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)

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

From Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio

For months it had haunted him in his idle moments, inspiring him with vague and exhilarant emotions.

From The Gray Phantom by Landon, Herman

Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various

I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain.

From Faust by Taylor, Bayard