exult

• Will he exult, as the ambitious man would, at having taken successfully the longest step towards his goal? —  The Man Shakespeare
• The Melbourne people exult--and not unjustifiably--in the Melbourne Cup and on the spectacle presented at its running. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• Did I exult, as the billows swelled beneath me and bore me up on their foaming crests, in the power of raising the whirlwind and the tempest? —  Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
• He then seems to exult, and says, "I am glad that I am not in conscientious subjection to any mode of doing anything in religion, as being essential to the thing itself Mother. —  Bertha and Her Baptism
• Nor could he contemplate it without beginning to exult, and little by little his spirits lifted and even the tragedy of giving up Diana became a sacred and a beautiful thing. —  The Enchanted Canyon

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