All 4 Uses of
ecstasy
in
Oliver Twist
- Is that you, Mr. Bumble, sir?' said Mrs. Mann, thrusting her head out of the window in well-affected ecstasies of joy.†
Chpt 2 *
- But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies.†
Chpt 2
- 'Ha! ha!' roared Mr. Claypole, kicking up his legs in an ecstasy.†
Chpt 42
- Some called for ladders, some for sledge-hammers; some ran with torches to and fro as if to seek them, and still came back and roared again; some spent their breath in impotent curses and execrations; some pressed forward with the ecstasy of madmen, and thus impeded the progress of those below; some among the boldest attempted to climb up by the water-spout and crevices in the wall; and all waved to and fro, in the darkness beneath, like a field of corn moved by an angry wind: and…†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness