All 5 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Arrowsmith
- The confusion of the bacteriological laboratory was ecstasy to him-the students in shirt-sleeves, filtering nutrient gelatine, their fingers gummed from the crinkly gelatine leaves; or heating media in an autoclave like a silver howitzer.†
Chpt 4 *
- Mrs. Coughlin and Mrs. Tromp bewailed the cost of laundry soap and butter, and exchanged recipes for pickled peaches, while the men, sitting on the edge of the porch, their knees crossed, eloquently waving their cigars, gave themselves up to the ecstasy of shop-talk: "Say, Doctor, how do you find collections?"†
Chpt 17
- At half-past eight he had pictured his escape as life's highest ecstasy; at twelve he took leave with nervous hesitation.†
Chpt 19
- The Special Board coaxed Ira Hinkley out, for the meanest of reasons—in St. Hubert the whites do not greatly esteem the holy ecstasies of Negroes in the Sanctification Brotherhood chapels—but they voted only to "give the matter their consideration," while still men died by the score each day, and in Manchuria as in St. Hubert they prayed for rest from the ancient clawing pain.†
Chpt 34
- But by night Martin sat alone, tousled, drinking steadily, living on whisky and hate, freeing his soul and dissolving his body by hatred as once hermits dissolved theirs by ecstasy.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness