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Ten minutes ago I had been exulting in the glories of the morning, and now the sun was not less bright or the colours less fair, but the heart had gone out of the spectator.

From Prester John by Buchan, John

He who had been exulting in having put their necks under his foot had been himself struck down in the moment of his triumph.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Only the morning before she had been exulting over the humiliation of Trevethlan, and now her own hearth was desolate.

From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

This was the woman who, half an hour ago, had been exulting in the adequacy of her common sense.

From Leonora by Bennett, Arnold

Evidently the Count was a wealthy man, and evidently too there was not that shortage of petrol in Germany that some of the English papers had been exulting over of late.

From With Haig on the Somme by Webb, Archibald