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  • Though some thought it a masterpiece, Pope Urban VIII had rejected The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as too sexually explicit for the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Mention of "a quiet corner in a library" was a code for sexual ecstasy.†   (source)
  • They stayed in this amorous ecstasy until Pedro lowered his eyes and stared steadily at Tita's breasts.†   (source)
  • I've spent my entire senior year suffocating between lust and heartache, ecstasy and betrayal, and it's only getting harder to see the truth.†   (source)
  • It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.†   (source)
  • They're nearly incoherent between the alcohol they've consumed and their ecstasy at being at such a grand affair.†   (source)
  • Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Ender could see the slug-like males clinging to the walls of a dark tunnel, and the large adults carrying the infant queen to the mating room; each male in turn penetrated the larval queen, shuddered in ecstasy, and died, dropping to the tunnel floor and shriveling.†   (source)
  • One by one the other kids had given a similar gasp, one little girl transported in near-ecstasy, crying out shrilly: "I see Him!†   (source)
  • I moaned and he moaned and my mind and soul and body stood on the edge of pure ecstasy.†   (source)
  • That was a piece of cake next to guns and gangs and sexually transmitted diseases, not to mention the things parents had to be concerned about: pedophiles on the Web, designer drugs like ecstasy, school shootings, anorexia, bulimia, self-mutilation, the ozone layer, superbacteria.†   (source)
  • Her head had been thrown back in ecstasy but now she had time to raise it, shock and anger already replacing the oddly similar expression of imminent orgasm.†   (source)
  • I was transported by ecstasy in Samuel's arms.†   (source)
  • The ecstasy of that kiss.†   (source)
  • A boy with a lip piercing and a teddy bear backpack was handing out free tablets of herbal ecstasy, his parachute pants flapping in the breeze from the wind machine.†   (source)
  • He's in such a state of ecstasy, I can't bring myself to break the mood.†   (source)
  • They are all peaks, no valleys—a single, infinite burst of marital ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Dr. Urbino smiled at her from the far shore of ecstasy, and it was then that he began to think again about what she had feared.†   (source)
  • Love's arms beckon With their naked delights, And Eden's promise of ecstasies.†   (source)
  • Eventually he slept with his head lolled forward and stayed that way until Leo Lassen went shrill again in ecstasy about the game.†   (source)
  • His mother was no more, and his father seemed not to concern himself with these romantic matters, and so they proceeded in secret, and the fact that unmarried lovers such as they were now being made examples of and punished by death created a semi-terrified urgency and edge to each coupling that sometimes bordered on a strange sort of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • While he spoke these words, I drank from a bowl of the most extraordinary soup I'd ever tasted; every briny sip was a kind of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • All through nature there is a feeling of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Right before I told him he should go, I was pretty sure I'd made a sound that was a cross between a sigh of sheer bliss and a moan of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The acolytes accompanied the throbbing of the bells with their own cries, groaning and shouting in an ecstasy of passion.†   (source)
  • Immediately Moody was engulfed in a mob of robed veiled humanity that clawed at his business suit and wailed' in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Where his left hand should be was this swelled blood pudding which pulsed with such ecstasies of pain it fed forth his life, his will, his whole attention.†   (source)
  • He smiles in closed-eyed ecstasy.†   (source)
  • We ask from within your sacred circle that you give us the knowledge to speak the language of the wilds, to fly with the freedom of the bird, to live the power and grace of the feline, and to find an ecstasy and joy in life that would stir the very heights of our being.†   (source)
  • Some of her friends smoked pot, a few did cocaine or ecstasy, and one even had a nasty meth habit.†   (source)
  • Not ecstasy of the emotions but of the mind, the intellect.†   (source)
  • I exclaimed in ecstasy, seizing the Tumi.†   (source)
  • And then Edward hugged me tightly, because nothing pleased him more than my overwhelming ecstasy in this new life.†   (source)
  • Like a whirling dervish, she throws out her arms, spiraling faster into ecstasy.†   (source)
  • More probably it was the ecstasy that always seemed to be shining in Ruth's face when he bent to kiss her—an ecstasy he felt inappropriate to the occasion.†   (source)
  • It might have been a certain counterclockwise movement of the hips that marked the birth of ecstasy; a bolt of lightning that caused the first feeling of awe.†   (source)
  • Ecstasy and mushrooms and acid trips?†   (source)
  • I could feel again that ecstasy of being pressed to her, her little heart going and going.†   (source)
  • He stared at it in fascination for a long while, until he finally dared to pick up the long-handled spoon and, with a sigh of ecstasy, plunge it into the cream.†   (source)
  • He broke out the bottles of bourbon he had managed to buy on his four-day weekly circuits with the courier plane and laughed, sang, shuffled and shouted in a festival of inebriated ecstasy until he could no longer keep awake and receded peacefully into slumber.†   (source)
  • We had been through the agony and now the ecstasy of Easter was just ahead.†   (source)
  • He recalled the enormous inner space of the Old Church in Amsterdam and felt the strange incomprehensible ecstasy that void had evoked in him.†   (source)
  • The figure of St. Teresa lies limp, as if in a faint, her lips parted in ecstasy, her eyes unfocused, lids half closed.†   (source)
  • Ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The men around the tables were watching as if in ecstasy, their faces glowing with pride.†   (source)
  • …young around you, your eyes closed, face ecstatic, as I toss the word sounds in my breath, my bellows, my fountain, like bright-colored balls in a water spout-hear me, old matron, justify now this sound with your dear old nod of affirmation, your closed-eye smile and bow of recognition, who'll never be fooled with the mere content of words, not my words, not these pinfeathered flighters that stroke your lids till they flutter with ecstasy with but the mere echoed noise of the promise.†   (source)
  • All Britain was in "an ecstasy which I cannot express," a friend wrote to Henry Clinton.†   (source)
  • He stroked the cat's neck and sent him into ecstasy.†   (source)
  • He intoxicated us with his words, lifting and carrying us away into a strange ecstasy, taking each of us to that place where we kept our sweetest memories.†   (source)
  • She is crying, Jaime had realized, but whether it was from grief or ecstasy he could not have said.†   (source)
  • It has a tone of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The music increased in volume and the bodies of the two women glistened as they moved and swayed in graceless ecstasies back and forth across the stage, passing each other again and again, playing to different sections of the crowd.†   (source)
  • A week later three photographs appeared in the newspapers of this blatantly sexual act with Sir John also in the picture chatting casually to the woman whose face was in the throes of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • By eight o'clock on a Tuesday night, you will experience the ecstasy of victory or you will endure the agony of defeat.†   (source)
  • She took him in, fast and deep, her hands pressed to her own breasts as the first wave of ecstasy swamped her.†   (source)
  • She stood in her cousins room, in tortured ecstasy, poised like one of the three little pigs in prayer, drinking-in the moonlight with her gloomy cow eyes.†   (source)
  • Something explodes inside his head, the sound shattering the parking lot, the red brick wall of building behind him, the white doors, gray cement—all dissolving into broken bits of color, heading swiftly toward him as he slams his fist, hard, against that face—a sweet rush of mindless ecstasy washes out everything in perfect release and makes him whole again.†   (source)
  • The fire-hating scimitar rang in ecstasy, cleaving the charging beast in half as Drizzt brought it down.†   (source)
  • I could hardly wait for all this ecstasy and once I prayed for a long time to be dead.†   (source)
  • Which would have been masochistic ecstasy for me, probably.†   (source)
  • The ecstasy he found in her had illuminated the dead tissues and outlined the hollow of his spirit.†   (source)
  • I'll take away his Field of Ha Ha, and give him Normal places for his ecstasy--multi-lane highways driven through the guts of cities, extinguishing Place altogether, even the idea of Place!†   (source)
  • And I feel pretty safe saying that I rarely read anything for pleasure, although I've derived what I could call pure ecstasy obsessing over lines from T. S. Eliot or Gerard Manley Hopkins, my little Oxford English Dictionary, magnifying glass in hand, hellbent on getting at that one true meaning.†   (source)
  • Either Oedipa in the orbiting ecstasy of a true paranoia, or a real Tristero.†   (source)
  • She cried out in ecstasy, with marvelous shrieks, all flowing out of some primitive source of rapture quite beyond normal sensations of sweet peril.†   (source)
  • A Senators victory lifted him to ecstasy, a defeat cast him into the pit of depression.†   (source)
  • Then a breeze would move her bright hair, or she would raise her eyes, and Adam would swell out in his stomach with a pressure of ecstasy that was close kin to grief.†   (source)
  • Siddhartha spoke with ecstasy; deeply, this enlightenment had delighted him.†   (source)
  • Here, there, a flash, a flutter, an ecstasy of shrillings remind us that not all the birds have flown south.†   (source)
  • She was a theosophist, but she was also an expert on the ritual of the Orthodox Church, and even when she was toute transports, in a state of utter ecstasy, could not refrain from prompting the officiating clergy.†   (source)
  • This question always filled her with an ecstasy of hatred.†   (source)
  • She would lie on the floor in her blue overalls patting the surface so hard in ecstasy her hands and feet would blur.†   (source)
  • Lorenzo's despair had to be kindled as well as his ecstasy, and could not come without that kindling.†   (source)
  • At best, Ecstasy users are in danger of neurotoxicity and overheating. Additionally, Ecstasy pills are notoriously impure.
  • The sculpture is called "The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa."
  • She reports on the agony and the ecstasy of intense sports competition.
    ecstasy = intense happiness
  • Surely Pedro had died at the moment of ecstasy when he entered the luminous tunnel.†   (source)
  • Langdon moved past the firemen toward Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa.†   (source)
  • When Steve Kemp got back to his shop, he was in a kind of furious ecstasy.†   (source)
  • They swayed, for the rivulets of grief or of ecstasy must be rocked.†   (source)
  • The audience stilled as if a cue had been given, frozen in their half-erotic poses of ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Rains down on me, showers me with ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The fire was inside her, an agony, an ecstasy, filling her, searing her, transforming her.†   (source)
  • The relief she felt as her pain abated was so intense, it bordered on ecstasy.†   (source)
  • There is a sense of both horror and ecstasy: the East Wing!†   (source)
  • She expects me to roll my eyes in ecstasy, the way she does; she expects me to groan.†   (source)
  • The blue marble sculpture floating before me was Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa.†   (source)
  • None of the baroque ecstasy, none of the grotesque compulsion.†   (source)
  • A strange smile lights Bessie's broad face, a cross between ecstasy and fear.†   (source)
  • Who cares for ecstasy nowadays?" said another.†   (source)
  • It was a day of firsts: giving myself willingly to ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Her cry might have been agony or ecstasy or both.†   (source)
  • Nately was in ecstasy; she had never smiled at him before.†   (source)
  • You mean, when you add your columns, you have ecstasies?†   (source)
  • By the end of the evening Moody was in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes, in either the ecstasy of relief or the rigors of concentration.†   (source)
  • No such private nights of ecstasy or hushed-up drinking and sex orgies ever occurred.†   (source)
  • But the last tiny tendrils of ecstasy, infiltrating me, somehow made it enjoyable.†   (source)
  • The framed print of Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa looked slightly askew.†   (source)
  • For Senators fans there wasn't much ecstasy in life.†   (source)
  • Out of the gray throbbing an ecstasy arose.†   (source)
  • In a moment she was making incoherent noises which I took to be the music of feminine ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The ecstasy of abasement.†   (source)
  • "Look at this!" said Malfoy in ecstasy, holding up Ron's robes and showing Crabbe and Goyle, "Weasley, you weren't thinking of wearing these, were you?†   (source)
  • …blanket, and the whipping if you complained, he is in raptures; and if I add the improper behaviour of Dr. Bannerling towards me, and the cold baths naked and wrapped in a sheet, and the strait-waistcoat in the darkened room, he is almost in ecstasies; but his favourite part of the story is when poor James McDermott was hauling me all around the house at Mr. Kinnear's, looking for a bed fit for his wicked purposes, with Nancy and Mr. Kinnear lying dead in the cellar, and me almost out…†   (source)
  • Ron, an expression of ecstasy on his face, mounted the broom and zoomed off into the gathering darkness while Harry walked around the edge of the field, watching him.†   (source)
  • The serenity of sailing alone on the ink-blue Aegean Sea became his new heroin trance; the sensuality of sucking moist arni souvlakia right off the skewer became his new Ecstasy; and the rush of cliff diving into the foam-filled ravines of Mykonos became his new cocaine.†   (source)
  • The effect (described as timeless, sustained ecstasy) is elicited by certain atonal vibrations referred to as semuta music.†   (source)
  • Kassad grimaces, closes his eyes, sees… …fireballs expanding, stars dying, suns exploding in great pulses of flame, star systems perishing in an ecstasy of destruction… …he feels pain in his chest, his hips not stopping, moving faster, even as he opens his eyes and sees… …the great thorn of steel rising from between Moneta's breasts, almost impaling him as he unconsciously pulls up and back, the thornblade drawing blood which drips on her flesh, her pale flesh, reflective now, flesh as…†   (source)
  • But on the edge of the abyss he came out of his ecstasy, moved her hand away, sat up, and said in a tremulous voice: "Be careful, we have no rubbers."†   (source)
