ecstasyin a sentence
ecstasy as in: ecstasy of love
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Ender could see the slug-like males clinging to the walls of a dark tunnel, and the large adults carrying the infant queen to the mating room; each male in turn penetrated the larval queen, shuddered in ecstasy, and died, dropping to the tunnel floor and shriveling. (source)ecstasy = intense happiness
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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
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(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
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she stopped in ecstasy to shut her eyes that she might the better fancy herself one of that heroic ring. (source)ecstasy = a state of intense happiness
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Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy. (source)ecstasy = intense happiness
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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)
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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)
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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)
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On the other hand, he was also enjoying the ecstasy of an idea, not daring just yet to envision its complications, dangers, and vicious absurdities.† (source)
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But Nicolas unfurled his irresistible seducer's smile, kissed her on the hand without jumping back at the sight of her filthy chipped vermilion fingernails, went into ecstasies over her rings, and passed himself off as a first cousin of Amanda's until the woman, defeated and twisting her mouth into flirtatious smiles and elephantine contortions, led him up the dusty stairs to the third floor and pointed to Amanda's door.† (source)
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The gray-bearded wizard was hunched over an elaborate DJ mixing board, one headphone pressed to his ear, biting his lower lip in auditory ecstasy as his fingers scratched ancient vinyl on a set of silver turntables.† (source)
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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)
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Overjoyed, the proud hunter took a photograph of himself kneeling over his trophy, rifle thrust triumphantly overhead, his features distorted in a rictus of ecstasy and amazement, like some unemployed janitor who'd gone to Reno and won a million-dollar jackpot.† (source)
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But secretly she agreed with Dr. Ghosh, the internal medicine physician at Missing, that St. Teresa's famous visions and ecstasies were probably nothing but forms of hysteria.† (source)
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When gripped in the ecstasy of an assault, he wailed and howled, drooling and frothing, sometimes sobbing, tears running down his cheeks.† (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
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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)
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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
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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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