Examples of rapture

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I was in raptures at the sight of it, as of something heavenly, - such riches, such abundance, such variety, and yet such affinity!
The artist often registers rapture by depicting such characters with their teeth disclosed.
He craves a blessing on the tree, which he stands and admires with rapture.
Eventually, she spreads them on her bed, strips herself naked, and lies down on them in sensual rapture.
Not all lovers, after all, have the same object of desire or lose their way in rhapsodic rapture.
They repelled him and defied him: there was no passion in them, no rapture.
Because the age of the church was not included in the prophetic scheme, the time of the rapture is not predictable.
From this description it is clear that the experience of mystic rapture is characterized by two features.
Appropriately enough, then, the last few days before the book's appearance were touched with the same rapture that had helped to prompt its creation.
Conversely, the reader is never in doubt of the seriousness of this rapture.
In forms of rapture we may discern tangible shapes among the "dim fluctuant forces" mediating our modern lives.
Political and philosophical rapture are, moreover, especially dangerous when mixed together.
The hysteria of the maids' scene is thereby transformed into rapture.
The displays of teeth may indicate sensuality and rapture as well as fury.
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