Excitements
[ik'saitmənts]
Examples
- I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She said you were used to all kinds of things--splendours and amusements and excitements--that we could never hope to give you here. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- She is not of a disposition to find resources in the conventional gaieties and excitements of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- To me they stood in the place of an active career, of ambition, and those palpable excitements necessary to the multitude. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mr. Quale, who presented himself soon after our arrival, was in all such excitements. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Editor: Xenia