ecstasies

There's a smile that you see on the faces of these people that looks as if they're in ecstasies of happiness as they walk into a restaurant.

Relationships of Invention 2002

There's a smile that you see on the faces of these people that looks as if they're in ecstasies of happiness as they walk into a restaurant.

Relationships of Invention 2002

The pigs were in ecstasies over Napoleon’s cunning.

Animal Farm 1945

The boys were in ecstasies over everything – most of all, because they might help along.

The Girl from the Marsh Croft 1910

If we deserve or attain beatitude, such things shall at last be our settled state; and their now sudden influence upon the soul in short ecstasies is the proof that they stand outside time, and are not subject to decay.

The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911

Little Lady at the piano; the black Governor grinning in ecstasies close by; the Kadi in his magnificent shawl-turban; the Mudîr half-asleep; the air thick with tobacco smoke; and above all – dominant, tyrannous, overpowering – the crash and clang, the involved harmonies, and the multitudinous combinations of Tannhäuser.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

The club on the opposition side of the street was in ecstasies; its members shook each other by the hand till their arms ached; they declared the King to be the wisest monarch that had ever reigned, and that the country was saved, and revolution arrested.

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

Amelia was in ecstasies on her arrival at Eskdale.

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

"Lady Portmore must be in ecstasies," said Lady Walden, "at the triumph of what she calls her party."

The Semi-Attached Couple 1860

"That I can answer for," said Baron Moses, who was in ecstasies with his mother's discomfiture, "civility was not your forte just at the moment.

The Semi-Detached House 1859