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  • He missed the jubilant welcome for the returning troops at Halifax, the victory parades and so forth, but there was a special reception in Port Ticonderoga just for him.†   (source)
  • One year it might be March 21 at 5:32 A.M., while the next year it might occur on March 20 at I 1:54 P.M. Every Iranian knows the exact moment the jubilation begins.†   (source)
  • Chuck's jubilation visibly crashed to the ground as his eyes sank down toward the floor.†   (source)
  • I have sung in Carnegie Hall, chanting with a group of choir cadets acting as a jubilant Army preparing for war, and I've stood in humbled silence at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.†   (source)
  • I would fall back, exhausted but jubilant.†   (source)
  • May and I both had a terrible addiction to sweets anyway, and she was jubilant that this was how I was choosing to spend my money.†   (source)
  • Ron made a noise that might have indicated jubilation or disgust, it was hard to tell.†   (source)
  • She pictured Zalmai, his jubilant, running welcomes when Rasheed came home and Rasheed picking him up by the elbows and swinging him round and round until Zalmai's legs flew straight out, the two of them giggling afterward when Zalmai stumbled around like a drunk.†   (source)
  • Jillson appeared in the cafeteria, a jubilant grin on her face, and came straight over to their table.†   (source)
  • She stood and faced us and gave not an ounce of herself to the jubilation across the gym.†   (source)
  • I remember going to the empty lot where there was one such screen and watching an endless parade of tanks and jubilant German soldiers as they rolled through the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France in May and June of 1940.†   (source)
  • She was cheerful—jubilant, really—and her mood improved when the servants coiled her braided hair onto the back of her head and dressed her in a surprisingly fine riding habit that concealed her miserably thin form.†   (source)
  • While the jubilation was going on, I was placed in the hands and care of older women who couldn't dance much anymore.†   (source)
  • Katherine is 4 much more jubilant soul than my grandmother, but she has a certain twinkling sarcasm—and the proper elocution, the good diction—that reminds me of Grandmother.†   (source)
  • Mortati was about to demand a full-scale search of Vatican City when a roar of jubilation erupted outside in St. Peter's Square.†   (source)
  • The city was in the midst of a jubilant gala.†   (source)
  • Her jubilant feet came suddenly to a halt.†   (source)
  • "God!" he said jubilantly, slapping the table, so loudly that I flinched.†   (source)
  • His clothes flew off behind him as the hallways echoed with jubilant proclamations about the superiority of underwear.†   (source)
  • I wondered why some students were jubilant, almost celebrating.†   (source)
  • Eragon opened his mind and jubilantly told Saphira,We found the Ra'zac's lair!†   (source)
  • Sometimes he flaps his wings as if he nearly remembers flight, as he did in the first jubilant terror of his release.†   (source)
  • It was Jessica, and she was jubilant; Mike had caught her after school to accept her invitation.†   (source)
  • Not ten minutes after Theismann was hauled off the field, Lawrence Taylor himself pounced on a fumble and ran to the bench, jubilant.†   (source)
  • I go again, out of joy and jubilation, the way they do in church.†   (source)
  • I might find some friendly faces there—perhaps even jubilant worshippers who would bring me peeled grapes, Oreos, and other holy offerings.†   (source)
  • Staring at her sister's jubilant reflection in the mirror, Kris felt a stab of jealousy.†   (source)
  • For years Fermina Daza had endured her husband's jubilant dawns with a bitter heart.†   (source)
  • Jubilation at this "sign of profound accord" proved premature.†   (source)
  • Sylvia waves her arms up and down and I beep the horn in response, but when I look at the sign my feelings are not jubilant at all.†   (source)
  • Saeed rolled the joint for them both, Nadia barely containing her jubilation, and wanting to hug him but restraining herself.†   (source)
  • To Perry, it seemed as though Dick were muttering jubilant mumbo-jumbo.†   (source)
  • But she did not feel jubilant.†   (source)
  • We were jubilant—that is, if men facing the death sentence can be said to be jubilant.†   (source)
  • Uncle Al shouts, spreading his arms wide in jubilation.†   (source)
  • Half of me is jubilant, but the other half is still thinking about the creature the Commandant called the Nightbringer.†   (source)
