Smith was pacing the room now in tense excitement.

And-yes, the air of defeat and frustration was replaced by tense excitement.

He came back to the phone, and his tense excitement was gone.

They were already drenched and the tense, flicker-eyed excitement of an hour ago was fading fast.

On Thursday Father returned home, in a state of tense excitement.

Here all by this time was tense excitement, the dramatic, ungoverned excitement of children.

It wasn't so much Krager, he thought as the tense excitement built in him.

A tense excitement had been building in him since they had left the ships.

An air of tense excitement filled the hut.

Instead the mood had become one of tense excitement, of breathless suspense.