Excitements

SESAY: Excitements about Obama's candidacy extends to South Africa, where news organizations are devoting heavy coverage to the story.

CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2008 2008

Excitements from the wants of the body — Excitements from the operation of general laws — Excitements from the difficulties of life arising from the principle of population.

An Essay on the Principle of Population 2002

Discipline, that we might have a fair Opportunity and continual Excitements to labour after a cheerful Resignation to all the Events of Providence, after Habits of Virtue, Self Government, and Piety.

John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

'Excitements of his reason and his blood' once more call him to revenge.

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

-- Excitements have been crowding in upon us to-day.

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

He told them a great deal more, but it cannot be certain that they heard it all, for there were other Excitements about besides their cousin -- the fire, the time, the place, and above all, this marvellous coming of the darkness.

A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

_Excitements, ideas, and efforts_, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.

Memories and Studies William James 1876

Excitements were, however, not yet over for the day.

The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

But they who duly worship God in temples made with hands, meet every hour of their lives "Devotional Excitements" as they walk among His works; and in the later poetry of Wordsworth these abound -- age having solemnised the whole frame of his being, that was always alive to religious emotions -- but more than ever now, as around his paths in the evening of life longer fall the mysterious shadows.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

Military Pomp -- Decorations in the Streets -- Effect produced on the Mind by Sacred Music -- Excitements to Religious Fervour -- the _Miserere_, 30.

The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819