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

You were all athrill with the geography and love of it.

From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

Huddled close to the two owners of the room on the floor were six other girls, all big-eyed, expectant, athrill with interest and excitement.

From Concerning Belinda by Brainerd, Eleanor Hoyt

Mervyn realised that his nerves were somewhat athrill as he placed his first step on the path stairway.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

Neither faces nor bodies are vitalised and athrill with powers rooted in healthful organs; vivified by healthful functions, and instinct with warm, iron-rich, magnetic blood.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella