What is "jubilant"

Usage examples of "jubilant".

Jubilant, they set fire to Boaster and the Companions, preparing a victory pyre.

At the end of it, the gambler and cardsharp Edmund Carew had been the jubilant owner of Bonheur, along with its furniture, slaves, livestock, and grandeur.

Poor Monsieur de Courtois was here this afternoon, and he was jubilant because we had plenty of time, provided we were married this evening.

In the eagerness of their expectation the clock ticked louder than ever, the cricket chirped with more jubilant activity, the wind whistled shriller, the ghylls rumbled longer, but no welcomer sound broke the stillness.

Both of them were now jubilant over the defeat of the Great Girasol at the hands of Mr.

Hannah went home, unpacked, got supper for herself and a jubilant parent, and went to bed, to lie there, imagining Valentijn dancing into the small hours with his glamorous Nerissa.

Yeunnin-fashion down to the vodclub, sat at the table with Morana and the alien for four hours, abandoned the premises on the microdot of midnight, and slouched home, shedding his Hooyoo manner little by little, so that by the time he stepped inside his apartment, he was Brownell Lofton once again and jubilant with success.

From time to time staccato notes of delight added a distinct jubilant quality to this symphony, heralding the arrival of some group of Church dignitaries from one or other of the seven principal parishes of Venice, gorgeous in robes of high festival and displaying the choicest of treasures from sacristies munificently endowed, as was meet for an ecclesiastical body to whom belonged one half of the area of Venice, with wealth proportionate.

Bitterly, she faced the future, seeing in this jubilant reflorescence only the revenge of the bugs, mould and excrement of her slum upbringing which she had been trying to expunge all her life.

When a concrete thinkable one fell to him, he was jubilant over the isolate thing, and with his joy value had nothing to do.

But by the time Barnett concluded his business, jubilant townspeople were flocking around his car.

On Monday, September 17, John Todd burst into the Payne house looking almost as jubilant as if Dolley had finally changed her mind and agreed to marry him.

Now talking, conspiring mysteriously again upon the wall of concrete blocks, and prowling off desperately into the dark of streets, yards, and alleys, filled exultantly with the huge and evil presence of the dark, and hoping, with a kind of desperate terror and resolve, for something wicked, wild, and evil in the night, as jubilant and dark as the demonic joy that rose wildly and intolerably in their hearts.

Asian militia was jubilant, and joined with the whole population of the Maeander valley in victory celebrations which lasted for many days.

By this time in the old life you had sunk irretrievably into madness, broken in both body and mind, Meridion thought, watching the way the currents of air within his glass globe observatory made the image look as if Gwydion were running even now, caught forever in jubilant motion.