What is "exult"

Usage examples of "exult".

You might say I collected-even exulted in-every nihilistic book, thought, and person, and this is not difficult for we live in a very depersonalizing and negative age.

Esolesy Ki the Lishcyn but not the Esen of my core, warming the surrounding air slightly with the exothermic result, exulting in the expansion of sensation and relief of effort as my molecular self assumed its true configuration: the teardrop web-form of my kind.

And now, excited by the near prospect of comparative rest and freedom, I exulted in the idea of exchanging the red--lined roads and yellow mullock heaps, the iron or wooden shanties, the sombre shadeless forest, amid which I had sojourned so long, for the cool streets, the lofty freestone walls, the massed flower thickets, and the unfamiliar luxuries of the City of the Sea.

Though at first we exulted in the refreshment of a hammam bath and rubbing, and were pleased to have our meals cooked and presented to us by servants, we soon found ourselves vexed by the noise and agitation and turmoil of indoor living.

On the hustings his words appeared to spring instinctively from him as he exulted in his dreams for Canada, all the while blazing away against invisible villains who, unlike himself, had little concern for the common man.

Nut Kut, who had already made his reputation as the most deadly fighter known to the mahouts, was exulting in strength.

An exulting glance went round the circle, and hands were laid upon hidden weapons.

When Dresden was destroyed later on, incidentally, Lazzaro did not exult.

The Phane owners sat in a lower tier, tense with hope and pride, exulting when one made an especially splendid display, plunged into black depths when the ritual postures were performed with other than grace and elegance.

The summery air and earth seemed to be exulting fantastically in luminescent figures and a thousand tiny wheeling constellations.

It would be fun, Myron exulted, to see new great things with an unjaded girl like this--cities and tall towers and mountains.

You are yet in this smiling England, but you find yourself wending away to the dark sides of her mountains, climbing the dizzy crags, exulting in the fellowship of mists and clouds, and watching the storms how they gather, or proving the mettle of your mare upon the broad and dreary downs, because that you feel congenially with the yet unparcelled earth.

Batman exulted as orange flame blossomed in the distance and Malibu abruptly lost the tracking lock on the AWG-9.

It was the trackers exulting on the trail of the pursued, the prolonged, raucous howl, eager, ominous, vibrating with the alarm of the tocsin, sullen with the heavy muffling note of death.

The writer evidently exults in the thought that, at the second coming of Christ, death shall lose its retributive character and the under world be baffled of its expected prisoners, because the living shall instantly experience the change of bodies fitting them to ascend to heaven with the returning and triumphant Lord.