Crossword-Solution: EXTASE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Robert Filcher relieved his feelings by indulging in a ballet of action, or ~pas d'extase~; in which poetry of motion he declared his joy at the last valuable addition to Brazenface, and his own perquisites.

Toujours debout, les bras noués pour se serrer l’un à l’autre, ils restaient là muets, dans l’extase d’un baiser qui ne finissait plus.

This, you may be sure, was more applauded than all the rest; we were en extase, and having properly expressed our gratitude, were soon after suffered to decamp.

How will you explain these hauts faits de l'extase religieuse? I cannot imagine! For my part, I think of the self-mutilations and tortures of Dervishes and Fakirs, and wonder if we have not here something analogous.' The article in the Bulgarian serial is called 'The Nistinares.' The word is not Bulgarian; possibly it is Romaic.

The "Poème de l'extase," with its oceanic tides of voluptuously entangled bodies, is a sort of Tannhäuser "Bacchanale" modernized, enlarged, and intensely sharpened.