ebullience

Historical Examples

• It is this ebullience of youthful energy, this inexhaustible vitality, which is the admiration and despair of his contemporaries.

  The Grand Old Man

  Richard B. Cook

• The spring was stirring everywhere, and Robert raced along, feeling in every vein a life, an ebullience akin to that of nature.

  Robert Elsmere

  Mrs. Humphry Ward

• For Southeys well known rejoinder to this ebullience of schematism, see Life and Correspondence, ii.

  Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. I (of 2)

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• It is full of remarkable qualities: wit, humour, an ebullience of animal spirits that is Rabelaisian.

  Old Familiar Faces

  Theodore Watts-Dunton

• This was a bit of his clowning humor, a purely manufactured and as it were mechanical joke or ebullience of soul.

  Twelve Men

  Theodore Dreiser