See Also: AGITATION, ENERGY, ENTHUSIASM

1. The blood burning in all his veins, like fire in all the branches and twigs of him —D. H. Lawrence
2. The blood surged through me like a sea —R. Wright Campbell
3. Drunk on your own high spirits, like a salesman at a convention —Dorothea Straus
4. Excited and happy as a bride-to-be —Gloria Norris See Also: HAPPINESS
5. Excited as a cop making his first pinch —H. C. Witwer
6. Excited as a puppy at a picnic —Nicholas Proffitt
7. Excited as a starlet, on the arm of an elderly editor —Philip Roth
8. Excited as schoolchildren on their way to a treat —Frank Tuohy
9. Excited … like a kid with his first dish of ice-cream —Louis Bromfield
10. Excitement caused his heart to thud all over his breast like some crazy and fateful drum —Frank Swinnerton

    See Also: HEARTBEAT

11. Excitement … had grown to become an exhausting presence within him, like the constant company of a sleepless troop of revelers —Joseph Whitehill
12. Excitement rose like a hot dry wind —Marge Piercy
13. Exhausting and exhilarating … it’s [tracking Woody Allen’s career] like mountain climbing —Vincent Canby, New York Times, February 9, 1986
14. Exhilarating like a swim in a rough ocean —Mary Gordon
15. Exhilarating as love —Honore de Balzac
16. Exhilarating … very much like the effects of a strong dose of caffeine —Georges Simenon
17. Felt exhilarated as a young man at a romantic assignation —Louis Auchincloss
18. (Music that) fired her blood like wine —Katherine Mansfield
19. (The hate excited her … she was) fired up like a furnace in a blizzard night —Harold Adams
20. Flares up like a match —Sholem Aleichem
21. Flushed and voluble, like football fans on their way back from a match —Aharon Megged
22. Has about as much suspense as a loaf of bread being spread through a slicer —Scott Simon, reporting on a basketball game, “All Things Considered,” WNYC, January 31, 1987
23. Her excitement strummed like wire —Marge Piercy
24. Her excitement was deep down like a desert river under the sands —Oliver La Farge
25. Life at “Nightline” [Ted Koppel television program] is like being in a popper of popcorn news —Marshal Frady, June, 1987
26. Responding like an overheated spaniel —Clancy Sigal
27. Stirring as march music —Paige Mitchell
28. Thrilled his sleepless nerves like liquor or women on a Saturday night —John Dos Passos
29. Titillated … like naked flesh —Paul Theroux
30. Warmed by what he’d read as if it had been draughts of rum —John Cheever