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  • One might have expected such an intrepid child to be ecstatic, but the speed and altitude frightened him.†   (source)
  • Ron whispered ecstatically as Crabbe gleefully pointed out the cakes to Goyle and grabbed them.†   (source)
  • In one ecstatic memory he had ridden a gleaming brown horse across a field that smelled of damp grass, and had dismounted beside a small stream from which both he and the horse drank cold, clear water.†   (source)
  • Edgar dropped his mother's wrist and ran toward the door, so grim and ecstatic and oblivious he fell over a bale of straw and went down, legs kicking.†   (source)
  • The attendees grew ecstatic, but they couldn't express the feeling, so the crowd seemed like a pent-up volcano.†   (source)
  • On the way home, Lindsay and I were ecstatic.†   (source)
  • I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.†   (source)
  • WHEN WE GOT THE LETTER in the post, my mother was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Walter was rightfully ecstatic, but I was confused by my suddenly simmering anger.†   (source)
  • I felt confused, weak, and ecstatic all at once.†   (source)
  • When he gets home, he is ecstatic with the cold, the crystalline air, the high pressure that hums over the whole defenseless breast of the continent, and ecstatic, too, with a hope that turns failure into success, plans for a trip, a new life, city time.†   (source)
  • God knows how long Mary Beth Baird would have buried her head in the hay, for no doubt she was ecstatic to have the top of her head in contact with the Christ Child's hip.†   (source)
  • He turned to Masterji, an ecstatic man.†   (source)
  • The reunion had been ecstatic and tearful and nonstop happy, and inside he was pure July.†   (source)
  • Jutta painted the vessel in ecstatic purples and greens, and she set it on the water with great formality.†   (source)
  • Instead of an ecstatic frenzy, there was stillness.†   (source)
  • We are ecstatic to find you safely returned to us!†   (source)
  • Their faces were happy, ecstatic almost.†   (source)
  • I was ecstatic in heaven.†   (source)
  • I was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • They were both ecstatic.†   (source)
  • But he was ecstatic, because the prospect of those endless years of hard labor did not seem like a burden to him.†   (source)
  • She's ecstatic we're together."†   (source)
  • They seemed to share one wide, ecstatic grin.†   (source)
  • On their ecstatic cries THE CURTAIN FALLS†   (source)
  • When she heard about his plans for the conference and the official naming of Henrietta Lacks Day, she was ecstatic: finally, a scientist was honoring her mother.†   (source)
  • Hurrahs burst from the ecstatic crowd.†   (source)
  • We learned a lot from them in the First Invasion, but they also learned from us. how to set up the Ecstatic Shield, for instance.†   (source)
  • It was by leaps and fathoms the best meal I'd eaten in months, or maybe ever; and Boris—who'd eaten two orders of the sable all by himself—was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • he blurted ecstatically.†   (source)
  • He immediately starts blushing and I'm ecstatic he's along for the ride.†   (source)
  • All this time she's been worried about me, afraid that there was something missing from my essential makeup, that I was too young when Carlisle changed me… She's ecstatic.†   (source)
  • She did so, and he was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • But Rano and I were ecstatic whenever Pancho sauntered through the door.†   (source)
  • She uttered two clearly audible words, familiar and elusive at the same time, words that seemed to have a ritual meaning, part of a verbal spell or ecstatic chant.†   (source)
  • He was a different person: the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush--this man went out on the street in the midst of ecstatic signed letters, gallant gifts, imprudent vigils at the pigeonkeeper's house, even on two occasions when her husband was not on a trip or at the market.†   (source)
  • Both of them became ecstatic.†   (source)
  • I should have been ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Most of all, he was ecstatic at the thought of teaching again.†   (source)
  • An ecstatic glow seemed to emanate from Elva.†   (source)
  • Yes, Moody was ecstatic to see his family.†   (source)
  • Shruh Zhuu was so ecstatic that, when he heard the news, the young boy immediately gathered his things and was ready to go.†   (source)
  • The Fox Brothers Circus has just collapsed, and Uncle Al is ecstatic because they employed the world-famous Charles Mansfield-Livingston, a handsome, dapper man with a parasitic twin growing out of his chest.†   (source)
  • For Hearth, this was the equivalent of ecstatic fanboy screaming.†   (source)
  • Ecstatic!†   (source)
  • The boys were ecstatic too.†   (source)
  • I was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • My family was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • All of us in Pasha were ecstatic.†   (source)
  • She'll be alive and well and cross and I'll be ecstatic to be punished by her.†   (source)
  • Kelley was ecstatic when she read the letter.†   (source)
  • The hunter was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • But Hash was ecstatic to be free of the Taliban's rigid restrictions and had shaved off the beard he'd been obliged to grow.†   (source)
  • One slow, easy inhale sparks little explosions inside my brain, firing directly into the pleasure center, igniting ecstatic bursts from eyebrows to toenails.†   (source)
  • So ecstatic!†   (source)
  • She smiled at me ecstatically.†   (source)
  • At that moment, overcome with the tender brutality of physical existence--with "the insoluble contradiction of being animals cursed with self-reflection, and moral beings cursed with animal instincts"--Jacob launches into a lament, a single, ecstatic paragraph, unbroken over five pages, that Time magazine called one of the most "incandescent, haunting passages" in contemporary literature.†   (source)
  • All ecstatic with love, the heavens are filled with laughter.†   (source)
  • Jas was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Becky was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • In those three months they had come to love each other with the ecstatic passion that would torment them for the rest of their lives.†   (source)
  • 'You're a chaplain,' he exclaimed ecstatically.†   (source)
  • I had done all this and I was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Aren't you ecstatic?†   (source)
  • Inside, I felt kind of ecstatic and overjoyed.†   (source)
  • I felt ecstatic, as if I was at the epicenter of our family, missing only Genet and Rosina who surely would come back, and then our family would be whole.†   (source)
  • She said the name like an ecstatic child.†   (source)
  • I heard the umpire scream "Out!" and Sidney Goldberg ran over to help me to my feet, a look of disbelief and ecstatic joy on his face.†   (source)
  • His eyes widened as the boys ran off the bus and removed their cleats, ecstatic to feel the dirt and rocks beneath their feet.†   (source)
  • …yet unachieved, riding upon the wings of my voice out to you, old matron, who knew the voice sounds of the Founder and knew the accents and echo of his promise; your gray old head cocked with the 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,…†   (source)
  • Good heavens, my girl, most people would be ecstatic to have discovered all this!†   (source)
  • The nurse, like an ecstatic suppliant, arched her neck in front of the mirror remembering the mystical words of her omniscient lord.†   (source)
  • Besides, her retaking of the helm had not led to any internal strife; Eriksson had reverted happily to the position of managing editor, indeed was almost ecstatic—as she put it—that life would now return to normal.†   (source)
  • If Abigail felt still, as on shipboard, that motion was the preferred state, she must have been ecstatic.†   (source)
  • The absurd, the inspiring, the uncanny, the awesome, the terrifying, the ecstatic--none of these had a place, for you, before.†   (source)
  • They trembled ecstatically at the touch and invited more.†   (source)
  • I was so ecstatic at scoring my first touchdown that everybody watching must have seen it, like the guy who hits his first home run in baseball and fist-pumps and laughs all the way around the bases.†   (source)
  • The pikemen were ecstatic, flinging their weapons into the air and rushing to help Bob up.†   (source)
  • Lem Billings was ecstatic when he saw Garbo.†   (source)
  • When the man you love, really love, wants to build a life with you, you should be ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Next morning at breakfast she was downright ecstatic.†   (source)
  • But anyway, I'm sure Mom will be ecstatic to know that I'm actually hanging with an actual cheerleader.†   (source)
  • The music swelled into a delirium as an ecstatic percussionist overplayed the little instruments that imitated the sounds of trilling songbirds.†   (source)
  • "She stands!" the watcher on the crow's nest cried out ecstatically when the newsbearer's signal flashed in.†   (source)
  • While I was ecstatic to see my best friend, what I felt most at that moment was how much I adored Derek for what he did.†   (source)
  • Then when he was within ten feet of Kooa, who was awaiting his arrival in a state of ecstatic anticipation, Albert's manner suddenly changed.†   (source)
  • Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines.†   (source)
