Excites

Examples

• Well, well, he excites my curiosity, and I must really know before I leave him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• And therefore, I said, as we might expect, there is nothing here which invites or excites intelligence. Plato. The Republic.
• By this facility the impression is transmitted more entire, and excites a greater degree of pride and vanity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This excites the passion, connected with it; and that passion, when excited, turns our view to another idea, which is that of self. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This happens, among other cases, whenever any object excites contrary passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He is the most intimate friend of Laura's husband, and in that capacity he excites my strongest intereSt. Neither Laura nor I have ever seen him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The virtue or vice of a son or brother not only excites love or hatred, but by a new transition, from similar causes, gives rise to pride or humility. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Grief likewise is received by sympathy; and produces almost all the same consequences, and excites the same emotions as in our species. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And because he seems to care but little whether he tells the truth or not, so he scares the reader or excites his envy or his admiration. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Probably no industrial operation excites more widespread interest, when accorded publicity, than the mining of coal, and that because of the dangers which attend it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• When listening to it for the first time the conflict of emotions which it excites is difficult to analyze. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• What raptures he excites in me! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Such agreeable movements must give me an affection to every one that excites them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Each of the virtues, even benevolence, justice, gratitude, integrity, excites a different sentiment or feeling in the spectator. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• His imagination runs away with its object, and excites a passion proportioned to it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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