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  • Tom talked incessantly, exulting and laughing, but his voice was as remote from Jordan and me as the foreign clamor on the sidewalk or the tumult of the elevated overhead.   (source)
    exulting = feeling or expressing extreme happiness or elation
  • "She treats me like a visitor," thought I. "I little expected such a reception; I anticipated only coldness and stiffness: this is not like what I have heard of the treatment of governesses; but I must not exult too soon."   (source)
    exult = feel extreme happiness
  • I exulted at having a dorado at the end of my line—I would be less keen if it were a tiger.†   (source)
  • There was a muffled exultation from the other side.†   (source)
  • Mr. Curtain's face, though pale and drawn, quite gleamed with exultation.†   (source)
  • In a third, he punched the air in exultation as the final curtain fell, although there was no curtain, there was no possibility of a curtain.†   (source)
  • And so they spent hours there, watching the birds come and go, feeding them from their palms, exulting in the familiarity that allowed the birds to land on their arms and shoulders.†   (source)
  • They split the money four ways and exulted in the ease and glory of it all.†   (source)
  • By the same magic, Mrs. Barbour's invitation seemed to extend beyond the summer and far into the horizon, as if the entire Atlantic Ocean lay between me and Grandpa Decker; the lift was dizzying, and all I could do was exult in my reprieve.†   (source)
  • It was wild and exulting, like a hawk's shrill cry.†   (source)
  • The idea caused moments of exultation.†   (source)
  • Some kind of a life of piety, at any rate (which should guarantee that Adah's nowhere within a hundred miles); and I should like to spend as much time as I can outdoors, exulting in God's creation, and wear pants if at all possible.†   (source)
  • Then the exultation was simply buried in shame, and he felt the way he had after he had broken Danny's arm.†   (source)
  • The look on his face was a mixture of exultation and self-loathing.†   (source)
  • Jacob crowed with undisguised exultation when I called to give him the news, and he seemed eager enough to embrace Edward's safety measures.†   (source)
  • Just before the film ended, he realized in a flash of exultation that he had never been so close, so long, to the one he loved so much.†   (source)
  • The wonder of it brought tears to his eyes and a smile of wild exultation that dispelled all his doubts and fears in a surge of pure emotion.†   (source)
  • And there was no mistaking the victorious exultation in the Harkonnen gibberish that poured from the other bands.†   (source)
  • He was exulting to the sky.†   (source)
  • The ghosts cheered and threw spectral confetti as Bacchus strode around the stadium with his arms raised triumphantly, exulting in the worship.†   (source)
  • A full minute elapsed, and Dewey exulted in Smith's silence, for an innocent man would ask who was this witness, and who were these Clutters, and why did they think he'd murdered them-would, at any rate, say something.†   (source)
  • The important thing was to outthink the enemy, find his weakness, let him have his moment of exultation.†   (source)
  • He exults, slapping tree branches with his up-stretched hand as he walks.†   (source)
  • Thus the banquet was the exultation, the harmony, the acceptance of physical frailty, joy in the termination of misery.†   (source)
  • "Now!" exulted the voice.†   (source)
  • She closed her eyes, exulting in the sudden flow of thoughts.†   (source)
  • When Dresden was destroyed later on, incidentally, Lazzaro did not exult.†   (source)
  • In his journal, Farmer exulted.†   (source)
  • Father only smiled and said, "Surely such exultation comes from God?"†   (source)
  • Bologna should have exulted Dunbar, because the minutes dawdled and the hours dragged like centuries.†   (source)
  • Music, archery, fencing, poetry ...the demons dominated them all, and their growing exultation was unbearable.†   (source)
  • I am walking, he thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • Jenks exulted.†   (source)
  • Amidst all their exultations, Americans and Frenchmen should remember that the perfectibility of man is only human and terrestrial perfectibility.†   (source)
  • The record labels, don't merely celebrate nonstandard English, they exult in misuse and misspelling, as if it's cool to show that you have learned nothing at school.†   (source)
  • Always there were two feelings in the dream—a wild exultation that now I was free of her and terrible guilt.†   (source)
  • They exulted in it.†   (source)
  • "It will only take a moment!" she says, exulting.†   (source)
  • For the Seabiscuit crew and for America, it was the beginning of five uproarious years of anguish and exultation.†   (source)
  • The heart is a wheel that exultation can spin so fast that it can break apart.†   (source)
  • He had laughed in triumph, in deliverance, in a spurting, living exultation-and the words which he had not pronounced, but felt, were: God bless you, Ellis, whatever you're doing!†   (source)
  • Most of the time, though, I exult, and think I have had a narrow escape.†   (source)
  • There was an exultation, a huge delight: I was alive.†   (source)
  • We must give the last word to an Alabama lieutenant who exulted in the name of Rebel.†   (source)
  • I threw myself at it, pinioning the arms savagely; thrust at it and beat it to the ground; fell on it with fury; felt the weak struggles of the body beneath mine like the feeble fluttering of a trapped bird, and exulted.†   (source)
  • After issuing this statement, he pumped in a perfect twenty-five-foot jump shot that robbed the crowd of its exultancy and confidence.†   (source)
  • HARRIET TUBMAN'S moment of exultation passed quickly.†   (source)
  • He bled the doe clean, then butchered out one loin and took it back to his camp, exulting.†   (source)
  • The air sounded with mighty cries of joy and the noise of their passage as they swept about Hellwell, changing shape constantly and exulting in their freedom.†   (source)
  • Just as she reached the landing she heard Brahms' Alto Rhapsody on the phonograph, Marian Anderson's flowering dark exultancy, triumph wrested from eons of despair.†   (source)
  • But as I raised and bent that bow and felt the power of it, I felt a surge of exultance—this tool was right for me!†   (source)
  • In panic-and, it struck him, in exultation-seek a stranger.†   (source)
  • He did not know why, but there arose in him an exultation and a sense of power, and he ran up the hill like an engine, or a madman, willing to throw himself headlong into the city that glowed before him.†   (source)
  • It was cold, and she felt only relief and exultation.†   (source)
  • And with a laugh, actually a laugh of exultation, Helmholtz Watson pushed his way through the crowd.   (source)
    exultation = extreme happiness or elation
  • For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.   (source)
    exulting = feeling extreme happiness or elation
  • He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.   (source)
    exultation = extreme happiness or elation
  • And then, as he met my awed gaze, he broke into a breathtaking smile of exultation.†   (source)
  • I exulted when I heard my feet touch the grass first.†   (source)
  • He regretted it, and he exulted in his mistake.†   (source)
  • With a final joyous exultation, the camerlegno turned and dashed back into St. Peter's Basilica.†   (source)
  • Her face was alive with exultation, all the despair wiped clean from her perfect features.†   (source)
  • Despite the weather, Roran soared and exulted with his joy at Katrina's acceptance.†   (source)
  • Margaery Tyrell is done, she thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • I am the wood, and everything that's in it, he thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • Exultation swept through both Mel and me.†   (source)
  • She came back a few minutes later, laughing in uncontrollable exultation.†   (source)
  • Robb will kill you all, she thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • But Adams was incapable of exulting as others were over the plight of the French monarch.†   (source)
  • My oh my, you're really growing up, look at you," exults Mr. Taylor.†   (source)
  • He's going to lose, she told herself, exulting, as Lord Beric's flaming sword whirled and slashed.†   (source)
  • Some small part of her knew that she was dreaming, but another part exulted.†   (source)
  • I beat on my chest a couple of times and exulted in the crisp, cool air of late morning.†   (source)
  • This certainty did not fill her with exultation, but with fear.†   (source)
  • We wandered about the island exulting in the aloneness.†   (source)
  • I exulted.†   (source)
  • At two a.m., just as Saint-Exupery was telling the story of his plane crash in the desert, we came into Salina, Kansas ("Crossroads of America") — twenty minute rest stop, under a moth-beaten sodium lamp, where Popper and I ran around a deserted gas station parking lot in the dark, my head still full of the book while also exulting in the strangeness of being in my mother's state for the first time in my life—had she, on her rounds with her father, ever driven through this town, cars rushing past on the Ninth Street Interstate Exit, lighted grain silos like starships looming in the emptiness for miles away?†   (source)
  • Still in the grip of his temper and his shame at mocking George's stutter, his first thought had been a sick sort of exultation: For the first time in his life George Hatfield had wanted something he could not have.†   (source)
  • The retrenchers' report had been too harsh, too much a rebuke, at a time when the mood throughout Chicago was one of sustained exultation at the fact that the fair had gotten built at all and that it had proven more beautiful than anyone had imagined.†   (source)
  • He drew the last word out, savoring it with a delicious exultation as he moved forward into the room.†   (source)
  • Rameck, especially, was reminded of his days when he exulted in the audience applause back in high school.†   (source)
  • my less noble side exulted.†   (source)
  • Mortati longed to feel his heart swept up in the miraculous exultation he saw in the faces around him.†   (source)
  • The word had never meant a thing before, though Briony had heard it exulted at a thousand school and church occasions.†   (source)
  • The thought of Jace in the same house she lived in, always nearby, filled her with a mixture of exultation and horror.†   (source)
  • Exulting, she shook it back and forth in her mouth, scattering the warm red droplets amidst the cold black rain.†   (source)
  • Jumping to his feet, Max stood at the bedside and exulted in the thrill of discovery as the dark grains snaked into discernible letters.†   (source)
  • But exultation returned.†   (source)
  • This time he took the wight's head off at the neck, and for half a moment he exulted ...until a pair of dead hands came groping blindly for his throat.†   (source)
  • We shout in exultation of our victory over the river, and as there is no one to tell us to temper our outburst, the cheer echoes for a full minute.†   (source)
  • Yossarian declared, jumping all about also and roaring in laughing exultation at the walls, the ceiling, the chaplain and Major Danby.†   (source)
  • I shout in exultation.†   (source)
  • It's so sweet," Long exults.†   (source)
  • Now Adams wrote to Jefferson, "The love of God and His creation, delight, joy, triumph, exultation in my own existence ....are my religion."†   (source)
  • She found herself, in terror, twisting her body to resist, and, in exultation, twisting her arms around him, holding him, letting her lips bring blood to his, knowing that she had never wanted him as she did in this moment.†   (source)
  • Felicity exults.†   (source)
  • Ann exults.†   (source)
  • "The Nile," all of them shouted, poking each other with their fingers and exulting in the breadth of their education.†   (source)
  • I was the troublemaker they always feared and they exulted when I was permanently exiled, yet they were often kind to me and did me many favors that were unsolicited and spontaneous.†   (source)
  • The first American play to be produced on stage, it opened with the lines: Exult each patriot heart!†   (source)
  • Though every robber may deserve death, yet to exult over the wretched is what our country is not accustomed to.†   (source)
  • She was here with the news and was in such a state of radiant exultation as I have never seen.†   (source)
  • The unrepeatable exultation was in knowing that they both understood this.†   (source)
  • Agravaine, exulting in his cold mind, thought: "Hoist with his own petard!"†   (source)
  • I believe that the Z type of submarine is causing great exultation in naval circles.†   (source)
  • They could not stop it, she thought, exulting.†   (source)
  • He exulted in his youth, and he believed that he could never die.†   (source)
  • 'But soon, too soon,' said Bernard, 'this egotistic exultation fails.†   (source)
  • Leo's clashing skates heightened the exultation of his voice.†   (source)
  • And then as he exulted he was smitten with fear.†   (source)
  • He was a lord of darkness; he exulted in the lonely sufficiency of his work.†   (source)
  • He understood; he exulted in its evil—which was the evil of earth, of illicit nature.†   (source)
  • He was impelled toward murder as much through the thirst for excitement, exultation, and elation as he was through fear!†   (source)
  • — God knows, I did not care; it was the sort of word that schoolgirls had for hockey, wildly inappropriate to those past weeks of misery and exultation.†   (source)
  • There were two beds; he exulted in his unaccustomed occupancy of an entire mattress, dreaming of the day of manlike privacy.†   (source)
  • For, the moment I'd pictured myself in freedom, standing behind a double rank of policemen—on the right side of the line, so to speak—the mere thought of being an onlooker who comes to see the show, and can go home and vomit afterward, flooded my mind with a wild, absurd exultation.†   (source)
  • The river dashed through the grounds; and there I saw Jack catch a salmon; for the first time after those desperate months he looked triumphant; and worn as he [had] come to look, I was struck by his sudden exultation as the line tautened and he held the fish there in the river.†   (source)
  • At one moment, when the cries of exultation in the distance were swelling to a roar, Tarrou stopped abruptly.†   (source)
  • The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exultation.†   (source)