  • Wild breezes whooshed around the McGraw-Hill parapets, and one of my favorite pastimes had been to drop a sheet of paper from the window and to watch its ecstatic tumbling flight as it sped across the rooftops, often disappearing far off into the canyons around Times Square, still tumbling and soaring.†   (source)
  • Charley moved about smiling and sniffing ecstatically like an American woman in a French perfume shop.†   (source)
  • I had been noticing whenever Lincoln was surprised or ecstatic he would use the phrase Oh Gawd.†   (source)
  • In ecstatic delight, he had spoken, but Vasudeva smiled at him brightly and nodded in confirmation; silently he nodded, brushed his hand over Siddhartha's shoulder, turned back to his work.†   (source)
  • Lulu came waddling out, ecstatic inside her rolls of fat at seeing Lena.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes and waited, waited in the darkness while my being filled with a wild, ecstatic fluttering, waited for him to come to me.†   (source)
  • Then the moment of ecstatic freedom came.†   (source)
  • Two greyhounds in plaid blankets, like dangerously ecstatic old ladies hoping no one would see them, rushed into, out of, then past the corridor door which the incoming Welshman had failed to shut behind him.†   (source)
  • MORE (Ecstatic, wraps her to him) Oh, good morning— Good morning.†   (source)
  • At 2:30 P.M., Dr. Jordan, flushed and ecstatic, confessed that he loathed the idea of being rich on Callisto.†   (source)
  • She had brought him ecstatic happiness and intolerable agony of spirit.   (source)
    ecstatic = intense happiness
  • Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.   (source)
    ecstatic = intensely happy and excited
  • When he realized what I was talking about, that there were twinkle-bells of sunshine in the room, he smiled like a weather man, like an ecstatic patron of recurrent light, and repeated the news to Daisy.   (source)
    ecstatic = happily excited
  •   [Nick to Gatsby]  "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
      I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end. First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.   (source)
    ecstatic = intensely happy
  • On a normal day, I would be ecstatic with this turn of events.†   (source)
  • "Well done, Harry!" said Hagrid, ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Peeta will be ecstatic no matter what I do.†   (source)
  • I was ecstatic and leaped around during the entire three-minute conversation.†   (source)
  • They were ecstatic to learn the three of us were in a displaced persons camp.†   (source)
  • I took it inside to show Jenny, who was ecstatic to have it back, despite its dubious passage.†   (source)
  • When I explained this to Deborah, she was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • After South Florida's legion crowds and lines, I should have been ecstatic about the solitude.†   (source)
  • "You're the one—the one who holds the magic," they whisper, breaking into ecstatic smiles.†   (source)
  • The ecstatic cheering only made me feel worse.†   (source)
  • He turned his misty eyes toward us, and the smile brightened—became ecstatic.†   (source)
  • 'Ecstatic,' said the case officer, scowling as he braked the car.†   (source)
  • "Makeup, hairstyle, everything!" the guy promised ecstatically.†   (source)
  • The sensation was both agonizing and ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Ecstatic with relief, Eragon stood in his stirrups and shouted, "Take heart, King Hrothgar is here!†   (source)
  • "I'd be ecstatic if I were you," Vikki said, sounding a little bitter.†   (source)
  • An ecstatic smile spreads across her lips.†   (source)
  • …. ecstatic to do it, if it will please them both, my father and my new husband.†   (source)
  • The whole academy was ecstatic about the coming performance.†   (source)
  • Ecstatic spectators streamed down from their seats and into the arena to celebrate.†   (source)
  • I was ecstatic and frightened at the same time.†   (source)
  • In a course called Ecstatic Religion, I sat next to a boy named Marc.†   (source)
  • I'm ecstatic that I found a way to make it.†   (source)
  • 'You do understand!' he exclaimed, wringing his hands together ecstatically.†   (source)
  • The fourth pup appeared and flung himself into the melee with an ecstatic squeal of pleasure.†   (source)
  • Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops.†   (source)
  • Such a privilege!" he shouted ecstatically.†   (source)
  • How strange it was to be ecstatic over the opportunity to remove vermin from my food!†   (source)
  • We were ecstatic to see Joe and John, and Mom and Dad.†   (source)
  • He climbed ecstatic mountains and floundered in the rocky darkness between the peaks.†   (source)
  • Dobby was ecstatic about his present.†   (source)
  • Lara and I went back to her room, where she did exactly what Alaska told her to do, and I did exactly what Alaska said I would do, which was die a hundred little ecstatic deaths, my fists clenched, my body shaking.†   (source)
