"Jubilantly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... was louder still. It pierced the ears with a shower of tiny lances; it made the heart beat jubilantly—and checked it dolorously. It closed the throat with a throb of rapture and gripped it tight with the hand of ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... it!" Morey cried jubilantly. "The first men ever to leave Earth—I'm going to start the old sender and radio back home! Man—look at that stretch of plain!" He jumped to his feet and started across the control room. "Lord—I feel like of ton of lead now—I sure am out of ...
— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell
... hard battle. It lasted for full two hours, and—in the end—the Britisher struck, with twelve killed and a number wounded, while the American loss was but one killed and two wounded. The Pomona kept upon her course, jubilantly. ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston
... escaped there remains the Assize Court with a jury that will need to be brave indeed if it is to resist all the pressure of a deliberately organised "terror." At the end possibly lie imprisonment, fine, disgrace, ruin. How jubilantly some are already rubbing their hands in the bishops' palaces, the parsonages, the sacristies of France! Ah! no stone will be kept unturned to secure a conviction! But Emile Zola does not waver. It may be the truth, the whole truth will only be known ...
— With Zola in England • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
... walls enclosed it on every side, and from the broad, travelled highway that ran beside it the dusty and wearied wayfarer often lifted his eyes to the profusion of gay roses, the syringa, and star-eyed jasmine that tumbled jubilantly over the edge, and hung their scented wreaths far above his head. The tinkling of a fountain could be heard within, and the mad rapture of song from the birds in the evening, when the scent of the orange blossom stole softly out on the radiant golden air. On the other side of the garden was ...
— Six Women • Victoria Cross
... encouragement were of the greatest value. Clemens even offered to engage Goodman on a salary, to remain until he had finished his book. Goodman declined the salary, but extended his visit, and Mark Twain at last seems to have found himself working under ideal conditions. He jubilantly reports ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... the operative, announced to Henry Blaine the next morning, jubilantly. "He left his rooms about an hour after I got back on the job, and went to Carlis' office. He only stayed a short time, and came out looking as black as a thunder-cloud—I guess the interview, whatever ...
— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
... yore prisoner now, Mr. Ranger. Much obliged for savin' us the trouble of tearin' down the soddy," he called jubilantly. ...
— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine
... year 1941 ended, America was in World War II; and all American advocates of world-peace-through-world-law-and-world-government jubilantly struck while the iron was hot—using the hysteria and confusion of the early days of our involvement in the great catastrophe as a means of pushing us into one or another of the schemes for ...
— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot
... said jubilantly. "I could have banked on you. You're a big woman, my dear, and I believe we are going ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... You'd be sure to find friends," Mary Rose told him jubilantly. "That's the beautiful part of ...
— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett
... an engaging characteristic of Baudin throughout. He was evidently proud of what his expedition had already done, and was, as Flinders wrote, "communicative." Had he discovered a new harbour, he would have spoken about it jubilantly. Moreover, as Flinders explained to him how he could obtain fresh water at Port Lincoln, a fellow-navigator would surely have been glad to reciprocate by indicating the whereabouts of a harbour in which the Investigator might possibly be glad to take shelter ...
— Terre Napoleon - A history of French explorations and projects in Australia • Ernest Scott
... Eliot's visit to the Cottage, want of thought, in addition to a very natural semi-maternal pride, led Maria Coombe into confiding jubilantly into the ear of Mrs. Thorowgood—laundress and purveyor of local gossip—the fact that her Miss Ann and "the Squire up to Heronsmere" were going to make a match of it. Mrs. Thorowgood, not to be outdone, responded to the effect that she had "suspicioned" all along ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... the Prime Minister's statement that the food supplies of the country had become very low, and that the strictest economy would have to be used. Appeals were made to the nation to conserve all our food resources, while the Germans jubilantly proclaimed that in three months we should ...
— "The Pomp of Yesterday" • Joseph Hocking
... is," cried Teddy jubilantly. "It's Ross and the Sleuth. Now we can compare notes about the ...
— The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove - Or, The Missing Chest of Gold • Spencer Davenport
... Mary paraded jubilantly around the room in her new slippers, the rosebud sash tied around her gingham apron, the pink parasol held high above her head, and her face such a picture of delight that one could not look ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston
... minutes after that Miki lay still while the blood made its way slowly through his numbed and half-frozen limbs. At last he staggered to his feet, and then it was that Le Beau chuckled jubilantly and turned back to ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood
... engines,' exclaimed Hotham jubilantly. 'Settled her hash all right. Gad, they've got pluck. They're still shooting. Ah, did you hear that, Carrington?'—as the submarine quivered again slightly. 'That was a shell. It struck the water ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges
... the prosperous doctor-banker, was jubilantly called Averardo—"Blessed with good means," and the younger was christened Chiarissimo III., to mark quite sententiously that, whilst his bank-balance was considerable, it had ...
— The Tragedies of the Medici • Edgcumbe Staley
... knew him a man among ten thousand. He might be capable of great sin, but what he did would be done with his eyes wide open and not from innate weakness. Her heart sang jubilantly. How could she ever have dreamed this crime of him? Her trust was now ...
