Here and there officers ordered the groups to break up and get to work, but the excitement gripped the upper ranks, too.

A tense excitement gripped me.

An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom.

A strange excitement gripped him.

Tremendous excitement gripped the professor.

The old breathless excitement of the unknown gripped him again; he shivered as he decided not to let them know.

A surging, exultant excitement gripped him.

She was born in the middle of a week when frenzied excitement gripped Atlanta and the air was tense with expectation of disaster.

The excitement that always attonded departure gripped the Golden Bough.

Then his eyes brightened, and I could see that the spirit and the excitement of the adventure were gripping him.