Excited

Examples

• They appeared to be always excited about canvassing and electing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• If the question concerned an outfit for Borrioboola, Ma would know all about it and would be quite excited. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• How Beth got excited, and skipped and sang with joy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Did no suspicion, excited by my own knowledge of Anne Catherick's resemblance to her, cross my mind, when her face was first revealed to me? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When Mrs. Sykes is afraid of the house being attacked and broke open--as she is every night--I get quite excited. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But gradually the sense of complete subjugation came over her, and she wondered languidly what had made her feel so uneasy and excited. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Try it,' said the little creature, with an excited and exultant face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But they could not really talk, because of the glassy ravel of women's excited, cold laughter and running voices. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• This appearance excited our unqualified wonder. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• These things, and others of a like nature, excited admiration in all that saw him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Ursula was excited and happy, but she kept turning suddenly to catch hold of Birkin's arm, to make sure of him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• My fall excited no comment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Beautifully finished furniture in quartered oak has always excited the pleasure, and piqued the curiosity of the uninformed as to how this result is obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Wildeve began to be as excited as Christian himself. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was with feelings of excited expectancy which I could scarce hide that I heard the youth's approach upon the occasion of his next regular visit. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• You are rather excited, but you are quite yourself. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The bar-maid appeared from the inner regions of the parlour, excited and preoccupied. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Forgive my enthusiasm; I am becoming excited; but when I see her trampled underfoot, I am angry at the authors of her disgrace. Plato. The Republic.
• Her harmlessness and her fancy for dressing in white excited a certain amount of sympathy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Did you observe his excited eye, Mr. Jinks? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Without the present impression, the attention is not fixed, nor the spirits excited. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She looked flushed and excited, and she came forward at once, and spoke to me before I could open my lips. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The first stroke went clear off the blank; he was so excited that he had the operator write the message for him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But such as they were, it may well be supposed how eagerly she went through them, and what a contrariety of emotion they excited. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• His suspicions were excited,--the dreadful scene took place between my Lord and my cruel, cruel Rawdon--and, O my God, what will happen next? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What was there in our tranquillity, that excited your envy--in our happiness, that ye should destroy it? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Mr. Winsor's absurd statements--in the truth of which he potently believed--and the wild, random manner of making them known, excited much ridicule and opposition. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.

Typist: Wolfgang