What is "enraptured"

Usage examples of "enraptured".

The fair full earth, the enraptured skies, She images in constant play: Night and the stars are in her eyes, But her sweet face is beaming day, A bounteous interblush of flowers: A dewy brilliance in a dale of bowers.

Sir Zheng was in great form, holding forth to the White Nun and the enraptured Green Girl in a voice that could be heard all over the restaurant.

As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea how they might be readily turned into cash and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land and shingle palaces in the wilderness.

The princess has fixed your enraptured gaze upon her lovely form, by throwing or rather shooting roses at you.

The poor shepherd-boy awoke, and was enraptured with what he supposed had been a wild dream.

I may no longer hear this voice, which is forever sounding in my enraptured ears, no longer see those fearful but wondrous eyes.

The wondrous growth of her hair enraptured the faithful, and all mankind declared that this holy image cut from a pear-tree, was the Virgin Mary, who with open eyes watched over Breslau, and whose hair grew in honor of the new Bishop Schafgotch--he was now almost adored.

My height and strength so enraptured the emissaries of the king, that in the middle of the service before the altar, as I was reading mass, they tore me away without regarding the prayers and outcries of my flock.

Voltaire returned once more to his distinguished guests, and enraptured them again by his witty slanders and brilliant conversation.

Lukien swiveled in his saddle, suddenly enraptured by his surroundings.

The Inhumans listened to him, enraptured, standing around him in a semicircle as he imparted his hard-won wisdom.

The scene had enraptured him, the red glow of charcoal braziers burning along the lake side, chestnut roasting, musicians playing violins and mandolins.

Once he stood enraptured at the sight of a white Colonial-style mansion from which a white-clad girl had floated down the steps, a rose basket on her arm, a piccaninny in attendance.

First of the enraptured audience to rise in acclaim was the undemonstrative host, Sir Jocelyn.

Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her?