athrill

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The haunting phrase leaped to my brain and I stood staring at the departing carriage athrill with excitement.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

Fifteen, and athrill with a strange new pulse; flushed, as the dawn, with the promise of day.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

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 Gillilan, James David

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)

“A chance, indeed,” he answered, all athrill at the discovery.

From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Mitford, Bertram