athrill
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of athrill
Example Sentences
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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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
John Hunter rode at her side, watching the soft curls on her round girlish neck, athrob and athrill with her presence, and trying to formulate the thing he had brought her out to say.
From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.
Yet all the summer wind was athrill with harmony.
From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
And the attention of us all is athrill with mighty interest.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
Why could he not have slept on forever, he thought, his whole being athrill with the memory revived by his dreams?
From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram
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