exultance

There was an exultance about his bearing and a keenness like that of a hunting animal catching the fresh scent of game.

All Gold Canon 2010

There was an exultance about his bearing and a keenness like that of a hunting animal catching the fresh scent of game.

All Gold Cañon 2010

Then the exultance grew to be a sharp pain of desire that ran through his body in a hot river ....

The Rescue of John Steinbeck Gottlieb, Robert 2008

To surge with that cold exultance and passion of a sea thing!

Kangaroo 2004

He wanted to be cold, cold, and alone like a single fish, with no feeling in his heart at all except a certain icy exultance and wild, fish – like rapacity.

Kangaroo 2004

Hardly had I reached it before Rador came hurrying up, in his manner a curious exultance mingled with what in anyone else I would have called a decided nervousness.

The Moon Pool 2004

In the sperm whale, intense is the passion of amorous love, intense is the cold exultance in power, isolate kingship.

Kangaroo 2004

Then they slipped out again, slipped out of the ocean with a sort of sly exultance.

Kangaroo 2004

It was as if a stone had been rolled off them all, and she heard their voice for the first time, deep, wild, with a certain exultance and menace.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

And the roll of that relentless chanting, with its undertone of exultance in power and life, rolled through the air like an invisible dark presence.

The Plumed Serpent 2003