ecstacies

Hitler “went into ecstacies about its beauty,” Speer recalled, “his eyes glittering with an excitement that struck me as uncanny.”

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

Her ecstacies, and her furies, will always be necessary.

The Passion Of Pauline 2008

My ecstacies were still further toned down when I woke the next morning with my neck, hands, and face stinging and swollen from the bites of innumerable mosquitoes.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Barcelona, still travelling as a mendicant, always experiencing trances and ecstacies, and frequently visited by the Holy Virgin and Jesus Christ.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

All this somewhat damped my ecstacies, and contrasted unfavourably with the orderly and easy way in which I landed on the shore of the United States.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Mr. Williams and Mrs. Jewkes came to me both together; he in ecstacies, she with a strange fluttering sort of air.

Pamela 2006

"Oooh!" the others did cry out in their feminine ecstacies.

Shenanigans at the Jolliest Roger Douglas Hoffman 2005

"Oooh!" the others did cry out in their feminine ecstacies.

Archive 2005-09-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

The merchant, in ecstacies with all he saw and heard, said to himself:

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

Here was a panacea, a [Greek text] for all human woes; here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered: happiness might now be bought for a penny, and carried in the waistcoat pocket; portable ecstacies might be had corked up in a pint bottle, and peace of mind could be sent down in gallons by the mail-coach.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 2003