Bared his tried blade, with honor's call elate. From Wordnik.com. [The Columbiad] Reference
Nor did the result elate his feelings in the least. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself] Reference
It will confound your enemies and elate your friends. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks Of President At Rego Event] Reference
I returned to the hotel, and retired with heart elate. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
They pushed from the shore, their young spirits elate. From Wordnik.com. [Home Lyrics] Reference
I have seen him elate when the black clouds were riven. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
They rush elate to stern debate, the battle call has never. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
The slain elate and alive again, the dust and debris alive. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Biskeborn: Memorial Day at a Veteran's Hospital] Reference
Scoffing at the lifeless man, all elate that death had humbled. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
With hearts elate to row the race, and spurt, and spurt again. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference
Therefore the Conservatives were very elate with their triumph. From Wordnik.com. [The Duke's Children] Reference
Looks he not with high hope beaming? looks he not with pride elate?. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
The thought of it made him uncomfortable and at the same time elate. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Buri (Corypha elate) is one of the Philippine palms with multiple uses. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Its faults have long since ceased to trouble, and its friends to elate me. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
But that which would elate him into some fury of action would not move me. From Wordnik.com. [John Caldigate] Reference
Happily, even a botched film is likely to elate the home crowd for a while. From Wordnik.com. [Your Inner Filmmaker] Reference
These successes, applyed to a nature too elate and arrogant of it selfe, and. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
Success made Samuel Clemens merely elate, more kindly, more humanly generous. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
It was the last day of the year, with nothing to elate us but the coming of Bobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
He held out his arms with a gesture indescribable, elate, nervous with his passion. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Choosing Clinton would elate her fans, soothing any lingering bruised feelings, a. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Team of Rivals] Reference
Howells went back to Boston tired out, but elate in the prospect of imminent fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
The recitation of those old scandals seemed to elate her as much as they horrified Doge. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]
This they knew the desert could never do, and it caused their spirits to elate with hope. From Wordnik.com. [The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West] Reference
I was so elate and hauteyn in my heart that I thought no man my peer, nor to me semblable. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
The old man and the child passed on through the glad silence, elate with hope and pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Girls from Dickens] Reference
Banford saw the ruddy, elate face on the youth: he seemed strangely tall and bright and looming. From Wordnik.com. [The Fox] Reference
Instead of being elate, his spirits seemed to fall as he made his arrival at the village certain. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
He went with his mind braced up for the subtleties of argument -- with hopes excited, heart elate. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
He was gone just the three months which he had himself named, and then returned elate with his news. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Wortle's school] Reference
He was not a man that kept secrets well: when elate on a subject, he could not avoid talking about it. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
At breakfast-time he appeared, fresh, rosy, and elate, with the announcement that his story was complete. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
Africa, and to elate and encourage the growing party whose hope was and is to see it vanish altogether. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
But the moral effect of the victory was to elate the tone of the army far above any previous act of the war. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
"Shoots invisible virtue even to the deep," enkindled, and to his own surprise made elate to hope and to dare. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
The last form is found in a number of English words; as, dilate, elate, legislate, relate, superlative, translate. From Wordnik.com. [Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois] Reference
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