  • Her mother's jubilant voice seemed to conclude whatever had been the problem.†   (source)
  • One month after the fire, Alfred Sewell took another hike  through Chicago and returned in a jubilant mood.†   (source)
  • Her name had been called five minutes ago, but I didn't see her in the throng of jubilant, shouting, laughing women in the hall.†   (source)
  • And when the sequel was over, the analysts at JFCOM and the Pentagon were jubilant.†   (source)
  • The thing comes jumping right out of him, a jubilation, it might be heyyy-ho or it might be oh-boyyy shouted backwards or it might be something else entirely—hard to tell when they don't use words.†   (source)
  • It was here, on the Gate of Heavenly Peace, facing millions of jubilant people, that Chairman Mao declared the birth of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949.†   (source)
  • Amid the jubilation, he experienced a chill of a darker sort than Lindberg's or McEldowney's.†   (source)
  • Char was jubilant.†   (source)
  • Lestat was jubilant; he reminded me tersely that we had less than an hour to get back to Pointe du Lac, and he swore revenge on me.†   (source)
  • The old man hung a flag over the entrance of his house and did not go outside to dance because he was lame and because there was a curfew, but not because he did not want to, as he jubilantly announced to his daughter and granddaughter.†   (source)
  • 'That's Captain Black's car,' he informed them jubilantly.†   (source)
  • She was jubilant and I was elated, believing that her status would rise in her husband's home.†   (source)
  • IT WAS a wild, jubilant scene, one that I would never be able to forget.†   (source)
  • And just like that, the animals' jubilant mood wilted.†   (source)
  • Each time she succeeded was a time of intoxication: her soul would rise to the surface of her body like a crew charging up from the bowels of a ship, spreading out over the deck, waving at the sky and singing in jubilation.†   (source)
  • Voices yelled in jubilation and arms were thrust skyward in victory, perhaps exaggerated inhope but true to the spirit of the Circle.†   (source)
  • The boys' jubilation continued at the hospital, where the team went to visit Norberto.†   (source)
  • "Through Broadway we marched, round the King's statue," wrote Lieutenant Bangs, jubilant, like all the army, at the commander's presence among them once more.†   (source)
  • Each was a real person, yes, but each was also a marionette, controlled by an unseen puppet master, string-tugged into postures of jubilation, winking glass eyes and cracking wooden smiles and laughing with the thrown voices of hidden ventriloquists, for the sole purpose of deceiving Joe into believing that this was a benign world that merited delight.†   (source)
  • With a jubilant howl, the savage-looking clone dropped the rock and rushed forward with his knives.†   (source)
  • All the voices lifted in song sounded jubilant, as if they were singing the Hallelujah Chorus in the church in Sangaza at Christmastime.†   (source)
  • She was jubilant.†   (source)
  • Then Johnny fell on me, locked me into a jubilant embrace, and we rolled on the gym floor, laughing hysterically.†   (source)
  • Her awe gives way to jubilation.†   (source)
  • When he finished, he was nearly pushed overboard by the jubilant tribesmen who ran down the gangway and the docks, falling to their knees and kissing the ground of Freetown.†   (source)
  • I used to wish that I were more like my Jewish and Italian friends, or even the black kids who hung out in front of my father's stores; I was envious of how they'd speak so confidently, so jubilantly celebrate the fact with their hands and hips and tongues, letting it all hang out (though of course in different ways) for anybody who'd look and listen.†   (source)
  • Rising on a rock face was cause for an inner jubilation that, perhaps because it could not find an exit past the discipline and caution necessary to stay on, spun like the gleaming armature of an electric motor and stabilized the soul of the climber as surely as if it had been a gyroscope.†   (source)
  • He sounded jubilant.†   (source)
  • The victors are jubilant, but the vanquished are furious, more than capable of venting their rage on the man they hold responsible for their defeat.†   (source)
  • I envisioned Jack hitting home runs, Lilly dancing across the stage, Caroline's jubilation when I brought her a quarter of a million dollars in a gym bag ….†   (source)
  • In one moment of besotted jubilation he spoke of how Idi Amin himself would stop breathing at the mention of his name, so widespread was his reputation for matching — even surpassing — Amin's strategy of brutality.'†   (source)
