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Examples
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Here you see the lovely decorations, the most costly feast, and listen to the heart-thrilling, soul-subduing orchestra.
Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr
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There is to us more of touching pathos, heart-thrilling expression, in some of the old psalm-tunes, feelingly played, than in a whole batch of modernisms.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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There is to us more of touching pathos, heart-thrilling expression, in some of the old psalm-tunes, feelingly played, than in a whole batch of modernisms.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various
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It's all right reproducing monkey flowers and lilies for pastime, but for serious business, for real life work, I would rather do Peter's brainstorming, heart-thrilling pictures than my merely pretty ones.
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Miss Gordon had never seen the loveliness nor felt the lure of this new land -- a garden-land though it was, of winding flower-fringed roads, of cool, fairy-dells, and hilltops with heart-thrilling glimpses of lake and forest and stream.
'Lizbeth of the Dale Mary Esther Miller MacGregor 1918
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And there in that heart-thrilling episode of battlefield ethics, one may see for himself, with aid from no one, whether such a trait in our advancing civilisation is right or wrong.
The Gospel of Peace 1915
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Underneath the picture was written in Cornelia's own precious hand the heart-thrilling information:
Molly Make-Believe Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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The words of solemn sacredness hallowed for centuries beyond the memory of man, rose powerful, heart-thrilling, deep with symbolism, strong with vibrant might -- and, hand in hand, the woman and the man bowed their heads, listening:
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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I can never forget mother's heart-thrilling question 'What of my son?'
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Baree; the heart-thrilling call of the lonely graves back on the Gray
Baree, Son of Kazan James Oliver Curwood 1903
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