Ecstasies
[ekstəsiz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Ecstasy
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Examples
- Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each other's creations--worshipping the heroine of such a poem, novel, drama--thinking it fine, divine! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They were both in ecstasies. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Maurice was in ecstasies over this Eden of the South, and could not express his delight in high enough terms to his companions. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Mrs. Bute happened to be in ecstasies with the poodle, and was calling him a little darling, and a sweet little zoggy, and a pretty pet. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers; and the board were in ecstasies. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Adele ran quite wild in the midst of it: the preparations for company and the prospect of their arrival, seemed to throw her into ecstasies. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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