athrill

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I hardly knew what I hoped or expected, but I was all athrill with a nameless, inexplicable happiness.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

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

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

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John

The girl’s nerves were athrill with the delightful air of mystery suggested by the surroundings.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram

All athrill with excitement, Mrs. Gammit hurried through her morning’s chores, and allowed herself no 240 breakfast except half a dozen violent cups of tea “with sweetenin’.”

From The Backwoodsmen by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir