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The term exuberant in literature is often employed to convey a sense of boundless energy and vivid life that permeates both character and setting. Authors use it to describe everything from the physical vitality of bygone days, as noted in [1] and [2], to the intense, overflowing emotions characterizing human relationships, as seen in [3] and [4]. In some works, exuberant illustrates not just a spirited feeling or mood—like the radiant joy of youth in [5] and [6]—but also the fertile and thriving nature of environments, evoking images of landscapes brimming with life as in [7] and [8]. Overall, the word serves as a versatile descriptor, enriching literary language by encapsulating an unrestrained, almost palpable vivacity.
  1. and I feel once more the formidable appetite, the herculean strength of jaw, the exuberant life and spirits of those far-off days.
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  2. The secret of this exuberant flow is of course the great supply below, crowding to get out.
    — from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein
  3. His feelings for her were most exuberant.
    — from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
  4. Carrie began to feel that there was something exuberant and unnatural in his manner.
    — from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser
  5. The exuberant enthusiasm of youth was couched in poetic imagery which has from time immemorial been employed in panegyrics of great poets.
    — from Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays by Lee, Sidney, Sir
  6. At such times the more exuberant among them called out in an excited manner on our emergence round some corner of expectancy, “ Here they come!”
    — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  7. There appears to be no such thing as silence or repose; everywhere is a continual stir, the gushing overflow of life in this exuberant region.
    — from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) by Henri Mouhot
  8. It is entirely to this exuberant vegetation that coal owes its origin.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

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