" "He tucked the lap robe round us, too," continued Emma Jane, in an ecstasy of reminiscence.
The day was an ecstasy, a bright expanse unstained.
He has lost many illusions concerning women; he has seen more than one friend wrecked in the sea of foolish marriage; he knows the joys of a bachelor's freedom, without having wearied of them; he perceives risks where the youth perceives only ecstasy, and the oldster only a blissful release from solitude.
At a Revival, night is the time of ecstasy and fervour and salvation; in the afternoon one must be content with preparatory praise and prayer.
Descending, I went wandering whither chance might lead, in a still ecstasy of freedom and enjoyment; and I got—I know not how—I got into the heart of city life.
She supported him calmly, in appearance; and he fixed on her features his raised eyes that seemed dilating with ecstasy.
He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee.
Philip had been right when he told her that she knew nothing of renunciation; she had thought it was quiet ecstasy; she saw it face to face now,—that sad, patient, loving strength which holds the clue of life,—and saw that the thorns were forever pressing on its brow.
Maggie was still panting for happiness, and was in ecstasy because she had found the key to it.
He was not excessively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and then supped on lobster; he had made himself ill with doses of opium.
Chardin delighted him, and Rembrandt moved him to ecstasy.
She fled, swift of foot and desperate, but he gained on her step by step, till she felt his hot breath on her neck; and still she fled silently, and silently he pursued, and when at last he seized her was it terror that thrilled her heart or was it ecstasy?
" Strickland did not speak for a long time, but his eyes shone strangely, as though he saw something that kindled his soul to ecstasy.
" cried the Toad in ecstasy, running round and round the room, and jumping over the chairs.
These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine's feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.
A cottage in some retired village would be ecstasy.
" And paused for her astounded and grateful ecstasy.
When she came to the lines The stubborn spearsmen still made good Their dark impenetrable wood, she stopped in ecstasy to shut her eyes that she might the better fancy herself one of that heroic ring.
For Anne the real excitement began with the dismissal of school and increased therefrom in crescendo until it reached to a crash of positive ecstasy in the concert itself.
Once they stood in a hesitation of ecstasy at the entrance of a narrow path between ranks of birches.
