The man swore savagely, but the cold thread of insulated wire over his throat thrilled his every nerve.
Minola went on, singing to herself as she went, her song growing louder and bolder until at last it thrilled finely up to the stone roofs of the grim halls and corridors.
She talked sententiously of pure dominants and recessives, got her figures badly mixed, and uttered some really astonishing things that would have thrilled a scientific audience.
She thrilled to the swift motion of the car, and to the knowledge that the imperturbable audacity of his driving was a man’s tribute to her presence.
Lynette’s warm lips thrilled the woman in Eve through and through.
The tangles of her wind-blown hair touched his cheek--and thrilled him.
Nay, she opened them again, and shut them again, the better to adjust that gentle clasp; and every touch thrilled through him, so that he walked as one in a dream.
The turmoil of her discovery filled her too completely to admit a full-grown affection; but she thrilled with the sense of the vast difference between her supposed father and this her real father.
Lucien felt thrilled through and through by that touch, for in the humility of the courtesan's love there is a magnificence which might set an example to angels.
Esther Vanhomrigh thrilled at the insolent audacity of the man.
As an ambitious airman he was thrilledby the vastness of the scheme.
Those sounds always thrilled the hearts of the two boys; it seemed to challenge them to renewed efforts to accomplish great things in their chosen profession.
They were all of them thrilled by the consciousness that possibly a grim tragedy of the sea was being enacted directly beneath, without any likelihood of their being able to render succor to those who might soon be in distress.
It seemed to me that, long ere this, Wardour Wentworth must have ascertained my fate, and the thought that he might be passive when my very soul was at stake, thrilled me with agony unspeakable.
She was one of the many girls who had beenthrilled by Miss Nightingale's volunteering for the Crimea.
Amaryllis and Denzil will always remember Stépan's wonderful tact and goodness to them that evening; he kept everything calm and thrilled them all with his stories and his conversation and his own wonderfully magnetic personality.
Thus the advent of Verisschenzko, who thrilled her always, and a possible new admirer in Denzil, seemed a heaven-sent occurrence.
Amaryllis caught the tenderly pronounced 'darling' and, physically ill as she felt, her spirit thrilled with some agreeable surprise.
One of this group sauntering there it thrilled through and through.
Listening, her heart had thrilled to a strange, wild venture of a hope, only to drop it, a dead weight, as she thought of her relatives.
Wagram's blood thrilledas already he foresaw a tragedy.
A man was coming towards him; and now every fibre of his being thrilled with joy, with an indescribable sense of relief.
In that crowd of adventurers and witlings he was a somebody, and when the following day he called on Jeanne at her grandmother's boarding-house he thrilled her with a proposal of marriage.
He thrilled with pleasure and turned to resume his conversation with Miss Northcliffe; and when he left the Villa close on midnight his brain was in a whirl.
The young man felt that she spoke the truth; the very tones of her voice thrilled him with a tender conviction.
She forgot the people around her--forgot everything but the glorious genius which thrilled her whole being with ecstasies of harmony.
The strings trembled and thrilled a moment, then out came a wild gush of melody that made the very dancers pause and hold their breath to listen.
They walked on together in silence, both thrilled with a strange sensation of pleasure, and drawn, as it were, by invisible influences toward each other.
Mary's heart thrilled to hear these words, for she knew that it was her hand that had created the paradise in which the sufferer fancied herself to be wandering.
I have said my prayers," replied the child, lifting her eyes with a look that thrilled through and through Mrs. Chester.
So she sat, stooping downward, and looking through the gleams of light that came through the open hall over flights of steps below, thrilled from head to foot with loving expectation.
Their fingers were woven together, and trembled with the electric shock of two souls thrilled with a worship of the beautiful, and the solemn poetry of the past.
Some strange magnetic influence was in the glance, for it thrilled him from head to foot.
But Isabel was firm; the very love that thrilled her with every sound of his footstep or tone of his voice, brought with it bitter self-upbraiding.
He has been thrilled, as he had never been thrilled before with a realization of the dire need of the submerged and unorganized millions, and of the claims that they have upon him.
In the excitement wrought by this strange accident our hurts were forgotten; and we eagerly clambered upon the altar to investigate the matter further, while hope and wonder thrilled our hearts.
But as he spoke of the migration this matter was called to my mind suddenly; and then in an instant the conviction thrilled through me that the clew which would lead us to the hidden city was in my possession.
And especially was I thrilled by the thought of the magnificent form in which my own magnificent discoveries could be given to the world.
Such a shudder ran over her that he thrilled in sympathy.
Perhaps the sudden understanding in his gaze thrilled her.
The voice of Valentine thrilled with triumph as he spoke the word.
The doctor thrilled to the suggestion, still bound by magic, surely.
Doctor Levillier knew not why, but he was thrilled to the very soul by them, as by a revelation throwing strong light upon the depths of things.
And the voice of Cuckoo thrilled him as the voice of revelation.
He nodded without answering, and, as we turned to go in, I heard quite plainly and distinctly a low, strange laugh, a laugh full of a honeyed sweetness that yet thrilled me with great fear.
The presence of that camp and the frequent sight of the soldiers thrilled the scouts as nothing else could have done.
And as the dancing flames lit up that circles of boyish faces, some flushed and drowsy, others bright-eyed and alert, each one meeting his own glance now and then with a friendly smile, Farren thrilled oddly.
The sightthrilled Cavvy and absorbed him for a moment.
Twice he found it; once circling off to the left of where Cavanaugh was swimming, whereat he was thrilled with hope that the creature had abandoned the pursuit.
Hinckley started guiltily and hurriedly shifted his gloating eyes from the five-line verse which, even in crude mimeograph, thrilled him with the pride of authorship.
As he met Steve’s glance, his lips curved in a curious smile that somehow thrilled the boy.
Russell as War Correspondent of the Times, thrilled with excitement at the prospect of inoculating the Leading Journal with "the divine madness of our new style--the style we have formed upon Sala.
And so, by our love For you, floating above, And the scars of all wars and the sorrow thereof, Who gave you the name of Old Glory, and why Are we thrilled at the name of Old Glory?
Accursed be the day when the genius of invention thrilled your sublime brain!
Only now he was with me on the terrace; his lips touched me here on my hair, and thrilled me from head to foot.
Rapid explosions, loud and startling noises, filled the air, and the forest thrilled and shook with the raging flames.
It thrilled on every ear and drew instant attention.
The word and the tone in which it was uttered, thrilled him, like an electric shock.
The fellow wore felt-soled slippers, stepped with a rising chest, and glanced quickly from left to right, while his hurried gasping breathing thrilled the flame of his lamp.
He thrilled all over with curiosity, and his birdlike head protruded further and further from behind the door.
