What is "elate"

Usage examples of "elate".

The Aphorist had elated the heart of his constant fair worshipper with a newly rounded if not newly conceived sentence, when they became aware that they were four.

True, she was also elated to know that the faithful Junior had survived their ill-fated crossing of the Cimmaron, but Ross was simply .

Denise was elated that I had found Koko so quickly and was hopeful that this might be an early break.

Longchamp, presumptuous in his nature, elated by the favor which he enjoyed with his master, and armed with the legantine commission, could not submit to an equality with the bishop of Durham: he even went so far as to arrest his colleague, and to extort from him a resignation of the earldom of Northumberland, and of his other dignities, as the price of his liberty.

Enraged by their former servitude, elated by their present glory, the slaves, under the name of Limigantes, claimed and usurped the possession of the country which they had saved.

And feel the pulse of the Silences, and stand elate once more On the verge of the yawning vastitudes that call to you in vain.

I thought he looked rather heavy and not sufficiently elated for a young man on the point of marrying such a pretty girl as Angelique.

Ned told him, accepted another sup of rum, and, feeling elated, went in search of Melia and the proceeds of his trading, which he had prudently hidden beneath some bushes at the edge of the track.

Were mingled or opposed, the like array Kept these imprisoned children of the Hours Within my hand,--and then, elate and gay, I hastened to the spot whence I had come, That I might there present it!

Elated, he leaned on a parfleche in front of him, but only for a heartbeat.

The senior Parlementaires, who had been more alarmed than elated by their victory, made haste to remove themselves from town before any further mayhem occurred.

But when he arrived he found himself oddly elated with the ease and speed, and the questionless reaction to his will.

He had already treated her to a reaming that paradoxically had left her both physically drained and emotionally elated.

But what elated and surprised them most was the remarkable salubrity of the atmosphere.

With no other woman, not even with the hottest of starlets, had he been as elated, granite-hardened, and oddly enough, soothed, in the way he was now with Kira.