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full of happiness and excitement
- But you were not able to accept that—and so you didn't feel the great elation that should have been yours.2.11 — Part 2 Chapter 11 (10% in)
- Instead of a mood of deferential sorrow, befitting a place where one contemplates eternity and realizes the insignificance of man, this building has a quality of loose, orgiastic elation.2.12 — Part 2 Chapter 12 (6% in)
- She was elated on the day when Jackie, the least promising one of the lot, achieved a completed work of imagination.2.15 — Part 2 Chapter 15 (79% in)
- He felt no elation; he felt tired; but he was back in his normal course.3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (92% in)
- In his office in the Banner Building, he worked with a new energy, a kind of elated, ferocious drive that surprised the men who had known him in his most ambitious years.3.8 — Part 3 Chapter 8 (16% in)
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