All 4 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Main Street
- She was jarred out of her ecstasy as the bob-sled bumped up the steep road to the bluff where stood the cottages.†
Chpt 17 *
- Full of an ecstasy which horrified her, she followed Kennicott and the girl who had stolen her place, followed them to the train, through the evening, the night.†
Chpt 21
- Stroking his chin, drawling in the ecstasy of being erudite, Kennicott inquired, "Say, doctor, what success have you had with thyroid for treatment of pains in the legs before child-birth?"†
Chpt 24
- When he was too expressive, too much like a Russian dancer, in saluting Deacon Pierson, Carol had the ecstasy of pain in seeing the deacon's sneer.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness