"Ecstasy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... waists melted mysteriously into the central sanctuary of the flower. Their long arms and golden tresses waved languishingly downward in the breeze; their eyes glittered like diamonds; their breaths perfumed the air. A blind ecstasy seized me—I awoke again to humanity, and fiercely clasping the tree, shook and tore at it, in the blind hope of bringing nearer to me the magic beauties above: for I knew that I was in the famous land of Wak-Wak, from which the Eastern ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... the nucleus around which all flowers and perfume and everything beautiful revolved. And now she was about to open a mystic shrine, into which she would step and see and know and feel with youth's ecstasy a strange development of essential existence. And after wondering and speculating upon the affairs of love, she entered into prayerful thought of Lord Cedric's servant, and soon fell ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne
... to amuse themselves by flinging the clean-picked bones of deer and hare along the glassy ice of the Volga. Prince Alexis, perceiving this diverson, cried out in ecstasy,— ...
— Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home • Bayard Taylor
... Mrs. Patterson's arms in an ecstasy of delight. "I'm so glad that it hurts," she exclaimed. "I'd forgot what good times there are ...
— Honey-Sweet • Edna Turpin
... leaning on Flore's arm to reach the place were Joseph was standing in ecstasy before an Albano, "—it seems that you ...
— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac
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