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.
And at the zenith of his fame, how he would suddenly appear at the old village and stalk into church, brown and weather-beaten, in his black velvet doublet and trunks, his great jack-boots, his crimson sash, his belt bristling with horse-pistols, his crime-rusted cutlass at his side, his slouch hat with waving plumes, his black flag unfurled, with the skull and crossbones on it, and hear with swelling ecstasy the whisperings, "It's Tom Sawyer the Pirate!
Walters' ecstasy complete, and that was a chance to deliver a Bible-prize and exhibit a prodigy.
" When Wendy returned diffidently she found Peter sitting on the bed-post crowing gloriously, while Jane in her nighty was flying round the room in solemn ecstasy.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;; To return home at eventide with gratitude; ; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
" The lion answers, "He makes me run around the forest like an idiot each time he's on ecstasy!
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy --- ecstasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.
I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;; To return home at eventide with gratitude ;; And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;;To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;; To return home at eventide with gratitude;; And then to sleep with a payer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
