Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

He was torn between the excitement in the sun-inflamed waters and a little engine chugging northward on the Monticello Branch.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

A previously extinguished conditioned reaction was restored in monkey A and was associated with typical signs of emotional excitement including sympathetic discharges.

Havana was filled with an excitement which you could see in the brightness of men's eyes and hear in the pitch of their voices.

This reviewer read the book when it was first brought out in England with a sense of discovery and excitement.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

On the way home from Riemann's lecture, Weber reported that Gauss was full of praise and excitement.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

The discovery that the comet was likely to collide with Jupiter caused great excitement within the astronomical community and beyond, as astronomers had never before seen two significant Solar System bodies collide.

This part of New York was in the so-called " Burnt Over District ," which earlier in the 19th century had generated much religious excitement, including the beginnings of Mormonism, and social causes, such as abolitionism and support for the Underground Railroad.

Brooks's endless promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much excitement and the failure of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident mere weeks after the album was released.

Just as the excitement was settling down over the Astrodome, the 1966 season found something new to put the domed stadium in the spotlight once again – the field.

Finally, in July 2004, the Medical Journal of Australia reported that Cade's 1949 article, " Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement ", was the number one most cited MJA article.

The re-branding was met with both excitement and disdain.

She disliked living in Sacramento, which lacked the excitement, social life, and mild climate to which she was accustomed in Los Angeles.

: What the Romanticists brought to art was the primacy of values … Values are the source of emotions: a great deal of emotional intensity was projected in the work of the Romanticists and in the reactions of their audiences, as well as a great deal of color, imagination, originality, excitement, and all the other consequences of a value-oriented view of life.

D. W. Griffith had the highest standing amongst American directors in the industry, basically because of the dramatic excitement he got into his films.

More recently, the use of a " rescue instillation " composed of pentosan polysulfate or heparin, sodium hyaluronate, lidocaine and sodium bicarbonate, has generated considerable excitement in the IC / BPS community because it is the first therapeutic intervention that can be used to reduce a flare of symptoms.

The show became popular in Arab countries, with around 18 million viewers, partly because, according to analysts such as University of Pennsylvania professor Marwan Kraidy, it was able to combine the excitement of reality television with a traditional, culturally relevant topic.

The excitement of a brawl with the Mayor's vampires helps him see that Drusilla left him because he had begun to go soft ; he resolves to win her back by torturing her until she likes him again, and tells Buffy where to find Willow and Xander.

It's a terrible, ugly thing, and yet there's a certain response that you get from it, an excitement, because we're all violent people.

According to NASA, it was in part because of the excitement over McAuliffe's presence on Challenger that the accident had such a significant effect on the nation.

In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

Bow remembered: " All this time I was ' running wild ', I guess, in the sense of trying to have a good time ... maybe this was a good thing, because I suppose a lot of that excitement, that joy of life, got onto the screen ".

Steve Taffe, manager of instructional strategy at MECC, a developer and publisher of educational software, explained his excitement about the Classic: " is terrific – both because it's a Mac and because of that low price.

I believe, because I have this strong persuasion of the earnestness and honesty of these men, that it is my duty to call your Lordships ' attention to the first number of this paper, called The United Irishman, which is intended to produce an excitement leading to rebellion, for the purpose of showing you the language held forth, and the object avowed by these men, to whom a large portion of the people of Ireland look up with confidence, and for the purpose of asking her Majesty's Government if this paper has come under their consideration, and if so, whether the Law Officers in Ireland have been consulted, and if it is the intention of the Government to take any notice of it.

The band's debut single " The Drowners " attracted excitement because of its sharp contrast to the dying Madchester scene and the U. S. grunge sound of the time.

It's a big problem in Spain because there is so much emotional excitement, noise all around.

It is very popular with children who celebrate Diwali because of the excitement of bursting firecrackers.

Al-Husseini proposed to the French two possibilities of cooperation: ' either an action in Egypt, Iraq and even Transjordan to calm the anti-French excitement after the events in Syria and because of its domination in North Africa ; or that he would take the initiative of provocations in, in Egypt and in Iraq against Great Britain ', so that the Arabs countries will pay more attention to British policy than to that of France.

Masaniello refused the pension and laid down his dignities, saying that he wished to return to his old life as a fisherman ; but he was entertained by the viceroy and, partly owing to the strain and excitement of the past days, partly because he was made dizzy by his astonishing change of fortune, or perhaps, as it was believed, because he was poisoned, he lost his head and behaved like a frenzied maniac.

An outraged Callahan, warning that Scorpio will kill again because of the excitement that killing gives him, follows Scorpio on his own time.

Ironically, Parisi would push for the less-established band to be signed because " it was the hook that Pangaea, for all the excitement had generated on stage, had lacked.

There was drama in the air because of Greenberg's attempt to break Ruth's record, and the excitement grew even greater when my strikeouts started to add up ," Feller said.

Ironically, because the Texas had already to some extent engaged the Teresa, the Vizcaya, and the Colon, and now the Oquendo more closely and even the trailing Spanish torpedo boats, and had been involved with the excitement of the maneuvers by Brooklyn and Oregon, it received excellent press, far more than it actually deserved, and this to some extent may have exacerbated the negative impression arising from it having to first stop to avoid potential collision and then having its fire masked.

I read in excitement that was more delightful because it showed that I had not lost my understanding of poetry.

All the thinking and intelligent people know this, and will be thankful to be delivered from the thraldom of petty factions by which they are perpetually kept in a state of excitement and unrest because the government and everything connected with it is a thorough sham " ( Martineau's Life of Sir Bartle Frere, ch.

The play is known as " The Bunt ", and many newspapers coined the slogan " Endy Ends It " mainly because of the excitement of the game and the perfection of the drag bunt.