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  • noun Plural form of exhilarant.

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Examples

  • The exhilarants show the same geographic control; with the olive culture go the wines and brandies of the south; with the forest culture, the ciders and the cherry brandies of Central Europe; with the copious cereals and meadow-grass, the beers and whiskies of the North.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

  • Cradled as a drowsy Spanish pueblo, reared as a child of the mines, and fed on all the exhilarants of the gold-spangled days of the Argonauts,

    Fascinating San Francisco Andrew Y. Wood

  • There are certain spiritual exhilarants that nullify caution, warning the presence of danger.

    The Drums of Jeopardy Harold MacGrath 1901

  • I have retained a good sound appetite through the whole of it, without any craving after exhilarants or narcotics, and I have got well as in a moment.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847

  • I have retained a good sound appetite through the whole of it, without any craving after exhilarants or narcotics, and I have got well as in a moment.

    Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

  • I have retained a good sound appetite through the whole of it, without any craving after exhilarants or narcotics, and I have got well as in a moment.

    Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • a good sound appetite through the whole of it, without any craving after exhilarants or narcotics, and I have got well as in a moment.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

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