athrill
Example Sentences
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The gorgeous pre-Raphaelite pictures had always appealed to her innate artistic sense, and set her nerves athrill with a something she could not analyse.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
Something new, wonderfully, terrifyingly, deliciously new, gripped at her heart and set her whole body athrill and trembling.
From Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman
One was deep in the computation of astronomical data; the other athrill with a quivering, nerve-shaking joy that was almost breath-taking.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Harry Bates
While Wheaton swayed between fear and hope, the community was athrill with excitement.
From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson
The Bannocks and Shoshones of Fort Hall 83 were nerved to a high tension and quickly athrill to any new movement.
From Trail Tales by James David Gillilan
