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ecstasy as in:  ecstasy of love

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  • They say people who die from ecstasy die from overheating.  (source)
    ecstasy = the street name of an illegal drug known to produce feelings of euphoria, but associated with damage of the central nervous system
  • (She flings her arms wide in an ecstasy of realization) Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anyone to realize you!  (source)
    ecstasy = state of intense happiness
  • Love's arms beckon With their naked delights, And Eden's promise of ecstasies.†  (source)
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  • "Harry Potter risks his own life for his friends!" moaned Dobby in a kind of miserable ecstasy.†  (source)
  • You mean, when you add your columns, you have ecstasies?†  (source)
  • The crowd was again ecstasied, and gave another lurch in which Coggan and Poorgrass were again thrust by those behind upon the women in front.†  (source)
  • Every time I see a female nude, such as the Venus in my art history book, I go into 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)
  • It happened so fast, she didn't have time to die of ecstasy or embarrassment.†  (source)
  • If I put in the chilblains and the shivering at night under the thin 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 of my wits with terror; and he blames himself that he wasn't there to rescue me.†  (source)
  • I moaned and he moaned and my mind and soul and body stood on the edge of pure ecstasy.†  (source)
  • The pigs were in ecstasies over Napoleon's cunning.†  (source)
  • I could feel again that ecstasy of being pressed to her, her little heart going and going.†  (source)
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  • There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.  (source)
    ecstasy = a state of intense absorption that transcends normal consciousness
  • And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.  (source)
  • This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.  (source)
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  • Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.  (source)
    ecstasy = a state of intense emotion, agitation, or even madness
  • Alas, poor country, Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot Be called our mother, but our grave, where nothing, But who knows nothing, is once seen to smile; Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks, that rent the air, Are made, not marked; where violent sorrow seems A modern ecstasy.  (source)
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