And yet, mingled with the distaste, there was a certain elation.

But the fact that she had refused him carried with it a certain elation.

Of late things are much brighter and one can feel a certain elation in the air.

I left her with tears in her eyes and went back up the stairs, feeling a certain elation.

The music, and the lights, and the subdued gayety of the scene about him, filled him with a certain elation.

He knew that he had a most formidable antagonist, but he felt a certain elation in matching himself against one so strong.

He mounted his roan horse, called Rhubarb, with a certain elation of being, which he tried to hide from everyone but himself.

"Of late," he writes, "things are much brighter and one can feel a certain elation in the air.