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  • Wherefore, this contemplative devotion, wherein, as it is pretended, the soul is ecstasied into an advance of the will and affections above all the actings of the mind or understanding, hath no one property of prayer, as the nature of it is manifest in the light of nature and common agreement of mankind.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Perhaps I am over-sensitive, but I have ecstasied moments when to me it seems the grass is greener, the sky bluer than they are to most; I surrender my heart to wonder and joy; I am in tune with the triumphant cadence of Things; I am an atom of praise; I live, therefore I exult.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • The crowd was again ecstasied, and gave another lurch in which Coggan and Poorgrass were again thrust by those behind upon the women in front.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • The crowd was again ecstasied, and gave another lurch in which Coggan and Poorgrass were again thrust by those behind upon the women in front.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • Thine was the first roof in this land of hospitable homes that sheltered me; and oh! thy hands compounded the first julep which for long, long months had ecstasied my lips, thou has to

    Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor" 1858

  • His sense was ecstasied and his breast broadened, and he forgot his strangerhood and said in himself, Verily, this Queen is young and beautiful340 and I will never leave her; for her kingdom is vaster than my kingdom and she is fairer than Princess Jauharah.’’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Ali Agha jumped up, seized the visitor by the shoulder, compelled him to sit down, and, ecstasied by the old man’s horror at the scene, filled a tumbler, and with the usual grotesque grimaces insisted upon its being drunk off.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • I am sublimely ecstasied that I did not miss you. "

    The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

  • She has the ecstasied air of a lovely child on her birthday -- with all her world filled with petting and birthday gifts. "

    Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • His sense was ecstasied and his breast broadened, and he forgot his strangerhood and said in himself, "Verily, this Queen is young and beautiful [FN#340] and I will never leave her; for her kingdom is vaster than my kingdom and she is fairer than

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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