A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

Usage examples of rapture.

Sir Alured was asking with rapture whether the Conservative party would not come in.

However, after an excellent supper, we spent two hours in amorous raptures, and then Morpheus claimed us for his own.

Eeny could not find words enough to express her enthusiastic rapture at such a miracle of babydom, and kissed Master Reginald into an angry fit of crying.

With mouths glued to each other they plunged, curvetted, wriggled, squirmed, till the blissful ecstasy overtook them both simultaneously, when madly they bedewed each other with their love-juice to the accompaniment of the most exquisite quiverings and thrillings, utterly absorbed in rapture!

She wrote little about herself, but went into raptures about the great city, about its reviving ruins, about the women, girls and youths who had come here from all parts of the country to rebuild the city, living in cellars, gun emplacements, blindages and bunkers left after the fighting, and in railway cars, plywood shacks and dug-outs.

Mount Everest, in Wheeling, West Virginia, Citizen Boyne had attained the rapture of total emptying of the mind.

She was smiling up at the man who held her in such rapture, coyly batting her long lashes at him, laughing a little at whatever he said to her.

He upbraided me for refusing to further the plan he had concocted, and which he thought I would accept with rapture if I loved him.

At last she had to leave me, after a day which might be called delightful if happiness consists of calm and mutual joys without the tumultuous raptures of passion.

I threw him into raptures by telling him that on the eve of possessing an immense treasure, it was unnecessary to think of such trifles.

She eagerly longed to see a place in which she fancied charms short only of those which a raptured saint imagines in heaven.

Hence Gnosis, when once obtained, is indefectible, not like the rapture which Plotinus enjoyed but four times during his acquaintance with Porphyry, which in the experience of Theresa never lasted more than half an hour.

Ommony nodded, and handed his rifle to the jungli, who sat up and nursed it in raptures of responsibility.

The new hue, plus a thirdhand stereo system stocked with appropriate pop classics by the Beatles, Jimmy Buffet, and the Junkanoo Joke-sters, drove the female vacationers into raptures of nostalgia and ensured full bookings for the season.

H, crack, coke, speed, ludes, pot, PKD, dust, designer stuff like rapture.