Now came an exultant brief from the pope.
"You have nothing to regret," he said sadly to the exultant chancellor, " but I have !
That word startled my soul, and it awoke, full of the spirit of the morning, full of joyous, exultant song.
Their heads were cut off and despatched to Rome, where they were burnt on the Campus Martius by the exultant crowd.
exultant voices in heaven.
exultant joy.
exultant crowds of Russians gathered round them.
The exuberant cry fades, stills, rises to an exultant roar and the creature bolts, startled by its own temerity.
unaccompanied choir brings the work to an exultant close.
The unaccompanied choir brings the work to an exultant close.
The books which inspired the two cinematic epics of 1999 are exultant calls to national pride at times of turbulance.
The Rhine-daughters' exultant cry of " Rhine-gold " is there tortured in an extremely remote modulation at the end of a very sinister transformation of the theme; and the orchestration, with its lurid but smothered brass instruments, its penetrating low reed tones and its weird drum-roll beaten on a suspended cymbal, is more awe-inspiring than anything dreamed of by the cleverest of those composers who do not create intellectual causes for their effects.
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