athrill
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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 Louis Joseph Vance
The summer—no sweeter was ever; The sunshiny woods all athrill; The grayling aleap in the river, The bighorn asleep on the hill.
From Songs of a Sourdough by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
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 Arabella Kenealy
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 Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The gorgeous pre-Raphaelite pictures had always appealed to her innate artistic sense, and set her nerves athrill with a something she could not analyse.
From For the School Colours by Angela Brazil
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