athrill

Example Sentences

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Left alone, my nerves were all athrill with excitement, and I believe my hand shook.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram

One was deep in the computation of astronomical data; the other athrill with a quivering, nerve-shaking joy that was almost breath-taking.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Bates, Harry

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 Kenealy, Arabella

Why could he not have slept on forever, he thought, his whole being athrill with the memory revived by his dreams?

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

At noon Friday he had halted at the Rawhide to rest his horse and take a bite of luncheon, but all his young soul was athrill with eagerness; every faculty was alert.

From Trumpeter Fred A Story of the Plains by King, Charles