Exciting

Examples

• Her lover was no longer to her an exciting man whom many women strove for, and herself could only retain by striving with them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• An exciting time it is when that turn comes round. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was undeniably exciting to meet a lady who found the van der Luydens' Duke dull, and dared to utter the opinion. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• My next proceeding was to gain as much additional evidence as I could procure from other people without exciting suspicion. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Or how could she postpone the journey without exciting suspicion? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Such an elaborately developed, perplexing, exciting dream was certainly never dreamed by a girl in Eustacia's situation before. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It moved every feeling of wonder and awe, that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• I think it would be exciting. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The debates were exciting, and were upon the subject of the situation the South was in at that time, particularly the State of Georgia. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Legree could not help overhearing this whispering; and it was all the more exciting to him, from the pains that were taken to conceal it from him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• When this social aim is overlooked, however, the study of primitive life becomes simply a rehearsing of sensational and exciting features of savagery. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The story is completer and rather more exciting than I supposed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey's accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But that morning something exciting had happened at the Hall. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, from having been longer than usual absent from Surry, were exciting of course rather more than the usual interest. Jane Austen. Emma.
• For pride and humility are pure emotions in the soul, unattended with any desire, and not immediately exciting us to action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Crispin is born to sit down and tinkle a lute, you are born to handle a sword and lead an exciting career. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Shivering, dripping, and crying, they got Amy home, and after an exciting time of it, she fell asleep, rolled in blankets before a hot fire. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Meanwhile, he saw enough of Fanny's embarrassment to make him scrupulously guard against exciting it a second time, by any word, or look, or movement. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Think I have--thousands of times--not here--West Indies-- exciting thing--hot work--very. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It was almost as exciting as riding a fast horse, when we went rushing on so grandly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The Countess Southdown kept on dropping per coach at the lodge-gate the most exciting tracts, tracts which ought to frighten the hair off your head. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Our chance of seeing each other again might entirely depend on our not exciting any fresh suspicions. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Asia was more exciting, however; and I had some good tiger-hunting in India. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• No event could have been more exciting. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And it was not only the Roman push eastward that was now exciting Napoleon's brain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The defiance was more exciting than the confidence, but it was less sure. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But we have not yet mentioned the heaviest count in the indictment--the power which poetry has of injuriously exciting the feelings. Plato. The Republic.
• It is human nature to take delight in exciting admiration. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The exciting fact was her having lived in an atmosphere so thick with drama that her own tendency to provoke it had apparently passed unperceived. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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