athrill

Example Sentences

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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

But in reality the speaker suddenly found himself all athrill.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

Something new, wonderfully, terrifyingly, deliciously new, gripped at her heart and set her whole body athrill and trembling.

From Running Sands by Kauffman, Reginald Wright

Fifteen, and athrill with a strange new pulse; flushed, as the dawn, with the promise of day.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

In her highest Supra-reaches, she is athrill with Supra-faculties.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella