exultation

A slight pang of remorse was succeeded by a little glow of exultation.

He felt a lightness of heart, an exultation of spirit, he had not known for years.

The wind and the hour were propitious, and no sensation of alarm disturbed the exultation of that happy moment.

Rowland noted it with exultation, but even without it he would have broken into an eager protest.

The joy, the exultation of that moment, outbalanced a life of common happiness.

Faith bruised and trust misplaced blotted out for her the joy of living and the exultation of youth.

Butler Cornbury himself was dismayed, and could hardly participate in the exultation of his more enthusiastic wife.

Half an hour later von Schalckenberg crept out on tiptoe, his kindly face beaming and his eyes sparkling with exultation.

Thus the Catholics had ground for hope, but not for exultation.

It was Steve's voice, low and cautious, and with just the faintest trace of exultation in the note.