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feel or express extreme happiness or elation
- For to Rosamond this visit was a source of unprecedented but gracefully concealed exultation.Book 6 — The Widow and Wife (44% in)
- —or shrink from the news that the rarity—some bit of chiselling or engraving perhaps—which we have dwelt on even with exultation in the trouble it has cost us to snatch glimpses of it, is really not an uncommon thing, and may be obtained as an every-day possession?Book 5 — The Dead Hand (38% in)
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