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Fifteen, and athrill with a strange new pulse; flushed, as the dawn, with the promise of day.
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I am yet fresh from it, and athrill with it and with the promise of it.
CHAPTER L 2010
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They loved him so well that they were fain to keep him always, warm and athrill in their hearts.
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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She found no clear answer, but thought, perspective, together with wind and sea and the tiller athrill beneath her hand, granted a certain calm.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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She found no clear answer, but thought, perspective, together with wind and sea and the tiller athrill beneath her hand, granted a certain calm.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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She molded herself to him, each and every separate nerve alive and athrill.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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She molded herself to him, each and every separate nerve alive and athrill.
Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991
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The quiet little circle of turf was athrill with life; the air, the warm soil, the clumps of bracken whence the hidden crickets shrilled, the pinkish grasses which bore the tiny interlocked bodies of the mating flies -- everything told of life, life, life.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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The whole atmosphere seemed sentient and athrill with the surge of some deep-lying emotion.
The Lamp of Fate Margaret Pedler
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For a while they were quiet, their minds busy with plans for perfecting their own radio outfits, their imaginations athrill with anticipation of the wonders they were yet to perform.
The Radio Boys' First Wireless Or Winning the Ferberton Prize Allen Chapman
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