elate

• Whoever tries to imagine the scene, in which the great procession entered through the gates, so long sealed, or of the moment when the royal banner of Spain was first flying out upon the Tower of the Vela, must remember that Columbus, elate, at last, with hopes for his own great discovery, saw the triumph and joined in the display But his success was not immediate, even now. —  The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time.
• This lifted head and hood was sustained, elate--having the moveless calm one might imagine at the centre of a solar system. —  Son of Power
• She was sensible that the latter showed to small advantage being rather foolishly excited and elate, and felt vexed the maids should hear and see her behaving thus. —  Deadham Hard
• Instead of being elate, his spirits seemed to fall as he made his arrival at the village certain Ah!" —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861
• But in their hearts they were secretly a little elate, as in latter years they had come to know, by books and papers which Stephen forced them to hear or to read, that he was really in sympathy with well-known writers in this matter of the adornment of homes, the love of beautiful things even in every-day life A little more than a year before the time at which our story begins, Stephen's father had died. —  Mercy Philbrick's Choice

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