  • In Ramallah and Jericho there was jubilation.†   (source)
  • I knocked and entered as the last record ceased playing, and the great barge with its jubilant trumpets vanished around a turning on the Thames.†   (source)
  • The white boy was jubilant.†   (source)
  • The crowd surges back, augmented, in a jubilant parade.†   (source)
  • We looked at each other, smiling, jubilant.†   (source)
  • The Democrats, however, were jubilant—although concealing their glee behind a facade of shocked indignation.†   (source)
  • It Won't Work, Rod" In the midst of jubilation Rod had time to notice many changes.†   (source)
  • He had expected to hear cheer of triumph and jubilation at his death,   (source)
    jubilation = high-spirited delight
  • He discovered nothing; and she went home jubilant, and dropped all concern about the matter permanently out of her mind.   (source)
  • Nevertheless we are jubilant, it's a victory, for all of us.†   (source)
  • 'It's him!' she said jubilantly at the sight of Harry on the floor.†   (source)
  • For every animal struck down, there rose an equal and opposite cry of human jubilation.†   (source)
  • Their jubilation and clapping could be heard far down the river.†   (source)
  • Saphira crowed jubilantly, which startled the horses.†   (source)
  • The atmosphere in the changing room was jubilant.†   (source)
  • "You know what he was complaining about, the old goat?" said Victor, turning to me jubilantly.†   (source)
  • The Japanese broke into jubilant smiles.†   (source)
  • "Where is it now?" asked Harry jubilantly as Ron and Hermione looked gleeful.†   (source)
  • "I am beginning life anew," he jubilantly informed a Harvard classmate.†   (source)
  • Even from a distance, Hazel could hear him creaking and clanking in jubilation.†   (source)
  • May the halls echo with the jubilation of our race.†   (source)
  • Out on the street Linnie was jubilant, hanging on to his arm and chattering away as they walked.†   (source)
  • There was so much commotion, so many cries of jubilation and people streaming past.†   (source)
  • A jubilant celebration was going on all around him; almost no one else had noticed anything amiss.†   (source)
  • Musicians strum ouds and lyres, guided by the jubilant beat of drums.†   (source)
  • At that time it all seemed more like a jubilant fair than a waiting crowd.†   (source)
  • 'By Jove, he's right,' he declared jubilantly.†   (source)
  • Soon we're all brimming with a shining power and even the walls cannot contain our jubilant cries.†   (source)
  • The musicians were now both jubilant and watchful, as though Ida had abruptly become their property.†   (source)
  • We got an A on the next film summary as well, and she was jubilant.†   (source)
  • It's simple, Bubba," he said, moving out into the jubilant crowd again.†   (source)
  • Howard, unable to control his jubilation, jumped up and down with the fans.†   (source)
  • Yossarian announced jubilantly, as he hobbled back into the ward.†   (source)
  • I can't believe I did that," he said wondrously, jubilantly.†   (source)
  • 'I've got just the twelve-year-old virgin you're looking for,' he announced jubilantly.†   (source)
  • I walked into class, a jubilant and triumphant conqueror of obstacles.†   (source)
  • My dad, who had gone to town, defiantly I imagine, returned almost jubilant.†   (source)
  • This is what the white man mistook for "jubilant living" and called "whooping it up."†   (source)
  • The professor of Bible who had initiated the project was jubilant.†   (source)
  • Or, as one scholar put it, "Despite their lowly status, they are capable of living jubilantly."†   (source)
  • "I thought so," he said jubilantly.†   (source)
  • During my years as a French student, every textbook I had ever read had elaborated upon the unforgettable jubilance known as Bastille Day, the parade down the Champs-Elysées, the fireworks, the general merriment, and the cherished memories born only of this event.†   (source)
  • Alexander is jubilant!†   (source)
  • On Saturdays the poor mulattoes, along with all their domestic animals and kitchen utensils, tumultuously abandoned their hovels of cardboard and tin on the edges of the swamps and in jubilant assault took over the rocky beaches of the colonial district.†   (source)
  • When rough weather abates, and it becomes clear that you have survived the sky's attack and the sea's treachery, your jubilation is tempered by the rage that so much fresh water should fall directly into the sea and by the worry that it is the last rain you will ever see, that you will die of thirst before the next drops fall.†   (source)