  • 'Never mind unwrapping it now, people are arriving for dinner, I want you all downstairs,' she said, but the moment she was out of sight Ron ripped off the paper in a frenzy and examined every inch of his new broom, an ecstatic expression on his face.†   (source)
  • I wondered again what Cass would think of me: would she be disappointed, like Boo, or ecstatic, like my mother.†   (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)
  • And they saw the nightclub—often used during the day for something called ecstatic dancing, a great workout, Annie said—and they saw the large outdoor amphitheater, and the small indoor theater—"there are about ten comedy improv groups here"—and after they saw all that, there was lunch in the larger, first-floor cafeteria where, in the corner, on a small stage, there was a man, playing a guitar, who looked like an aging singer-songwriter Mae's parents listened to.†   (source)
  • Alyss shouted, ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Or, rather, I was seeing it but in a wholly different way: not the ecstatic prodigy; not the mystic, the solitary, heroically quitting the concert stage at the height of his fame to retreat into the snows of Canada —but the hypochondriac, the recluse, the isolate.†   (source)
  • Mr. Carter's family was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • The jolt of anger unbalanced my tenuous hold on self-control; his unexpected, ecstatic response overthrew it entirely.†   (source)
  • You can't see through the shield to aim and focus the beams, but since the generator of the Ecstatic Shield is always in the exact center, it isn't hard to figure it out.†   (source)
  • The cops were ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Maria was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • It was the only time we got to see him lose his cool, get so emotional and ecstatic, and we loved it.†   (source)
  • Scientists were ecstatic about hybrids, but throughout the United States and Britain, the public panicked as the media published one sensational headline after the next: MAN-ANIMAL CELLS ARE BRED IN LAB … THE NEXT STEP COULD BE TREE MEN … SCIENTISTS CREATE MONSTERS The Times of London called the HeLa-mouse cells the "strangest hybrid form of life ever seen in the lab—or out of it."†   (source)
  • The stench had risen to the sky and Thomas couldn't remember ever being so ecstatic about such a horrible smell.†   (source)
  • But the rest of the crowd was ecstatic; Max had never seen Dr. Rasmussen or his colleagues so animated.†   (source)
  • When news of the deal broke to an ecstatic public on October 5, horsemen were amazed that Howard had accepted the walk-up.†   (source)
  • When the theater manager shares the exciting news about the Lincolns, Clifford is ecstatic, but Booth pretends not to hear, instead staring straight down at his mail, acting as if he is studying the return addresses.†   (source)
  • My mother was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Gazzy guided Iggy's hand down, and Iggy scratched a small brown pig behind its ears, sending it into ecstatic squeals.†   (source)
  • Of course Scarlett was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • He was only ecstatic.†   (source)
  • She didn't know what it meant, that he was here, and wasn't sure whether to feel ecstatic or heartbroken or both.†   (source)
  • Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel were ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Within minutes an ecstatic cabdriver accepted a hundred francs to remain in place at the end of the three-vehicle line, his passenger slumped in the rear seat waiting to hear the words.†   (source)
  • He watched the attorney Giuliani's silver hair glinting in the electric lights, and for one brief and ecstatic moment his eyes settled somewhere between the man and the boy, and he felt himself trapped in their embrace.†   (source)
  • One group of ecstatic revelers was more than a little stunned when Max snarled at them to move even as they clustered around to thank him.†   (source)
  • Eloy wiped a tear from his eye as he surveyed the ecstatic crowd who cheered for the 1957 Little League World Champions.†   (source)
  • Now Toni and Rosemarie would say, "Do the pajama dance, Piper!" and I would dance around in my PJs, as ecstatic as Snoopy doing the Suppertime Dance.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy is ecstatic.†   (source)
  • If I were in a hammock on a beach, sipping a drink with a little umbrella in it, and I knew the flock was safe and okay and everything was fine, I would be ecstatic.†   (source)
  • …of late afternoon as the retreating sun made the east a shadowless perfection of evenly throbbing light; in the slightly dusty haze that came with the approach of evening, dry and cool; in the wheat as the wind traveled through it as slowly as a boat in the thick of polar seas; and in all the memories summoned by these beauties to resonate and sing, until, in their ecstatic multiplication, they closed themselves off to mortal view by virtue of the light that is too bright to see.†   (source)
  • So when Pop presented me with a specially procured pair, I did an ecstatic dance around her cube, hopping madly until I beaned myself on the metal bunk bed frame.†   (source)
  • Ben asked us some questions and I tried to use the words from my dictionary to show him how ecstatic I was, but Ben was just happy to share our excitement with nods and smiles and when we couldn't understand his words we just smiled more and said yes.†   (source)
  • Although I loathed DeSimon, I was glad to be kept semibusy five days a week, and ecstatic at the freedom of movement I had driving the electric shop van around the prison grounds.†   (source)
  • 'A fair fight,' Yossarian decreed, and all the others who had come running to the uproar in horror began cheering ecstatically in a tremendous overflow of relief.†   (source)
  • When Alessandro broke into the clear, he was breathing as if he had been in a race, and his breathing went perfectly well with the little explosions he felt in his heart, the not entirely unpleasant soft and hollow pounding, and the astonishing moments, followed by an ecstatic weightless feeling, when the heart seemed actually to have stopped.†   (source)
  • If the Austrians could impale themselves ecstatically upon Strauss, the French were equally capable of a delirium spurred by Norma, even if in both cases the singers and musicians were Italian.†   (source)
  • No one is supposed to touch you in prison, so the intimacy of a languorous foot rub, intended to please, almost sent me into ecstatic tears the first time.†   (source)
  • Her face broke into an ecstatic smile.†   (source)
  • The audience was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • He felt himself falling, falling ecstatically in love with her as she kissed him again and again with lips that were steaming and wet and soft and hard, mumbling deep sounds to him adoringly in an incoherent oblivion of rapture, one caressing hand on his back slipping deftly down inside his trouser belt while the other groped secretly and treacherously about on the floor for the bread knife and found it.†   (source)
  • We were ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Trish was ecstatic to hear from me.†   (source)
  • She was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • I witnessed the sisters' reunion from my turf—they hugged ecstatically and headed to a corner to confer.†   (source)
  • She was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • His periodic visits with his parents were causes for great celebration, and when we received an invitation to a dinner in his honor, Moody was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • My niang was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • Essey and I, dragging Maryam and Mahtob, attempted to elbow our way through the crowd of ecstatic penitents, trying to maneuver close enough to touch the ha ram so that we could ask God to grant our wishes, but we were repulsed several times.†   (source)
  • He was ecstatic, bounding around the house all day long, showering rare smiles upon Mahtob and me, cracking jokes, exhibiting the sparks of kindness and love that had once-so long ago-attracted me to him.†   (source)
  • At odd twistings of the maze he encountered his wife--naked, at one point, with an ecstatic smile which repelled him--but in general he encountered only strangers with muffled chins and with hats drawn low, who spoke to each other with voices as muffled and unrecognizable as their faces.†   (source)
  • Indeed, if after hearing the ecstatic shrieks of climactic conversion against the thumping beat of the melodeon you had stood under the window of a whorehouse and listened to the low decorous voices, you would have been likely to confuse the identities of the two ministries.†   (source)
  • I'm happy to leave him," she proclaimed, wiping a tiny smear of moisture from her lip, "I'm really ecstatic, if you wish to know the truth.†   (source)
  • That night was so cold that I put on my insulated underwear for pajamas, and when Charley had done his duties and had his biscuits and consumed his usual gallon of water and finally curled up in his place under the bed, I dug out an extra blanket and covered him—all except the tip of his nose—and he sighed and wriggled and gave a great groan of pure ecstatic comfort.†   (source)
  • I was ecstatic.†   (source)
  • her skin like divine hands, touching her with ecstatic ice; chill after chill coursed through her flesh; for long seconds the fog and night of her existence, through which she had stumbled like a sleepwalker, evaporated as if melted by the burning sun.†   (source)
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