  • He does not look up, yet through him there seems to go a wave of exultation, of triumph, before he can curb and hide it, when it is too late to try.†   (source)
  • Esther exulted.†   (source)
  • He turned away with secret exultation.†   (source)
  • The news reached Atlanta almost simultaneously with the news of the victory at Chancellorsville, and the town fairly rocked with exultation and with laughter.†   (source)
  • "Let us all go!" she cried, moving on, as if all those riders and horses had filled her with childlike exultation and made her forget her pity.†   (source)
  • The face of an exulting devil.†   (source)
  • He did not know that it was there, but when he found in which direction it ran, it seemed like an omen to him in his exultation.†   (source)
  • Golz, he thought in a mixture of horror and exultation as a man might feel hearing that a business enemy had been killed in a particularly nasty motor accident or that some one you hated but whose probity you had never doubted had been guilty of defalcation.†   (source)
  • So he felt anger that he should find exultation only in the wilderness, that this great sense of hope had to be lost when he would return to men and men's work.†   (source)
  • The feeling of resentment and the balked longing for some kind of fulfilment and exultation"in degrees more or less intense and in actions more or less conscious"stalk day by day through this land.†   (source)
  • In himself there was this new exultation which he was ashamed to make articulate even to his own heart, "This woman of mine likes me well enough!"†   (source)
  • Perhaps it is in a manner fortunate that the defendant has committed one of the darkest crimes in our memory" for if we can encompass the life of this man and find out what has happened to him, if we can understand how subtly and yet strongly his life and fate are linked to ours"if we can do this, perhaps we shall find the key to our future, that rare vantage point upon which every man and woman in this nation can stand and view how inextricably our hopes and fears of today create the exultation and doom of tomorrow.†   (source)
  • She had been looking at the table-cloth, and it had flashed upon her that she would move the tree to the middle, and need never marry anybody, and she had felt an enormous exultation.†   (source)
  • The youth upon its back rode lightly, balanced lightly, leaning well forward, exulting perhaps at that moment as Faustus had, of having put behind now at once and for all the Shalt Not, of being free at last of honor and law.†   (source)
  • Ta!" he exulted.†   (source)
  • Their titter, their gossip, offends me; breaks into my stillness, and nudges me, in moments of purest exultation, to remember our degradation.†   (source)
  • His—" But as though answering his suppressed scream of exultation, noises in the hallway, wrangling, angry, confused, battered like turbulent waves against the door.†   (source)
  • And when, after a long time, the room went dark, and there was the slow, silent, creeping movement of the woman beside him, an exultation filled him fit to break his body.†   (source)
  • He was repeating something, and she knew it was poetry from the rhythm and the ring of exultation, and melancholy in his voice: Come out and climb the garden path, Luriana Lurilee.†   (source)
  • It was that, looking at him, a man would know that at some time in his life he would reach some crisis in his own foolishness when he would change his name, and that he would think of Brown to change it to with a kind of gleeful exultation, as though the name had never been invented.†   (source)
  • He read every paper he could lay his hands on, exulting in the defeats that were forcing the Germans back at every point.†   (source)
  • constant cigarettes, and the waitress, the woman not much larger than a child going back and forth to the kitchen with her arms overladen with dishes, having to pass on each journey within touching distance of the men who leaned with their slanted hats and spoke to her through the cigarette smoke, murmured to her somewhere near mirth or exultation, and her face musing, demure, downcast, as if she had not heard.†   (source)
  • He exulted in the great length of his limbs and his body, through which the mighty liquor could better work its wizardry.†   (source)
  • Here, while the western sky reddened, he raced down toward the goal, passing the ball to a companion, exulting in his growing swiftness, agility, and expertness in shooting the basket.†   (source)
  • Joy awoke in him, and exultation.†   (source)
  • He exulted in his popularity among the students, his heart pounded with pride under all the pins and emblems, but he resented being considered an eccentric, and he envied those of his fellows who were elected to office for their solid golden mediocrity.†   (source)
  • Exulting in the howl of the beaten wind about the house, the thunder of great trees, he committed himself to the dark storm, releasing the mad devil's hunger all men have in them, which lusts for darkness, the wind, and incalculable speed.†   (source)