  • "he noted jubilantly on August 5, proud of achieving such a significant milestone, "BUT IN WEAKEST CONDITION OF LIFE.†   (source)
  • The giant snake, disliking the disturbance, opened its mouth wide and hissed angrily, but the Death Eaters did not hear it, so jubilant were they at Bellatrix and the Malfoys' humiliation.†   (source)
  • Kelsey was jubilant.†   (source)
  • I drank the rest of my gin and uncorked it, feeling resolute and jubilant—I was hungry, they'd restocked the crackers and cocktail snacks but this was all going to work a lot better on an empty stomach.†   (source)
  • …invisible route, trying another, more intense path, another means of proceeding without drowning in the slimy marsh that flowed from her womb, droning like a horsefly as she asked herself questions and answered in her native jargon; where was that something in the shadows that only she knew about and that she longed for just for herself, until she succumbed without waiting for anybody, she fell alone into her abyss with a jubilant explosion of total victory that made the world tremble.†   (source)
  • In the background of his speech, gunshots and angry soldiers, cursing and jubilating, almost drowned him out.†   (source)
  • Harry stared: It was indeed Katie Bell, looking completely healthy and surrounded by her jubilant friends.†   (source)
  • Maniacal laughter was ringing in his ears …. he was happier than he had been in a very long time …. jubilant, ecstatic, triumphant …. a wonderful, wonderful thing had happened ….†   (source)
  • The jubilation was stopped by a group of MPs who walked into the kitchen and asked us to follow them.†   (source)
  • X. IN THE CAR, OUT on the main road again, all was jubilation: laughter, high fives, while my heart was slamming so hard I could barely breathe.†   (source)
  • So the New Fidelity weighed anchor at dawn the next day, without cargo or passengers, and with the yellow cholera flag waving jubilantly from the mainmast.†   (source)
  • Jubilant at her capitulation, Lucius threw her hand from him and ripped up his own sleeve — "STOP!" shrieked Bellatrix, "Do not touch it, we shall all perish if the Dark Lord comes now!"†   (source)
  • All Harry knew for sure was that his godfather had neither done as Voldemort wanted, nor died, for he was convinced that either outcome would have caused him to feel Voldemort's jubilation or fury course through his own body, making his scar sear as painfully as it had on the night Mr Weasley was attacked.†   (source)
  • He clinked my glass jubilantly.†   (source)
  • Dread doused Harry's jubilation; Ron was saying exactly what he had suspected and feared him to be thinking.†   (source)
  • When we heard him down there jumped-up and high on the downdraft of a winbumping around jubilantly, making lots of noise—Boris would put down his book and head downstairs, where patiently he stood listening to my dad's boring, card-by-card replay of his evening at the baccarat table, which often segued into excruciating (to me) stories of related triumphs, all the way back to my dad's college days and blighted acting career.†   (source)
  • Harry was an indispensable part of the mingled outpourings of jubilation and mourning, of grief and celebration.†   (source)
  • Their jubilation was short-lived.†   (source)
  • Jose Arcadio Buendia paid them and put his hand on the ice and held it there for several minutes as his heart filled with fear and jubilation at the contact with mystery.†   (source)
  • His emotions were liquid; his anger was a wild rage, his pleasure jubilation, his humor biting, his sorrow and empathy a bottomless abyss.†   (source)
  • Maybe some of it was sitting here today, preserved by the stadium sweepers and eventually entering the underground of memory and collection, some kid's airplaned scorecard, a few leaves of toilet tissue unfurled in jubilation from the upper deck, maybe autographed delicately by a player, the scatter of a ball game come to rest all these years later, a continent away.†   (source)
  • Their boat touched the beach just after the flag went up, and the mood among the high command turned jubilant.†   (source)
  • He had expected to feel jubilant if they killed Galbatorix, and though he was glad—and he was glad—with the king gone, he no longer knew what he was supposed to do.†   (source)
