This is the kind of chorus that sends a thrill of ecstacy through the heart, and around the resplendent dome of thought of the much-maligned modern bald-head.
He tramples on ladies' dresses, comes into collision with their knees, and sends a thrill of pain to the utmost ends of the roots of every man's corn he treads on.
But when the moment of success arrives--what a thrill of joy the triumph sends to the heart of the actress, if actress it be!
Can soft Compassion thrill with pleasing smart, Repentance melt, or Gratitude disarm?
Sincere the unalter'd bliss her charms impart, Sedate the enlivening ardours they inspire: She bids no transient rapture thrill the heart, She wakes no feverish gust of fierce desire.
There was a thrill o' horror through the crowd, for they kenned his character, and they kenned also his fondness for Katie--and no one expected to see him in life again.
There, beside her in a lawn-coloured frock with narrow black edges, he had watched the game, and felt the old thrill stir within him.
Kern had not confided the secret of the protector without a turning of her heart, but now at least the thrill in her rose above that.
And surely in that other summons there was, besides, the thrill of romance, such as the young love.
Her voice sent a responding joyous thrill through the woman's cold heart in spite of herself.
Quite right, my lad," said the clergyman, so kindly that it sent a strange thrill through me.
He turned once more, and though we could not understand his words, the thrill of his eloquence moved us.
I gave it willingly enough, with a thrill as she took it between her own.
Denny could not understand the new thrill there was in his cracked voice, nor the light in those pale eyes.
He sucked in his lips from sheer delight in the thrill of it all, and nodded his head in profound solemnity.
There was no reply from the guns, but the knights raised loud the war cry of the Order, a war cry that was never heard without striking a thrill of apprehension among their Moslem foes.
Then she heard her own name called out in a voice which, with a strange thrill of fear, she recognized as Lord Vivianne's.
For the first time a thrill of uneasiness, of doubt, of fear, shot through him.
Her heart warmed to it, and beat faster with a thrill of pride.
A cold thrill passed over her, as though a shower of ice had fallen over her--a cold, terrible chill, a shudder that she could not repress.
Even to Orleans the report spread, and the inhabitants of that besieged city, now despairing of deliverance, felt a thrill of hope on hearing the report.
The strange boy's look flashed with such frank gladness, doubled and trebled by sharing sympathetically, in so far as he could, each bounding thrill that animated the wild, free life about him!
He flung out his hands with an eloquent gesture of blind despair upon the last word, which shot a warning thrill to the boys' hearts.
Theodora could not recover from the thrill of pain so as to speak, and Mrs. Finch rattled on.
Little did she need the recommendation, though it sent a thrill of gladness through her that it should have been made at such a time.
There came to this emotional little Jewess a thrill that was not born of religious fervor at all, I am afraid.
They want thethrill they get when they receive a box from Chicago, and open it, and take off the wrappings, and dig out the thing they ordered from a picture, not knowing whether it will be right or wrong.
The thrill we get for our pains is when, at twenty-five, he jumps over the traces and marries the young lady we met in her cradle on page two.
I think it was that old drama-thrill in her, dormant for so long.
There's enough fiction, and romance, and adventure in my job to give me all the thrill I want.
The steady drum of rain on our tent shot a thrill of disappointment through me as I opened my eyes, but before we had crawled out of our sleeping-bags and dressed it lessened to a gentle patter and soon ceased altogether.
The breathless excitement of the stalk and the wild thrill of exultation at the clean kill of two splendid rams were still rioting in my veins.
Confusing: Through the alumni gathered there went a thrill of dismay.
Better: Through the alumni gathered there, went a thrill of dismay.
A sibilant clamor of excited voices filled the air,--hoarse shouts of men, yells from the hoodlums and shrill chatter from the women and children, roused by the thrill of them.
This sudden captivity gave me so pleasant a thrill that for a moment I forgot Moon Ying and my responsibilities, and betrayed such inclination to loiter that I was sharply ordered to "walk faster.
When I reached the entrance the circling crowd was halted in a mass of struggling men, and the hoarse roar that issued from it vibrated with the indefinable yet definite thrill of savage anger.
Why do I thrillto the heart's core at the imagined prospect of hearing more--more such words?
Of that he was necessarily ignorant, but he had carried away with him the thrill of emotion called up in him by Elena's glance when they suddenly met in the street and he bent his head in greeting before her.
The thrill of passion triumphed over the fear of God.
And from thenceforth the ivories, the enamels, the ornaments passed from the hands of the lady to those of her lover, to whom they communicated an ineffable thrill of delight.
In the drawing-room of the Countess Starnina, an indefinablethrill ran through her when she felt Andrea's gaze upon her bare shoulders and arms.
They looked each other full in the eye, and each experienced a curious internal thrill at the sight of the bare flesh against which he pointed his sharp blade.
Andrea followed her intently with his eyes; her every movement, every attitude sent a delicious thrill through him, as if each one of them had some special significance, were a form of individual expression.
Prather, with a thrill in his voice; and again the palms of his hands were making that refrain of delight.
Jack; and Jim Galway caught a thrillin Jack's voice that he had heard in the arroyo.
The thrill of the news singing in Jack's veins was too overwhelming for him to notice the challenge and apprehension in the Doge's glance.
As they approached, a thrill of lightness and uncertainty was setting her limbs a-quiver.
He had the thrill of an explorer who is about to enter on a voyage of discovery.
Again did her accent on the "our" move and thrill him.
Boys will alternately thrill and chuckle when reading these splendid narratives.
And Lena made a triumphant exit to the laughter of the girls and a thrill of song from the canary on the mantel-piece, who dearly loved a noise.
Murder became suicide--suicide became accident, before the clang of the ambulance-gong sent the depressing shivers through nerves that would thrill with pleasurable excitement at the sound of the fire-gong.
The attention, the sympathy of Englishmen had been drawn across distant seas to a race utterly strange to them; and the peasant of Cornwall or Cumberland had learned how to thrill at the suffering of a peasant of Bengal.
This precaution on his part gave me a thrillof satisfaction.
On the other hand, when, after the arrival of my cousin, I received his first letter and found it filled with enthusiastic descriptions of her, and of how anxious she was to make him happy, I felt a little thrill of jealousy.
A thrill passed over the three comrades, and they looked warily forth in the direction in which the guard had pointed.
The horses pricked up their ears nervously and hastened their lagging pace, and I myself felt a thrill go up my spine.
