According to a November 1906 interview with the Penny Illustrated Paper Levitt balanced "the fearful excitement of automobile racing by quietly going fishing, and described trout fishing as her favourite sport.

It came to her very sharply, like an overwhelming odour, the atmosphere she had longed to escape from when she was young, the fearful excitement of her childhood when her father would periodically erupt on to his adoring family, loaded with presents and suggestions for marvellous outings.

She put a hand to her breast, feeling the fearful excitement of this moment.

Thrillers may be defined by the primary mood that they elicit: fearful excitement.

They both screamed with the fearful excitement.

Nirgal watched her from above with fearful excitement, then a moment of terror as she dove right past the edge of Santo-rini's cliff; from his vantage point it had looked like she was going to hit.

The pounding sparks flew faster and heavier from the hammer, more lightning licks arced down to meet them from the sky, and the whole earth was beginning to tremble in something very like fearful excitement.

As to the events of the next three days I know only what I have been told, for practically during all that time I was off my head from loss of blood, complicated with fever brought on by the fearful excitement and exertion I had undergone.

She was exhilarated by the fearful excitement she had caused.

When he had gone fifty paces, he saw what looked like a bundle of old clothes lying in a clumpof sage, and ran toward it, feeling a kind of wild, fearful excitement that he could not understand.