  • They lit torches, and the jumble of voices and dancing in the streets became a disciplined, jubilant procession that advanced toward the well-tended avenues of the bourgeoisie, creating the unaccustomed spectacle of ordinary citizens—factory workers in their heavy work shoes, women with babies in their arms, students in shirtsleeves—calmly marching through the private, expensive neighborhood where they had rarely ventured before, and in which they were complete foreigners.†   (source)
  • If the jubilation at Original Little League Field could be felt in downtown Williamsport, the outburst of joy in Monterrey could be felt rippling across all of Latin America.†   (source)
  • Edmund Burke, Charles Fox, and others in Parliament opposed to the war were as downcast as prominent Tories were jubilant.†   (source)
  • People in Beijing were jubilant.†   (source)
  • It is always nice to dream that we are part of a jubilant throng marching through the centuries, and Franz never quite forgot the dream.†   (source)
  • Instead, Lincoln receives the jubilant welcome of former slaves reveling in their first moments of freedom.†   (source)
  • When on March 25 word arrived that the British had abandoned Boston, setting off jubilant celebration in Philadelphia, he lost no time in advocating the immediate fortification of Boston Harbor.†   (source)
  • WALTER leans deep in the man's face, still in his jubilance) When I get to heaven gonna put on my wings, Gonna fly all over God's heaven ….†   (source)
  • The British were jubilant.†   (source)
  • The story began, "Two men who took part in the historic Iwo Jima flagraising sounded a note of sadness and disillusionment today as Buffalo jubilantly celebrated the first anniversary of V-J Day."†   (source)
  • The postwar jubilation means that Washington's theatergoers are making merry on the streets, not penned together inside watching a show.†   (source)
  • In Chicago I felt terribly alone; separated from all the people and the jubilant going-home rituals I had known in Danbury and had assumed I would one day partake in.†   (source)
  • Rebeca got her health back just as soon as she heard of the agreement, and she wrote her fiance a jubilant letter that she submitted to her parents' approval and put into the mail without the use of any intermediaries.†   (source)
  • She tried to feel jubilant about this.†   (source)
  • During the course of the first week he became accustomed to the inroads that time and the rain had made in the health of his concubine, and little by little he was seeing her as she had been before, remembering her jubilant excesses and the delirious fertility that her love provoked in the animals, and partly through love, partly through interest, one night during the second week he awoke her with urgent caresses.†   (source)
  • News of the race negotiations had broken the day before—Howard had undoubtedly leaked it to the press—and the response was nationwide jubilation.†   (source)
  • When news of fresh liberal victories was received it was celebrated with jubilant proclamations, but he would measure the real extent of them on the map and could see that his forces were penetrating into the jungle, defending themselves against malaria and mosquitoes, advancing in the opposite direction from reality.†   (source)
  • Nately ripped off his hat and earphones in one jubilant sweep and began rocking back and forth happily like a handsome child in a high chair.†   (source)
  • The next thing that was heard ofthem was that they had landed on Cabo de la Vela, coming from the smaller islands of the Antilles, and a message from the government was sent all over by telegraph and included in jubilant proclamations throughout the country announcing the death of Colonel Aureliano Buendia.†   (source)
  • Yossarian was jubilant.†   (source)
  • His eyes found Colonel Cathcart, who was still standing erect in a grinning trance, and he rushed over jubilantly and began pulling on his arm.†   (source)
  • She prepared a repugnant potion for them made out of mashed wormseed, which they both drank with unforeseen stoicism, and they sat down at the same time on their pots eleven times in a single day, expelling some rose-colored parasites that they showed to everybody with great jubilation, for it allowed them to deceive Ursula as to the origin of their distractions and drowsiness.†   (source)
  • In order that nothing would be lacking in splendor she worked like a galley slave as the repairs were under way, so that before they were finished she had ordered costly necessities for the decorations, the table service, and the marvelous invention that was to arouse the astonishment of the town and the jubilation of the young people: the pianola.†   (source)
  • He called to them jubilantly to come to the room and slammed the door in their startled faces as soon as they arrived.†   (source)