— The Highgrader • William MacLeod Raine
... so when you were under my roof, at my invitation.' Then Laguerre wired the commandantes at all the seaports to seize the warehouses and officers of the Isthmian Line, and even its ships, and to occupy the buildings with troops. He means business," Miller cried, jubilantly. "This time it's a fight ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... erased that ever-recurring epitaph over Bryan's political grave. It was evident at once that nothing could prevent him from being again the candidate in 1908. Again he was defeated, and again the epitaph was jubilantly rewritten. He was extinguished, he would never again be an influence in the party; it was, to use the phrase of 1896, 1900, and 1904, "the ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... young soldiers resumed their walk. Just as soon as they were out of earshot of Captain Cortland, Noll broke forth jubilantly: ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock
... all right then," cried the rosy lady jubilantly. "I can manage James A. if that bird is ...
— Anne Of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... quite ready to encounter the ghost, so he jubilantly turned the machine from the road into a grass-grown lane. We zigzagged for some distance and then got out and went on foot through a grove. The moon and the stars were half veiled by some light, ...
— Our Next-Door Neighbors • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... hour later, the new colored butler was carrying the papers back to Bartlett & Bangs's, and Mr. Randolph's new secretary was sawing wood in Madam Bartlett's cellar. It was a humble beginning, but he whistled jubilantly as he worked. Already he saw himself climbing, by brilliant and spectacular deeds, to a dazzling pinnacle of ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... the checker board, his voice rising above the noise of the playing children, slapping his sides jubilantly) Ha! Ha! I got you now. Go ahead on and move, Joe Clark ... jus' go ahead on ...
— The Mule-Bone: - A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts • Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes
... for the forest!'" sang Tom Gray jubilantly, as he waved his stout walking stick over the low stone wall that separated the party ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... clearing and woods. Then, as Alex recovered the lantern, he caught him under one arm, carried him down the ladder, and there, despite his objections, hoisted him to the shoulders of two of the now enthusiastic Poles, and all set off jubilantly down the spur for the switch, ...
— The Young Railroaders - Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity • Francis Lovell Coombs
... Brad; just you count on that," remarked Corney, jubilantly. "Say, what we'll do to him will be aplenty. There, didn't you see the way he yanked his head up that time? Reckon he's beginning to get scared right now; ...
— Fred Fenton on the Crew - or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School • Allen Chapman
... a wide road and clear," he said jubilantly. "We are alone and we are merely drifting. The machine is alive with happiness. Rosalie—Rosalie, I could shout for joy! You do love me? You ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... (Betrachtungen uber die Werke Gottes in der Natur), which he recommended to the priests for wide distribution among the people. He saw the hand of God in even the most insignificant natural phenomenon. God was to him the Supreme Being whom he had jubilantly hymned in the choral portion of the Ninth Symphony in the words of Schiller: "Brothers, beyond you starry canopy there must dwell a loving Father!" Beethoven's relationship to God was that of a child toward his loving father to whom he confides ...
— Beethoven: the Man and the Artist - As Revealed in his own Words • Ludwig van Beethoven
... time, thanks to my pony," Agnes said jubilantly. "Come on with your steeds, gentlemen; don't mind it, if ...
— Three Young Pioneers - A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country • John Theodore Mueller
... "You've passed through five regiments already, and there are as many more in the dark places. They're everywhere!" he cried jubilantly. ...
— The Red Cross Girl • Richard Harding Davis
... quite forgot how badly she had wanted Ernest to have an education, when she learned that he could only come home once a year, and then only for a short month. She sighed so much and was so distraught, that the family were almost afraid to rejoice with Ernest, when he came home jubilantly waving his physician's certificate. ...
— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie
... jubilantly, still clutching Deering's arm, "fate has again been kind to us; we are among folk of quality, as I had ...
— The Madness of May • Meredith Nicholson
... he said jubilantly. "It really works." He waltzed her away from the desk, to the ...
— Final Weapon • Everett B. Cole
... sides which lasted until they took their places, eager and alert, ready to make good if the opportunity presented itself. After a brief interval the dressing room doors opened again and the real teams appeared. This time the burst of song became so jubilantly noisy that the president of the college half rose in his seat as though to signal for order, then, apparently changing his mind, settled himself in his chair, smiling broadly. Immediately the song ended the referee's whistle blew and the great ...
— Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... exclaimed jubilantly, "you've sure got it coming—and mama, how I do hate to see a good horse suffering for a feed or water, or ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... than she had been seven weeks before. And on Sunday morning the wind was failing. The big sea was going down and running smooth. Both watches were on deck setting sail after sail as fast as the ship could stand it. And now Captain Cullen went around brazenly before God, smoking a big cigar, smiling jubilantly, as if the failing wind delighted him, while down underneath he was raging against God for taking the life out of the blessed wind. Make westing! So he would, if God would only leave him alone. Secretly, he pledged himself anew to the Powers ...
— When God Laughs and Other Stories • Jack London
... General hum of excitement and pleasure. Animated and colorful groups. Boone smokes the war-pipe when it is passed to him. Drinks and eats freely with the others. Through it all, now soft, now loud, sounds the drone of the war-drum. Now and again a young buck yells jubilantly, or ejaculates a shrill "E-yah!" of pleasure. They rise from feasting to dance in a war-circle about the drum, right. Boone does a few steps with them, and then retreats to left of stage. More dances. Speeches ...
— Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People • Constance D'Arcy Mackay |
