Carried away

Usage examples of rapturous.

What while Love breathed in sighs and silences Through two blent souls one rapturous undersong.

But they were also smiling and blithesome, and, when they tried to describe to me their rapturous reunion, they were quite rapturously and absurdly inarticulate.

It is certain, that, in every religion, however sublime the verbal definition which it gives of its divinity, many of the votaries, perhaps the greatest number, will still seek the divine favour, not by virtue and good morals, which alone can be acceptable to a perfect being, but either by frivolous observances, by intemperate zeal, by rapturous extasies, or by the belief of mysterious and absurd opinions.

I am the only person in this rapturous assembly who is at once a Nietzschean and a cabalist.

Ukko so that he could make his right arm upfling and hide his eyes and his soul from such rapturous glory.

O Muse, that in all sorrows and all joys, Rapturous bliss and suffering divine, Dwellest with equal fervour, in the calm Of thy serene philosophy, albeit Thy gentle nature is of joy alone, And loves the pipings of the happy fields, Better than all the great parade and pomp Which forms the train of heroes and of kings, And sows, too frequently, the tragic seeds That choke with sobs thy singing,--turn away Thy lustrous eyes back to the oath-bound man!

The balmy air of spring whispers through the sweet grass, The stars sparkle, the whippoorwill calls, But thou grievest, while my soul lies rapturous In the blest Nirvana of eternal light!

Toiled both on their compound discriminant scheme Dividing the light on the half-shadowed shore Induction, experiment,, rapturous dream That night we slept no more That night we slept no more Shadow of a figure Projected on a plane Two is one, the one that was Different and the same Kyzyl escorted the boy to the top of the armillary sphere.

Collins pointed out, with a rapturous air, the fine proportion and finished ornaments, they followed the servants through an antichamber, to the room where Lady Catherine, her daughter, and Mrs.

Greater ones, verily, have there been, and higher-born ones, than those whom the people call saviours, those rapturous blusterers!

I stayed in the cheapest, where one electric bulb hung from a string in the middle of the room, where the sheets were like cheesecloth, and where the mattresses -- when they were revealed as they usually were after a night's restless sleep -- were like maps of strange worlds, the continents being defined by unpleasing stains, doubtless traceable to the incontinent dreams of travelling salesmen, or the rapturous deflowerings of brides from the backwoods.

It was certainly a moving and rapturous experience that the two of them should emerge from this competition hand in hand, as the crowned winners.

It may also explain some other things, as, for instance, the zelotic heat of the one and the calm assurance of the other party, and why the world greets one party with rapturous applause, and entertains towards the other an irreconcileable prejudice.

It had nothing to do with the rapturous start to a love affair–.

It had nothing to do with the rapturous start to a love affair---those days and weeks before the first tiny tear-clouds appear on the horizon.