" The Toad's misery turned into rapture as he eagerly scrambled up into the cab of the engine.
" and the Mole to his surprise and rapture found himself actually seated in the stern of a real boat.
The circumstances of the morning had led Catherine's feelings through the varieties of suspense, security, and disappointment; but they were now safely lodged in perfect bliss; and with spirits elated to rapture, with Henry at her heart, and Northanger Abbey on her lips, she hurried home to write her letter.
Difficult not to, here; the marvellous night stole in through all one's chinks, and brought in with it, whether one wanted them or not, enormous feelings—feelings one couldn't manage, great things about death and time and waste; glorious and devastating things, magnificent and bleak, at once rapture and terror and immense, heart-cleaving longing.
She, so to speak, at once flung off all her garments and dived straight into glory, unhesitatingly, with a cry of rapture.
Anne gave herself up to a silent rapture over the shore road and Marilla guided the sorrel abstractedly while she pondered deeply.
" With a sigh of rapture she relapsed into silence.
Valancy found herself shivering with the rapture of her first kiss.
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendour of moonshine, with the wind blowing down on them out of the pine woods.
A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen
They have been planning it out on the ship: mother's rapture, father's shout of joy, Nana's leap through the air to embrace them first, when what they ought to be prepared for is a good hiding.
Capricorn can be a touch like Virgo, defensive, workaholic and not inclined to disappear into swoons of rapture about a blissful mating.
Capricorn can be a touch like Virgo, defensive, workaholic and not inclined to disappear into swoons of rapture about a blissful mating.
What rapture celestial is mine!
There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
" There was on his face an expression of solemn and holy rapture, as if he were revealing to me the mysteries of his religion.
His cup was full, and he hugged her to his heart with rapture, saying: "How wonderful it all seems, and how beautiful!
Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
, Hark, where my blossomed pear--tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatterss on the clover , Blossoms and dewdrops--at the bent spray's edge-- -- That's the wise thrush :he sings each song twice over ,, Lest you should think he never could recapture , The first fine careless rapture!
For some time she was too enchanted to speak, and Prince Firouz Schah took advantage of her silence to explain to her all that had occurred, his despair at watching her disappear before his very eyes, the oath he had sworn to follow her over the world, and his rapture at finally discovering her in the palace at Cashmere.