  • 'It's a deal!' he announced jubilantly.†   (source)
  • 'I don't want it,' Corporal Whitcomb snapped again, and stalked out with an angry face, suppressing a smile of great jubilation at having forged a powerful new alliance with the C.I.D. man and at having succeeded again in convincing the chaplain that he was really displeased.†   (source)
  • And in the dream of her feeling of averted evil, of safety, of answered prayer and jubilant resurrection was so piercingly hurtful that when she came awake, hearing Lotte's noise, her eyes stung with salty tears.†   (source)
  • We walked back jubilant that day in the coppery twilight already edged with black, like ashes around dying embers.†   (source)
  • The bush boy was jubilant.†   (source)
  • And more sadly somehow, the big Art Deco mural against one wall—a fine period piece done by an expert hand, with the skyline of Manhattan and silhouettes of a jazz band and chorus girls kicking up their heels—never once faced out toward a swirl of jubilant dancers but grew cracked and water-blotched and acquired a long horizontal dingy streak where a generation of neighborhood drunks had propped the backs of their heads.†   (source)
  • Peter was jubilant.†   (source)
  • She had scarcely spoken the words when he reached across her and switched it on just an instant before the Philadelphia Orchestra, with its murmurous strings, hesitant at first then jubilantly swelling, commenced that inebriate psalm to the flowering globe.†   (source)
  • Though exactly how, or why, Sophie could not fathom, her instinct combined with a certain subtle jubilation in the voice from London (which, gazing straight at Emmi now, she knew the child could not understand) told her that this news spelled for the Reich real and lasting woe.†   (source)
  • HICKEY—(jubilantly, as Chuck and Rocky enter carrying a big wicker basket) Look!†   (source)
  • I was cocksure, jubilant; at that moment I almost had the courage to claim equality.†   (source)
  • The twins looked at each other jubilantly but with some surprise.†   (source)
  • Within a month a thick hummock of muscle hardened on his shoulder: he bent jubilantly into his work.†   (source)
  • I am almost whole now; and see how jubilant I am, bringing into play all that Neville ignores in me.†   (source)
  • HOPE—(jubilantly) Bejees, fellers, I'm feeling the old kick, or I'm a liar!†   (source)
  • George Webber went to sleep upon this mystery, lying in the 508 darkness, listening to that exultancy of storm, to that dumb wonder, that enormous and attentive quietness of snow, with something dark and jubilant in his soul he could not utter.†   (source)
  • Izzy seized it jubilantly.†   (source)
  • His voice was loud and jubilant.†   (source)
  • Men that were gloomy because the gold in Johannesburg could not last forever, are jubilant and excited.†   (source)
  • When the midnight noise exploded, the tooting, sirens, horns, all that jubilation, it came in rather faint, all the windows being shut, and the nursery squalling continued just the same.†   (source)
  • "Like some fresh fish for breakfast ?" he said—everyone was excited and jubilant; and boat after boat was weighed down to the water line with fish.†   (source)
  • "Wat'd I tell ye!" he urged jubilantly, "Go on, I tell ye, it's easy as pie-Hey, you'll loin real fast!"†   (source)
  • Everybody gave parties in celebration and the fire department was kept busy fighting the flames that spread from the bonfires of jubilant small boys.†   (source)
  • The dish-faced checker, when jubilantly he told him of his appointment, said: "They asked me to go, but I wouldn't.†   (source)
  • By the slow increase of his smile when he saw me, and what there was in the flesh of his mouth more jubilant than mere smiling, also by the setting of his eyes, more clear to me than the eyes themselves in this obscurity, I realized that he had me.†   (source)
  • He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.†   (source)
  • The tide of the Confederacy's fortune was running strong and full now, sweeping the people jubilantly along on its flood.†   (source)
  • The families that perforce withdrew themselves the most from the general jubilation were those who at this hour had one of their members down with plague in hospital and, whether in a quarantine camp or at home, waited in enforced seclusion for the epidemic to have done with them as it had done with the others.†   (source)
  • "We are going to be the best of friends," said Gilbert, jubilantly.†   (source)
  • The backers of Cherokee waxed jubilant and offered ridiculous odds.†   (source)
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