exhilarant

Example Sentences

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The knowledge seemed to have no very exhilarant effect, and in his case bore some resemblance to being born tired.

From The Man Who Knew Too Much by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The lecturer took it as a matter of course, and replied, "Oh, yes, you will find the whole atmosphere of Boston exhilarant with intellectual vitality."

From Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z by Various

Certainly ill-fortune must have befallen some one to make the good man so exhilarant.

From Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio

And surely that is the best deliverance in all affliction, to be made so spiritually exhilarant that we can rise above it.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

A keen smell of the far ocean came to their nostrils and the air was clear and exhilarant.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James