  • Then he lunged at Louie and began punching him in the face, alternating right and left fists in a violent ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Now the weight was off his feet, an ecstasy of relief spread upward through his knees and he knew he would not move again that night, however disappointed Nettle might be.†   (source)
  • But on other nights his father would only sweep him into a giggling ecstasy, through the zone of air where beer hung around his father's face like a mist of raindrops, to be twisted and turned and shaken like a laughing rag, and finally to be set down on his feet, hiccupping with reaction.†   (source)
  • An English critic had once condemned The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as "the most unfit ornament ever to be placed in a Christian Church."†   (source)
  • The note indicated that the famous Bernini sculpture, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, shortly after its unveiling, had been moved from its original location inside the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa rose up like some sort of pornographic still life …. the saint on her back, arched in pleasure, mouth open in a moan, and over her, an angel pointing his spear of fire.†   (source)
  • Clary thought of medieval paintings of saints consumed in the blaze of holy ecstasy—and the angel's wings flew wide and white before they, too, caught and blazed up, a lattice of shimmering fire.†   (source)
  • It is said that her cry of anguish and ecstasy left a crack across the face of the moon, but her blood and her soul and her strength and her courage all went into the steel.†   (source)
  • Vampyres have speculated for centuries that the ecstasy of blood drinking is the key reason humans have vilified our race.†   (source)
  • A creamy, blond! woman luxuriates under a refreshing shower, her head thrown back in seeming ecstasy, her mouth opened in a wordless cry.†   (source)
  • After a night of brilliant phosphorescence in the water, a phenomenon she had longed to witness, she wrote in ecstasy of a "blazing ocean" as far as she could see.†   (source)
  • Maybe ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Anyone who could have seen her in front of the mirror, in ecstasy over her own regal gestures, would have had reason to think that she was mad.†   (source)
  • The exhilaration of the moment vanished and he sought it in vain, like seeking ecstasy's memory an instant after jacking off and encountering only shame and guilt.†   (source)
  • As we rolled in urine and vomit, in that hideous, stinking baptism, we rolled together as a class for the first time, as though controlled by a single, invincible will, and on that night, they could not hurt us, could not touch us, could not even approach us in the ecstasy and amplitude of our solidarity.†   (source)
  • Ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The dachshund gave a little yelp, then cringed forward, shimmying with ecstasy, till his mistress, shouting something at him, stepped hurriedly over the wire guard surrounding the tree and picked him up.†   (source)
  • But Nicolas unfurled his irresistible seducer's smile, kissed her on the hand without jumping back at the sight of her filthy chipped vermilion fingernails, went into ecstasies over her rings, and passed himself off as a first cousin of Amanda's until the woman, defeated and twisting her mouth into flirtatious smiles and elephantine contortions, led him up the dusty stairs to the third floor and pointed to Amanda's door.†   (source)
  • Others, who understood the Spirit's touch which made them dance, who understood whole families bending their backs in a field while singing as from one throat, who understood the ecstasy of river baptisms under suns just like this one, did not understand this curious disorder, this headless display and so refused also to go.†   (source)
  • A round-headed, apple-cheeked boy with a thickly freckled nose and Slavic eyes leaned over the fence of the park above, and now as he saw me turn, he shrilled something to someone behind him, his face lighting up with ecstasy ….†   (source)
  • When the grotesque congregation finished, ending with another chorus of "As Tosk wrote, so shall it be," the three novitiates shook the bells in an ecstasy of religious fervor, and the resulting clamor seemed loud enough to bring down the ceiling.†   (source)
  • She had never been a hotshot in the philosophy department, had never in fact been required to think, to go beyond what was written in textbooks, and thus the wonder of her thoughts and the new knowledge they had brought: her filled her with a kind of ecstasy she had never known before.†   (source)
  • Suddenly ecstasy broken only by a galaxy of pain, as faint and bright as ancient stars gone red with collapse.†   (source)
  • Wave after wave of his beating heart passed into me as, weightless, I rocked with him, devouring him, his ecstasy, his conscious pleasure.†   (source)
  • The view from his window the morning after one of the worst March storms on record filled him with ecstasy, despite the damage done to his trees.†   (source)
  • I crushed my mouth to his, soaking up the ecstasy of his mouth on mine, his hands on me, feeling on the verge of bursting out of my skin— The cell phone in my pocket rang to life.†   (source)
  • Tereza could feel orgasm advancing from afar, and shouted No, no, no! to resist it, but resisted, constrained, deprived of an outlet, the ecstasy lingered all the longer in her body, flowing through her veins like a shot of morphine.†   (source)
  • Cort napped in the afternoon so that he could enjoy his evening tomcat forays into the mazed and filthy brothels of the lower town to the fullest extent Jamie knew in a flash of intuition, knew what was to come, and in his fear and ecstasy he was torn between following Roland and going after the others.†   (source)
  • Lena listened and experienced each phrase of her mother's emotion from religious ecstasy to innocent confidence to embarrassment.†   (source)
  • The dervishes turn in ecstasy, their palms raised toward heaven as if they could hold God briefly on their fingers but only if they do not stop turning.†   (source)
  • Three days passed in religious ecstasy.†   (source)
  • It means that, at the end, they're free to go to glory and beams of light and all that-because, you see, if they had a wife and children, all the ecstasy and beams of light would not be enough.†   (source)
  • His Excellency took a cup, after I had taken one, and alternately sipped at his coffee and whiffed at his tobacco …. and I followed the example with such exactness and solemnity that [one of] the two secretaries …. cried out in ecstasy, "Monsieur, vous etes un Turk!"†   (source)
  • The moment the desk clerk and bellhop left us alone, Mahtob and I squeezed each other, sharing ecstasy.†   (source)
  • When I hung up I felt despair: I was back in the Bronx, my walls bare but for the framed Ecstasy of St. Teresa.†   (source)
  • But ecstasy dissolves all fear.†   (source)
  • Faces in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • As night became morning, it seemed that all the birds of central Italy began to sing and dance in a mounting ecstasy that soon covered the countryside with sound.†   (source)
  • Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it.†   (source)
  • They sigh in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • Then I'd forgotten all that and found happiness, no, ecstasy, in the dance, a hint of what I wanted with Genet.†   (source)
  • The night passed, fitful sleep interrupted by the indescribable ecstasy of new life pulling at my breast and by periods of depression over Moody's infantile behavior.†   (source)
  • Exiled to my private mauve island where pretty pink butterflies fluttered on my wall in a lovely E-enhanced butterfly dance, I tried to be angry, but the ecstasy wouldn't let me.†   (source)
  • Officers' clubs everywhere pulsated with blurred but knowing accounts of lavish, hushed-up drinking and sex orgies there and of secret, intimate nights of ecstasy with the most beautiful, the most tantalizing, the most readily aroused and most easily satisfied Italian courtesans, film actresses, models and countesses.†   (source)
  • I'll die in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • I saw him linger on the framed print of the Ecstasy of St. Teresa—he must have recognized at once where that came from.†   (source)
  • Ecstasy Is Hard to Describe It's like falling softly into a pool of crystal mountain water floating on your back circular beneath vibrant sky deciphering codes in the clouds spinning dizzy fast.†   (source)
  • Together, ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The two nuns subjected each letter, each word, line, and phrase to dilatatio, elevatio, and excessus—contemplation, elevation, and ecstasy.†   (source)
  • If "ecstasy" meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.†   (source)
  • Seated, staring up at that print of the Ecstasy of St. Teresa, seeing only faint outlines as I hadn't put on the light, I felt as if I were in a confessional, but with no desire to confess.†   (source)
  • Surely this was Ghosh announcing his presence, because Ghosh was the sort of man who could be counted on to know that Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa was minutes from our hotel, even if he'd never been to Rome before.†   (source)
  • But secretly she agreed with Dr. Ghosh, the internal medicine physician at Missing, that St. Teresa's famous visions and ecstasies were probably nothing but forms of hysteria.†   (source)
  • And the awful fact of the matter is that although what might in a clinical sense be termed full penetration had been achieved, I was utterly denied the terminal ecstasy I had so often rehearsed manually since age fourteen.†   (source)
  • …mercy; who had not seen her sister become part of the white man's great whorehouse, who had not, all too narrowly, escaped that house herself; no man, preaching, or cursing, strumming his guitar in the lone, blue evening, or blowing in fury and ecstasy his golden horn at night, who had not been made to bend his head and drink white men's muddy water; no man whose manhood had not been, at the root, sickened, whose loins had not been dishonored, whose seed had not been scattered into…†   (source)
  • Sorrow, standing for many hours on end, lack of sleep, the deep-toned singing and the dazzling candles by night and day as well as the cold he had caught, filled Yura's soul with a sweet confusion, a fever of grief and ecstasy.†   (source)
  • In the ecstasy of knowing the end of it ahead of time, Blackstone flew out in the open and sang it like a bird, and beat his pants.†   (source)
  • Kate's would rip the nerves to a sinful ecstasy and leave a man shaken and weak and frightened at himself.†   (source)
  • At the Montenegro the family lived in Room 23: Room 24, ever since the Montenegro had been founded, had been occupied by the cellist Tyshkevich, a bald, sweaty, kindly man in a wig who joined his hands prayerfully and pressed them to his breast when he was trying to be persuasive, and who threw back his head and rolled his eyes in ecstasy when he played at fashionable parties and concert halls.†   (source)
  • I was able to extend the ecstasy a long time with Maria; we were still going at it like minks when my father with a primitive strangled sound aborted a snore, sprang up in his bed, then padded off to the bathroom.†   (source)
  • the circle of following children, their downcast looks of ecstasy, and for the cold imploring hand of the little monkey.†   (source)
  • No, against all dictates of conscience and the Calvinist work ethic, and despite ,the fact that I was far from tired, I lay flat on my back in bed, immobilized like one near prostration, bemused in the realization that the fever which I had run for these recent days had caused my muscles to twitch, and that one could actually be taken ill, perhaps seriously so, with venereal ecstasy.†   (source)
  • There could be no night and day and love and despair and longing and satisfaction to make partitions in the single ecstasy of this alternation.†   (source)
  • And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.†   (source)
  • I did my best to avoid showing pleasure, but what I was feeling was pure ecstasy at this startling demonstration that my words had the power to make people laugh.†   (source)
  • But the record had been on the top of the stack, and I could not help making this instinctive conjecture as I replaced it, assuming that in their final anguish—or ecstasy, or whatever engulfing revelation may have united them just before the darkness—the sound they heard was Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring.†   (source)
  • There was scarcely a woman alive, it seemed, who could resist the urge to haul men down onto beds, car seats, kitchen floors, dining-room tables, park grass, parlor sofas, or packing crates, entwine warm thighs around them, and pant in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • But once inside, she took one step and was into a whole new ecstasy, an ecstasy of cleaning, to wash the river out.†   (source)
  • In the cup of her hand, in her filling skin, in the fingers' bursting weight and stillness, Nina felt it: compassion and a kind of competing that were all one, a single ecstasy, a single longing.†   (source)
  • "ecstasy," even "God."†   (source)
  • He wept, and Old Man McCaleb first felled the excited dog with the blunt end of his axe, and then he turned a fierce face toward him and lifted the blade in the air, in a kind of ecstasy of protecting the silence they were keeping.†   (source)
  • Only, the folks who got there lacked the fine ecstasy of the lemmings.†   (source)
  • For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstasy in the air.†   (source)
  • HOPE—(looks around him in an ecstasy of bleery sentimental content) Bejees, I'm cockeyed!†   (source)
  • It would be an ecstasy of the very naughtiest kind.†   (source)
  • —Whose tongue was fanged like a serpent, flung spear of ecstasy and passion.†   (source)
  • I am only the container of the feeling of ecstasy, of the feeling of rapture.†   (source)
  • "Gold, my lad," he answered with a certain ecstasy.†   (source)
  • The pigs were in ecstasies over Napoleon's cunning.†   (source)
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