All 3 Uses of
exuberant
in
The House of Mirth
- Now for the Trenors, you remember, he chose the Corinthian: exuberant, but based on the best precedent.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- The quality of the air, the exuberance of the flowers, the blue intensity of sea and sky, produced the effect of a closing TABLEAU, when all the lights are turned on at once.†
Chpt 2.1
- She found him, on the first Sunday after her return to town, pacing her narrow sitting-room to the imminent peril of the few knick-knacks with which she had tried to disguise its plush exuberances; but the sight of her seemed to quiet him, and he said meekly that he hadn't come to bother her—that he asked only to be allowed to sit for half an hour and talk of anything she liked.†
Chpt 2.6
Definition:
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(exuberant) joyously unrestrained