athrill
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of athrill
Example Sentences
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Fifteen, and athrill with a strange new pulse; flushed, as the dawn, with the promise of day.
From The Kempton-Wace Letters by Jack London
Quietly, intimately, he smiled at the sound, good old world, athrill with the wonder and beauty of life.
From The Destroying Angel by Louis Joseph Vance
The haunting phrase leaped to my brain and I stood staring at the departing carriage athrill with excitement.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
Yet all the summer wind was athrill with harmony.
From Lorraine A romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
I hardly knew what I hoped or expected, but I was all athrill with a nameless, inexplicable happiness.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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