What is "raptures"

Usage examples of "raptures".

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

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.

True that in such a case one does not enjoy the ecstatic raptures of love, but one finds a compensation in the complete control obtained over the woman.

At that moment, giving way suddenly to the violence of her feelings, and tired of her assumed dissimulation, she warmly locks me in her arms at the very instant of the voluptuous crisis, smothers me with kisses, shares my raptures, and love blends our souls in the most ecstatic enjoyment.

Sooth to say, I fell at her feet, and lovingly pressing her knees I kissed them repeatedly with raptures of gratitude.

Elizabeth saw much to be pleased with, though she could not be in such raptures as Mr.

Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation.

How sweet is the nectar of the tears shed by love, when that nectar is relished amidst the raptures of mutual ardour!

What delicious raptures succeed each other until the sweetest fatigue made us give way to the soothing influence of Morpheus!

During the last night that I spent with both of them, the sisters repeated over and over, in the midst of the raptures of love, that they never would see me again.

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.

Come to me with thy lustrous eye, Azure-melting westerly, The raptures of thy face unfold, And welcome in thy robes of gold!