All 13 Uses of
elated
in
A Soldier of the Great War
- Making good time on the road was in itself reason for elation.†
Chpt 1
- Once, in a lecture, he had stated this in passing, only to be abruptly challenged by a student who had wanted to know if the respected professor thought that elation could come to a condemned man on his way to the gallows.†
Chpt 1
- "the man may know the greatest elation and the most savage despair-as if, in anticipation of eternity in heaven or in hell, he were previewing both."
Chpt 1 *elation = happiness and excitement
- Elation in a man condemned to die?†
Chpt 1
- Elation, mad elation, visions, euphoria.†
Chpt 1
- Elation, mad elation, visions, euphoria.†
Chpt 1
- Besides, he was already elated with the chasing.†
Chpt 2
- He thought that now his life was going to end, and he felt a sense of tremendous elation and purity.†
Chpt 8
- For each and every stroke, and for each of the lovely thunderclaps in the delirious music above, Alessandro heard ever-so-faintly another music that underlay it all, beyond which was no other, and that was perfectly appropriate both to the elated dancing in the ballroom and his torment in the cellar, because it tied them together and made them equally inconsequential.†
Chpt 8
- They moved as if they were prancing ahead of a prairie fire, because at ten they were both drunk on brandy and champagne, and elated after half a dozen cups of coffee and chocolate.†
Chpt 8
- Italian music was bound at all times by the limitations of the human heart, never more exuberant or elated than a heart could be without breaking, or sadder than a heart could be without taking hope.†
Chpt 8
- The risk and exertion elated him.†
Chpt 8
- In my foolishness, whenever I glanced at him I felt elation, because I had imagined that I had cleared his future of war.†
Chpt 10
Definition:
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(elated) full of happiness and excitement