  • He developed blinding speed, bending all the young suppleness of his long thin body behind the ball, exulting as it smoked into the pocket of the mitt with a loud smack, or streaked up with a sharp dropping curve.†   (source)
  • Sheeted in his thin nightgown, he stood in darkness by the orchard window of the back room at Gant's, drinking the sweet air down, exulting in his isolation in darkness, hearing the strange wail of the whistle going west.†   (source)
  • Secure and conscious now in the guarded and sufficient strength of home, he lay with well-lined belly before the roasting vitality of the fire, poring insatiably over great volumes in the bookcase, exulting in the musty odor of the leaves, and in the pungent smell of their hot hides.†   (source)
  • The child came up the gummed trunk like a cat: Eugene rocked from the slender spiral topmost bough, exulting in his lightness, the tree's resilient strength, and the great morning-clarion fragrant backyard world.†   (source)
  • Behind a wooden partition was his ware-room, layered with stonedust—coarse wooden trestles on which he carved inscriptions, stacked tool-shelves filled with chisels, drills, mallets, a pedalled emery wheel which Eugene worked furiously for hours, exulting in its mounting roar, piled sandstone bases, a small heatblasted cast-iron stove, loose piled coal and wood.†   (source)
  • He was thrilling and exulting in ways new to him and greater to him than any he had known before.†   (source)
  • I could have leaped out of the water with that momentary exultation.†   (source)
  • He ran on it thought, almost exulting, the while he laughed and chatted, and Drouet felt nothing.†   (source)
  • But Shefford thrilled with both fear and exultation.†   (source)
  • In the cool air outside, as he walked to his house, he exulted in his refusal to be helped.†   (source)
  • Jane Withersteen had one moment of exultation before the dawn of a strange uneasiness.†   (source)
  • "I knew it!" said Mrs. Lynde, with the exultation of a correct guesser.†   (source)
  • Yet, in each man, excepting Gulden, there was that striking aspect of exultation.†   (source)
  • She looked up, and saw Nettie's eyes resting on her with tenderness and exultation.†   (source)
  • "Tha' die!" he said with dry exultation.†   (source)
  • 'The strange exultation that so often seems to accompany hard fighting came upon me.†   (source)
  • As they strode off, McKisco, in exultation, gripped his arm.†   (source)
  • I felt more than a touch of exultation too, at having distanced my pursuers.†   (source)
  • Pilchuck leaped up with a hoarse command, which his men answered in wild exulting whoops.†   (source)
  • But instead of achieving calmness she grew more and more towards a strange state of exultation.†   (source)
  • I've dreamed of her all these years and now I've found her!" he exulted.†   (source)
  • He could get up no exultation that was really worthy the name.†   (source)
  • He exulted thus at the idea that he had "paid out the stuck-up beggar after all."†   (source)
  • "Good night, dear love—my love forever," he exulted.†   (source)
  • When she leaped she uttered a strange, low, sweet cry of wildness and exultation.†   (source)
  • His features were still composed, but his eyes shone with amused exultation.†   (source)
  • Carol hastened out of the shop exulting, "She didn't make fun of me.... Did she?"†   (source)
  • I could have TOLD Judy," he repeated, exulting in the implied superiority over his wife.†   (source)
  • Two days had passed since he had seen her, and his exultation had not left him for a moment.†   (source)
  • Jennie, we're going to get away!" he cried, exultation for her in his voice.†   (source)
  • And she exults so in taking you from me—she's not like ordinary girls.†   (source)
  • Boss, what'll you bet against that?" cried Cleve, with exulting laugh.†   (source)
  • There was a knock at the door, and they all gave a shout of exultation.†   (source)
  • Tom's days were days of splendor and exultation to him, but his nights were seasons of horror.†   (source)
  • It was just an exclamation, horrible to hear, but it did not express satisfaction or exultation.†   (source)
  • "None escape," said the Wolf-bear, laughing into my face with the exultation of hunting.†   (source)
  • They sat on the back stoop, exulting in freedom from Tozers.†   (source)
  • It was harsh, piercing, unnatural, yet it had a note of wild exultation.†   (source)
  • In the wild exultation of triumph they still held him as chief.†   (source)
  • That's pretty well, sir, at my age!' said the chatty old woman, her eye brightening with exultation.†   (source)
  • "Of Saxon descent, he at least," said Cedric, with exultation.†   (source)
  • My uncle looked, he compared, and the house shook with his triumphant leap of exultation.†   (source)
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