come to life vs exhilarate

come to life

verb
  • to start to become energetic. 

  • to bring back to life; revitalize, revive, resurrect 

  • to appear as if alive 

  • to become alive; to be brought into existence 

exhilarate

verb
  • To excite, to thrill. 

  • To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy. 

How often have the words come to life and exhilarate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )