exultancy

This event he anticipated with a thrill, with the exultancy over change which is common of all life.

CHAPTER 7 2010

First of all men of his breed was he to enter this lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace.

IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH 2010

They were close enough now that I could see Jamie's face, calm and intent, absorbed with the exultancy of battle.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Far beyond elementary school, in the broader southern white culture I grew up in, there was an odd exultancy about Appomattox that had nothing to do with vicarious relief at the end of that brutal war.

THE NEWS BLOG 2005

Alessio watched her go, caught between exultancy and irritation, with a heaped measure of sexual frustration thrown in.

The Count's Blackmail Bargain Craven, Sara 2005

Through the rest of the dinner he was silent, a prey to that dark exultancy, to that uncanny agitation.

The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

First of all men of his breed was he to enter this lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace.

In the Forests of the North 1902

Then were to be heard the groans of the wounded and dying; then for the first time the yell of the Doomsmen broke forth, ear-piercing in its exultancy.

The Doomsman Van Tassel Sutphen 1903

"Oho!" thought Fitzgerald, with malicious exultancy.

A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901

But with introspection, this exultancy grew suddenly dim.

A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901