athrill
Example Sentences
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And the attention of us all is athrill with mighty interest.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
The girl had said nothing at all but, having seen her, Constance was athrill; the girl had not been a bearer of bad news, that was sure; she brought some sort of good news!
From The Indian Drum by Edwin Balmer
Quietly, intimately, he smiled at the sound, good old world, athrill with the wonder and beauty of life.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
I hardly knew what I hoped or expected, but I was all athrill with a nameless, inexplicable happiness.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
The haunting phrase leaped to my brain and I stood staring at the departing carriage athrill with excitement.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
