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    excitable


    1. Excitable and given to theatric antics, the officer was sure that this recruit had been a bard in his previous life


    2. That is, on the part of the excitable Maro


    3. Used extensively in Europe for stress it can be very helpful in calming your horse before events and when your horse is generally excitable


    4. I’m more impulsive and excitable, and her instincts and rationality have prevented me from doing stupid stuff several times


    5. I see their fists in the air, like excitable Dauntless, but without the Dauntless joy


    6. Copious tears of my excitable young years


    7. She threw herself passionately all over him as though their marriage was ready to continue in the vein it had started more than twenty years earlier, with excitable affection and joyful expectation


    8. They weren’t as handsome as the Arabs, but less excitable and easier to live with


    9. The following Tuesday morning, Monique and Susie found an excitable, chain-smoking Mrs Sorens at home


    10. Before their engagement both he and his bride, a homely and somewhat excitable spinster several years his senior, had agreed that at their time of life they did not want children

    11. “O God! What a woman! Very-very talkative excitable, a long- winded woman,” I reflected


    12. Once they dropped off the excitable girl at her home they returned to the limo where Jason held the door for her to get in


    13. “Open your hand deary!” Mazfanny said in her overly excitable manner


    14. As the days grew colder Max often came by in the afternoon to amuse me (and himself) with short, excitable games of blind-the-traitor, dice, cards, and a book, where he would write down everything I could tell him about the niceties of Gralde tavern-life


    15. "Later I met another guy, a weedy intellectual, a highly excitable youth, so enthusiastic about science that no sexual thought had a chance of entering his mind


    16. He'd tried to get his sister, a far more excitable person, to try it herself, but she thought the notion silly


    17. Even though the excitable tailor was annoying as hell, Lars had to admit Hymie was creating one damn fine suit


    18. fears or an excitable mind playing tricks


    19. Their excitable speech of whistles and hoots echoed around the


    20. She was certainly excitable

    21. Yes; a man, a quartermaster, an able seaman that would know how to jump to an order and was not an excitable fool


    22. In my time at sea there was no lack of men in British ships who could jump to an order and were not excitable fools


    23. I do not say that these horrible stories may not have a use of some kind; but there is a danger that the nerves of our guardians may be rendered too excitable and effeminate by them


    24. An excitable conchologist would surely have fainted dead away before other, more numerous glass cases in which were classified specimens from the mollusk branch


    25. " There was a knot of three men and two women standing at a corner, and one of the women was crying on her dirty shawl, and the other comforted her by saying, as she pulled her own shawl over her shoulders, "Jaggers is for him, 'Melia, and what more could you have?" There was a red-eyed little Jew who came into the Close while I was loitering there, in company with a second little Jew whom he sent upon an errand; and while the messenger was gone, I remarked this Jew, who was of a highly excitable temperament, performing a jig of anxiety under a lamp-post and accompanying himself, in a kind of frenzy, with the words, "O Jaggerth, Jaggerth, Jaggerth! all otherth ith Cag-Maggerth, give me Jaggerth!" These testimonies to the popularity of my guardian made a deep impression on me, and I admired and wondered more than ever


    26. No one remained now but the excitable Jew, who had already raised the skirts of Mr


    27. The arrival of the worldrenowned headsman was greeted by a roar of acclamation from the huge concourse, the viceregal ladies waving their handkerchiefs in their excitement while the even more excitable foreign delegates cheered vociferously in a medley of cries, hoch, banzai, eljen, zivio, chinchin, polla kronia, hiphip, vive, Allah , amid which the ringing evviva of the delegate of the land of song (a high double F recalling those piercingly lovely notes with which the


    28. Soames was a tall, spare man, of a nervous and excitable temperament


    29. He shrugged his shoulders in ungracious acquiescence, while our visitor in hurried words and with much excitable gesticulation poured forth his story


    30. As to his character, he was reliable on duty, but a wild, desperate fellow off the deck of his ship, hot-headed, excitable, but loyal, honest, and kind-hearted

    31. Fournaye, who is of Creole origin, is of an extremely excitable nature, and has suffered in the past from attacks of jealousy which have amounted to frenzy


    32. Rachel— who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament—had a sharp touch of brain-fever, and goes about the house now—or did until yesterday—like a black-eyed shadow of her former self


    33. “Arthur is not an excitable man


    34. Tess's excitable heart beat against his by way of reply; and there they stood upon the red-brick floor of the entry, the sun slanting in by the window upon his back, as he held her tightly to his breast; upon her inclining face, upon the blue veins of her temple, upon her naked arm, and her neck, and into the depths of her hair


    35. His parents had been more distracted than usual, more excitable, more anxious


    36. A young uniformed cop with a florid face and an excitable manner was headed toward me


    37. The newspapers became excitable about the possibility of a winter cold enough for frost fairs, although he had his doubts


    38. Lucy is more excitable than ever, but is otherwise well


    39. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people


    40. He was nervous and excitable

    41. His was a lean excitable face with little bright eyes as evil as a frantic child’s eyes


    42. "Immediately after the Titanic struck the iceberg," said one of the survivors, "the officers were all over the ship reassuring the passengers and calming the more excitable


    43. It was quite against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily controlled when she has made up her mind on a point


    44. As to his character, he was reliable on duty, but a wild, desperate fellow off the deck of his ship—hot-headed, excitable, but loyal, honest, and kind-hearted


    45. The second member of the party to land was a tall young man in white ducks, while directly behind came another elderly man with a very high forehead and a fussy, excitable manner


    46. Though a constant one, it is not commonly noticed, and, in the case of an excitable imagination like Cellini's, it would be basis enough for superstition


    47. The only people who were excited were bawling drunkards and excitable individuals of the same sort as the gesticulatory cabinet-maker


    48. Finding him at home at last, after many endeavours, the lawyer was excessively surprised to discover that Velchaninoff was as callous and cool as to the result of his (the lawyer's) labours, as he had before been ardent and excitable


    49. This is how the things he saw during these three months impressed Nekhludoff: From among the people who were free, those were chosen, by means of trials and the administration, who were the most nervous, the most hot tempered, the most excitable, the most gifted, and the strongest, but the least careful and cunning


    50. Whenever he wished to get into communication with his headquarters he unmercifully thumped the field telephone and in an excitable voice called out: "'Ullo, mon capitaine," five or six times in half as many seconds


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    Synonyms for "excitable"

    excitable irritable fiery fretful irascible peevish petulant waspish

    "excitable" definitions

    easily excited


    capable of responding to stimuli