She drove like a cowboy, not like an Englishwoman, Over commented, but he felt the exhilaration of it, even when the unwieldy diligence bounded from side to side in the narrow road and the dust enveloped them.
She was possessed by that exhilaration which a woman feels when in the companionship of a new and interesting man with whom she is not in love.
She felt it impossible to sit still; something bubbled up within her like fire; it was a touch of the old exhilaration she had felt on cold mornings in the sea at Lashnagar.
It was adorably, tinglingly cold; she forgot the dream in the exhilaration and gave a little cry of rapture as she waded further out.
All one day of blue and silver in June, a winter's day with keen exhilaration in the air, she stayed with him in the clearing, burning the branches as he hewed them down.
Going to a luncheon party in the Riverside region, I determine, for the sheer pleasure and exhilarationof the thing, to walk the whole way, up Fifth-avenue and diagonally across Central Park.
Scarcely any excitement or exhilaration of later years can compare with the joy of hen's-nest hunting when you were young.
The exhilaration of success was here added to that derived from physical nature.
The exhilaration of flying, the thrill and zest of it, were strong upon them as they glided along, and they made an extended flight.
As they swept on, all agreed that never had they felt such a feeling of exhilaration as came to them as they swooped and swung above the glistening blue water, for all the world like some huge bird.
The doe was in good running condition, the ground was not bad, and she felt the exhilaration of the chase.
I have always found a certain exhilaration in seeing for myself and reproducing photographically the places made memorable by some favorite author.
The hours sped by almost unnoticed, and the exhilaration of the rich wine of which, on an occasion so joyful, she freely partook, added to the hope and bliss which for four weary summers had been strangers to her heart.
I began to glory in the exhilaration of the thing, and my spirits rose at a bound.
But this braggadocio exhilaration soon passed, and in its place came some measure of forethought.
Hard and exhausting it may be, but there is an exhilaration in dashing about the pool, fighting one's way to goal, that no other game gives.
They reached Phillips', and found that historic bar far from empty; and young Holmes, who was full of exhilaration over the prospects of this trip, was insisting that many should drink success thereto.
The mercury may go low but the purity of the atmosphere and its exhilarationatone for the discomfort of cold.
There is a buoyant exhilaration in mounting, especially for the first time; but in addition to the physical difficulties of the descent there is the anticlimax which is moral; so that often the last miles of the descent are sheer agony.
It produces a great exhilaration of spirits, and has some singular effects on the system.
The condition of being festive; social joy orexhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety.
The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl.
And what was so natural in common circumstances became still more so in the exhilaration and rebound of her troubled heart.
If she had not been amused, she was triumphant, and this supplied a still more intoxicating exhilaration than that of mere pleasure.
You'll never be splendidly weary with battle, nor yet know the leanness of spirit which comes from desire unfulfilled, nor will you grow breathless with the exhilaration of a race against your own luck.
But," and she looked back at the elaborate array of pipes with the exhilaration showing in her face, "it's like giving the firs and the sea a new voice.
He caught a faint, clean perfume suggesting violets, the wind lifted the end of her veil across his shoulder, and something of her exhilaration was transmitted to the currents in his veins.
And her exhilaration died; the weariness that made her suddenly older settled over her face.
And the next instant she was up beside him, and her laugh fluted in exhilaration as they whirled away.
In the veins of Hamilton Burton, as he motored up-town, a heady exhilaration mounted like wine.
In her sunny courage and sparkle of repartee he found a tonicexhilaration for his own jaded spirits and an antidote for growing morbidness.
The excitement of the moment was increased by the exhilaration of the gallop.
How long I slept I do not know, but I woke up suddenly with all feelings of exhilaration gone, and only the consciousness of oppressive difficulties heavy on me.
Every half hour with Kerissen was now a duel, every minute was a stroke to be parried, and she flung herself into that duel with the desperate exhilaration of such daring.
Their spirits lifted with the beauty of the morning, and with that strange primitive exhilaration of the desert, that wild joy in vast, lonely reaches, in far horizons and illimitable space.
There was a glorious sense of freedom and exhilaration in the very novelty of the surroundings.
He thought of his young life, and the joy and exhilaration of living which until lately had been his.
The exhilaration that attends its performance appears, sometimes, to flatter the performer into a belief that his style is as agreeable as his sensation.
