athrill

Example Sentences

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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 Vance, Louis Joseph

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 Brazil, Angela

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

Mervyn realised that his nerves were somewhat athrill as he placed his first step on the path stairway.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram

John Hunter rode at her side, watching the soft curls on her round girlish neck, athrob and athrill with her presence, and trying to formulate the thing he had brought her out to say.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.