athrill

Example Sentences

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Quietly, intimately, he smiled at the sound, good old world, athrill with the wonder and beauty of life.

From The Destroying Angel by Vance, Louis Joseph

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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The girl’s nerves were athrill with the delightful air of mystery suggested by the surroundings.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

In her highest Supra-reaches, she is athrill with Supra-faculties.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella

All athrill with excitement, Mrs. Gammit hurried through her morning’s chores, and allowed herself no 240 breakfast except half a dozen violent cups of tea “with sweetenin’.”

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir