One hearer may be thrown into agitation by an impulse which leaves another comparatively cold, a strong temperament may be vehemently excited by conditions under which a weaker organism is stunned or paralysed.
The displeasure which Boswell had excited was appeased by a compromise.
I know not whether I could name any narrative by which curiosity is better excited or better gratified.
I believe my opinion, if you think well of my judgment, might have given you pleasure; but when it is considered how much vanity is excited by praise, I am not sure that it would have done you good.
So unusual an occurrence excited great curiosity, and enquiries being made, it soon became known that the departed had transgressed the laws of the Church, by giving hospitality to one whom its ministers had cursed.
But my greatest astonishment was excitedat a ball to which I was invited.
So flagrant an offence naturally excited the anger of all the Europeans in Beyrout; and consuls of every nation, accompanied by their retinue, all armed to the teeth, rode forth to the rescue.
At the height of the riot my curiosity was much excited on observing a peasant, who had struck down an officer, and seemed apparently about to follow up his attack, suddenly desist and render the utmost assistance to his late foe.
Judd and his friends were somewhat excitedover Parker.
Yet this was not the worst: the sea-monsters, excited by the raging tempest, rushed at me with their deadly tusks and bore me to the abyss.
Tearing him limb from limb, so swiftly that his cry of agony was unheard, he drank the warm blood and devoured the flesh; then, excited by the hideous food, he reached forth again.
The monk felt that he had excited a wrath which it would be difficult to assuage.
Mynors surpassed himself in the kind of wit that amuses an excited crowd, and the auction soon monopolised the attention of the room; it was always afterwards remembered as the crowning success of the bazaar.
And to her it was manifest that Edgar's attentions, offered with such excited publicity, were not so much to gratify her or to express himself, as to pique Leam Dundas and work off his own unrest.
This news greatly excited David, and awoke in him the hope of again seeing his father, and of seeing him soon.
You love me too much," he said in a low voice, half oppressed, half excited by her words, for men are difficult to content.
My feverish imaginings were no less remarkable than the external stimuli which excited them.
He knew at once that I was in an excited mental condition.
Though Jekyll-Hyde did tell him that I was highly excitedand difficult to control, he did not even hint that I was being subjected to any unusual restraint.
On his arrival he was met by none other than Doctor Jekyll, who told him that I was in a highly excited condition, which, he intimated, would be aggravated by a personal interview.
Their sympathy was as genuine as such men can feel, but a poor kind at best, for it was undoubtedly excited by the thought of what might be the consequences to them of their own neglect.
When he did discover it he was naturally excited and enraged.
Kelly was a most expert representative of the manly art, and the contest excited a good deal of attention.
They had had one or two open quarrels, and shortly before leaving her, Ben excited her anger to such a pitch that she shot at him, with the intention of killing him.
The exhibition was very largely attended, and excited a good deal of interest.
This performance excited considerable admiration from those who witnessed it, and the young athlete was called upon to repeat it frequently.
It was difficult to make their voices heard above the crack of musketry and the shouts of the excited crowd; however, their words were passed from man to man, and so back among the people behind.
In Paris the first step of people excited by a change of government would have been to fall upon those whom they considered to be the agents of their oppressors.
The women heard what he said with composure; the terrors of the past three days had excited the nerves of the whole population to such a point of tension, that the news of this fresh danger was received almost with apathy.
I knew that my own letters had excited a general feeling of horror at the accounts of the dungeons in which political prisoners were confined, and I determined to make the best of matters.
The two officers were almost as much excited as Garibaldi himself, for this gift would remove one of the obstacles that lay in their way.
When he reached the gate he found a heavy column of volunteers drawn up there, while behind them was a dense crowd of excited citizens.
He is slightly bald, with burning black eyes, an enthusiastic and excited manner, and talks with almost painful earnestness.
It was in a Canal Street cafe, where Wald was talking in an excited tone to several other intellectuals.
They were always excited about life, for life as it is constituted seemed to them very unjust.
He would become as excited as Donovan did when the geologist pointed to a group of minute shells in a slice of core and whispered, "Those are Foraminifera, boys!
I'm so excited I won't be able to sleep," the girl answered in a rich contralto voice.
It took Ivan an entire week to come to the simple and obvious decision of a middle course, so harassed and over-excited had his brain become.
And Joseph sat suddenly up, excited by this remembrance of by-gone misery, forgetting the sudden exhaustion so recently relieved.
We will come from his play excited if we are foolish, or can condescend to the folly of others, but knowing nothing new about ourselves, and seeing life with no new eyes and hearing it with no new ears.
Amidst the regrets excited by so early a loss of you, it will be a consolation, if your new situation shall contribute to advance your own happiness.
So abominable an act has excited here extreme abhorrence and execration, and all you have already done has elevated the character of our country and of our navy.
I was playful; that I was not sincere about it; and that he only grew angry and somewhat excited when he found that I insisted upon it as a matter of earnestness.
It is worth while to observe that we have generally had comparative peace upon the slavery question, and that there has been no cause for alarm until it was excited by the effort to spread it into new territory.
Four of their number were absent, but that excited no surprise after the events of the night; and even Bess Thompson supposed her father had gone off to the public-house with the others.
It was quite a new experience to have any one coming to tea; and all her hospitable and housekeeping feelings were greatly excited by the approaching event.
Then the arrival of a Piute with news that excited Withers and greatly perturbed Lake convinced Shefford that something was wrong.
Either Shefford was over-excited and mistaken or the hour had become fraught with greater suspense.
The motive at the bottom of this alliance was what Thucydides tells was the real cause of the Peloponnesian war,--the jealousy which the growth of Athens excited in other states.
The successor of Alva, Requesens, was really more dangerous than Alva, because he was more magnanimous, and therefore excitedless antagonism.
If these atrocious events excited joy in the mind of Philip II.
There were extortions and other abuses that excited disaffection.
While these constitutional changes were taking place, the mass of the populace were becoming more and more excited by vehement orators, who discoursed of human rights, and by inflammatory journals.
If the sanguinary fights in the arena excited little or no condemnation, the prevalence of various other sorts of immorality, at variance with the practice of better days, could not fail to call out different forms of censure.
The concessions of the Jesuit fathers to the Chinese in matters of ritual excited much opposition in the Church.
In Berlin, at the same time, there were excited meetings, and conflicts in the streets between the people and the soldiers.
The horrible oppression of the people excited insurrections.
The anti-revolutionary feeling excited by the news of the death of Louis moved England to an armed interference which involved the most important consequences to all Europe.
I was myself excited somewhat even as if they had been men.
Officers of the law, lawyers, judges and politicians of more than ordinary ability and reputation, quarreled, disputed and excited such unreasoning passion as to result in bloodshed.
These hunters, upon their return home, gave glowing accounts of the richness and fertility of the new country, and excited powerfully the curiosity and imagination of the frontier backwoodsmen east of the Alleghenies and of North Carolina.
There was a significance in his companion's tone whichexcited his alarm.
The terrified woman uttered a scream of dismay that excited the fierce outlaw still more.
To ask any of the villagers would only have excited surprise and suspicion.
His curiosity had been excited by his father's change of front towards the objectionable stranger, and he counted on finding out the reason for it.
The little boy accepted this assurance, for he did not feel the interest that excited Ernest.
She had all the delight in watching and weighing the effects of the passion which she excited that moved the great queens of Asia and the empresses of Rome.
They were all too much excitedto think of going to bed again; and, besides, it was within an hour of daybreak.
One effect of the threatened attack on the town about which we write was, that the people became desperately excited and tremendously vigorous in their preparations.
