athrill

Example Sentences

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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

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

The period I speak of has been athrill with intense activity, for good as well as evil.

From The Outlook: Uncle Sam's Place and Prospects in International Politics by Macmillan, Newton

And all the time I was athrill with pride and joy—suffused therewith into imbecility.

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

At a tap on her door she changed suddenly from the aloof egoist to a woman athrill before the veil of portentous mysteries.

From Joan Thursday by Vance, Louis Joseph