The desperate guilt in his voice clashed with the joyous excitement in his face, "I've never broken my word before!

The winter was over now, and all the Laughing Valley was filled with joyous excitement.

This sort of joyous excitement should not be confused with real terror which can be initiated in the same circumstances.

Presently Rowena returned, all ablush with joyous excitement, and begged for a rereading of the letter.

Half the night he could not sleep for the joyous excitement welling up inside him.

The old man seemed torn between joyous excitement and stark terror and Bandar thought the mix appropriate to the situation.

He called out to it in joyous excitement.

Hitler's first joyous excitement had given way to fear.

Captain Jenkins led the first squadron, his eyes literally dancing with joyous excitement.

Ratha's curiosity was suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of joyous excitement.