • It was harsh, piercing, unnatural, yet it had a note of wild exultation.†   (source)
  • I felt more than a touch of exultation too, at having distanced my pursuers.†   (source)
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