I was in the city of Joppe praying: and I saw in an ecstasy of mind a vision, a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet let down from heaven by four corners.
And as they were preparing, there came upon him an ecstasy of mind.
We sorted and gloated like hungry tigers that in the ecstasy of possession merely lick their food.
In many ways he produces the wonderful state, and the visions of ecstasy are interpreted as the evidence of spirits.
During the whole time she had been there he had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and concentrates the whole mind upon one point.
She wanted passionately to break the mysterious bands that held them both back from ecstasy and romance.
Her girlish ecstasy was quite gone and in its place lay pallid languor and a look of appeal.
There was a kind of smiling ecstasy on his face before he saw her--as if he, too, were transported by the scene, and this expression came at last to be the chief revelation of his character.
It seemed improbable that the cold and brilliant mind of van Manderpootz could be the agency of the sort of emotional ecstasy I had sensed.
They spoke with prophetic ecstasy of the fresh laurels that Napoleon was to bind upon his brow, and of Alexander's madness to resist a conqueror destined to make new triumphs for the glory of France and the humiliation of Russia.
It did not matter what it was; everything that went that way, were it cloud or carriage, bird or brown water in the stream, he felt his heart flow out after it in an ecstasy of longing.
You will there, I think, recognise the philosopher who has the ecstasy to call you wife.
His face was now wrapped in genial, infantile ecstasyand his intonation was a soft, impassioned melody.
His rich, full voice lingered on the soft Celtic syllables, dwelt tenderly on the diminutive endearments, while his heart, overcharged with sorrow and joy and romance and dreams, spilled over in an ecstasy of song.
Through the air floated that sweetest of all music to the childish ear--the unceasing wail of expiring balloons; and childish souls were held together in one sticky ecstasy of molasses candy and pop-corn balls.
And from that kindling ecstasy I knew God dwelt within my heart.
To every heart in love 'tis given To hear the ecstasy of heaven.
So the ecstasyof earth Shall refresh thee as at birth, And thou shalt arise each morn Radiant with a soul reborn.
They move my heart to pity For all the vanished years, With ecstasyof longing And tenderness of tears.
Leander grimaced and rubbed his hands in an ecstasy of delight at finding a man who had the temerity to bandy words with Mrs. Dax.
To the left were the steers, pawing and tearing up the earth in a very ecstasy of impotent fury.
An ecstasy of exultation took My soul, for there were voices heard and steps, I was among so many,--none of them Knew I was come!
Come, ere she despond, and see In a silentecstasy Chestnuts heave for hours and hours All the glory of their flowers To the melting blue above, That broods over them like love.
A sob of ecstasy choked the youth, and he felt that he could kneel down and worship before them.
A murmur of astonishment broke from them, and they looked at Jasper gazing in ecstasy at the painted window.
Phoebe, with ecstasy that made him laugh, and quite differently from the made-up laughter she had been used to hear from him.
Shrieks of ecstasy greeted her; she was held as fast as though her sisters feared to lose her again, and Miss Fennimore showed absolute warmth of welcome.
Her days of retreat, passed in holy exercises, were an ecstasy of absorption into the divine, and the pious readings began to assume a truer complexion as the experiences of sister-souls, deep crying unto deep.
Vintages that she felt her father would have poised on his tongue in mystic clucking ecstasy stood untasted in a regiment of little glasses at her elbow.
He licked his lips and twisted his eyes upward at her in ludicrous ecstasy till only the whites were visible whenever the Princess laid her hand on his head.
Dinah paused to light another cigarette, and to inhale theecstasy of the first puff or so before she continued.
She was voluble, tearful, half-hysterical with joy and the ecstasy of gratitude.
I needed not to seek further explanation of the pain I had suffered--was suffering then, indeed, as I had reason to know when ecstasy permitted a return of sensation.
Sometimes a very ecstasy of exquisite enjoyment of the entire visible universe filled me.
The vigour and growth, the warmth and light, the beauty and richness of it entered into me; an ecstasy of soul accompanied the delicate excitement of the senses: the soul rose with the body.
But his ecstasy was to culminate on the following morning.
There was a barking of dogs and an ecstasy of shouting.
Four deep they stand and strain to see The tango in its ecstasy of glowing lives that clasp and cling.
Ned identified the fish, Conseil classified them, and as for me, I was in ecstasy over the verve of their movements and the beauty of their forms.
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