(I now have my arms spread above my head and am looking up in exaltation). From Wordnik.com. [The /Filmcast: After Dark - Ep. 90 - Comparing the US Office with the UK Office (GUEST: Eric Vespe from Ain’t It Cool News) | /Film] Reference
They brayed and snorted high above him, haloed in exaltation of dominance by the cell light glare. From Wordnik.com. [Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners] Reference
Every cry of admiration for him was one of reproach to them, his exaltation was their abasement, his victories were their defeats!. From Wordnik.com. [The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise] Reference
I was in a kind of exaltation, my head tilted back to stare up those rungs, hands and feet flying, the ledge rushing toward me. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
"No -- it's exaltation, which is a very different thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
“No — it’s exaltation, which is a very different thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ambassadors] Reference
She looked at him with a kind of exaltation, spurning him from her path. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage à la mode] Reference
Yet, in those high airs and in such solitude, a kind of exaltation comes to men. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
From the kind of exaltation to which his resolve had lifted him he dropped to an unreasoning apathy. From Wordnik.com. [The Touchstone] Reference
He had a kind of exaltation in his look; he seemed to expect something, not at hand, but sure to come. From Wordnik.com. [Heather and Snow] Reference
My sister, I knew, was filled with the kind of exaltation that made her gentle even to stairs and door-knobs. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Wheel A Novel] Reference
Mr. Justice Wills evidently suffered from the peculiar "exaltation" of mind which he had recognised in Shelley. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde His Life and Confessions]
He stood upon a pinnacle whence lesser details were invisible; he knew a kind of exaltation -- of loftier vision. From Wordnik.com. [The Centaur] Reference
He was in a kind of exaltation that made him equal to any task or danger, and rather to court, instead of avoiding them. From Wordnik.com. [The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness] Reference
We have an "exaltation" of larks and a "charm" of finches, but what's the right collective noun for a bunch of astronomers?. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Bella's presence seemed to excite him to a kind of exaltation; he had a dark flush on his face and his eyes were large and shiny. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
"Ah, no, Gabriele!" answered Petrea, "this childish desire is long past; it is another kind of exaltation than this, that I pine for.". From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
There can be no doubt that Major Anderson and the garrison were in that state of morbid exaltation which is the forerunner of martyrdom. From Wordnik.com. [A southern girl in '61 : the war-time memories of a Confederate senator's daughter,] Reference
"exaltation" and "the Name;" and many other absurd corollaries will hence follow. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
"A deification of humanity upon its own grounds, an exaltation which is all height and no depth, wants power because it wants truth. From Wordnik.com. [Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890] Reference
It was a stillness, more than any kind of noisy exaltation. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Apostle' Speaks] Reference
But when the exaltation stops, we revert to contemporary attitudes. From Wordnik.com. [Scammed Too Often] Reference
Christ's exaltation, like His humiliation, includes five stages. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
Do not accuse me in all this of exaggeration, or of poetic exaltation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Hum!" said the lover, whose exaltation was sensibly cooled at this sight. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Has America's exaltation of black athleticism created that Hobson's choice?. From Wordnik.com. [The House That Jack Built] Reference
Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
This exaltation of suffering may be difficult for many non-Catholics to understand. From Wordnik.com. ['PRECIOUS' SUFFERING] Reference
The majority of the guests shared his imprudent abandon and progressive exaltation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A lot of people, younger as well as older, have joined in exaltation of those warriors. From Wordnik.com. [Scammed Too Often] Reference
And I sent it over, and they called me back in a state of exaltation of what I had written. From Wordnik.com. [Jimmy Webb: From 'Phoenix' To 'Just Across The River'] Reference
Her mind had reached that state of exaltation which renders imperceptible the transition from dreaming to reality. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It will make him with gladness accept of the lowest room, as counting all saints more worthy of exaltation than himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
After so many promises, so much useless exaltation, so many plans and hopes, what had I, in fact, accomplished in three months?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His countenance showed a state of exaltation which belied, for the time being, the pacific theories he had expounded a few days before. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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