burning with excitement
Example Sentences
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“Everyone in Japan was burning with excitement about the Games,” said Kazuo Inoue, 69, who vividly recalls being glued to the new color television in his family’s home in Tokyo in 1964.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her cheeks were burning with excitement; she gave her aunt and cousin quick good-bye kisses, and caught the baby's soft little cheek to her own velvety one.
From The Beloved Woman by Kathleen Thompson Norris
The emperor's hand with the papers it held slowly sank into his lap, and his eyes, suddenly opened widely, and burning with excitement, were fixed on Hansen's face.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
On Verrazzano's return to Dieppe, he sent the King a written account of his travels, and France was presently burning with excitement over the abundant riches of the New World.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
