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  • I'd never seen him so enraptured.†   (source)
  • As he talked, the fidgety students settled into their folding chairs and became enraptured by the legendary, world-traveled man who told us how proud he was of his West Virginia roots, and how we, too, should be proud of those roots, roots we all shared; and how, regardless of where we came from, each and every one of us could and should follow our dreams, just as he had followed his.†   (source)
  • By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people.†   (source)
  • Trudy had stopped struggling and lay enraptured, murmuring something like "no, no, not now," watching Edgar as he came running out of the barn pushing another batch of records.†   (source)
  • Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is), but even when the country was enraptured by his rise, most Middletonians viewed him suspiciously.†   (source)
  • "Jus' thought she'd like ter see 'em," shrugged Hagrid, still gazing, enraptured, at the dragons.†   (source)
  • Drogo will be enraptured.†   (source)
  • She is enraptured, as though in a pearly light.†   (source)
  • Dart, tense and enraptured, saw the tip of her tongue lick traces of taste from her lips.†   (source)
  • Juliet was sprawled on the cot, enraptured by a concrete wall.†   (source)
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  • Did she figure they would be enraptured by her performance?†   (source)
  • "Ruth May, who'd been up out of bed for a few days and seemed to be on the mend, was so enraptured with him she sat with her head practically leaning up against his worn-out trousers.†   (source)
  • She was young and enraptured, her joy infectious, especially to Dr. Cigrand, the dentist, who saw so little joy from day to day as he reduced grown men of proven courage to tears.†   (source)
  • We told our story to enraptured groups and struck a chord.†   (source)
  • Adel listened, fascinated, enraptured.†   (source)
  • Dr. Abaddon, apparently enraptured by the sight of the squid, seemed unable to pull his eyes away from the glass.†   (source)
  • Flatnose was staring into space, enraptured, as if a pirate ship with all sails set were truly cruising in through one of the church windows.†   (source)
  • Clary had been so enraptured by the books and distracted by Hodge that she hadn't seen Alec sprawled in an overstuffed red armchair by the empty fireplace.†   (source)
  • His less savage critics thought he was just an aristocrat enraptured by the delights of the Poetic Festival while the nation bled to death in an endless civil war.†   (source)
  • Enraptured!†   (source)
  • Although we were both enraptured, neither Bailey nor I was unaware of her nervousness.†   (source)
  • BENEATHA listens, enraptured, her 60 eyes far away—"back to the past."†   (source)
  • Almost overnight the Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was in full flower, and Captain Black was enraptured to discover himself spearheading it.†   (source)
  • If he went on the march, Sabina would gaze down on him enraptured; she would understand that he had remained faithful to her.†   (source)
  • Others came clawing out of their pew, frantic, enraptured, as if the bench had suddenly grown too hot to sit on, and maybe it had.†   (source)
  • Although 21-21 is a genius with the reading skills of a college freshman, a healer with miraculous powers, and literally the hope of the world, she is soon enraptured by Nina, wants to be Nina, as totally cool as Nina, and unconsciously she begins imitating Nina's gestures and manner of speaking.†   (source)
  • She saw-with a single artery beating under the skin of his throat, with a froth of pink in the corner of his mouththe look of an enraptured dedication which was almost a smile, and she knew that she was witnessing Francisco d'Anconia's greatest achievement.†   (source)
  • In conversation mysterious and deep, in the crackling, hissing, seemingly inconsequential sounds of the foam, waves, and wind, the stars were talking to the enraptured sea, and, as with many of its greatest secrets, nature entrusted knowledge of this to whoever would not be believed or who could not speak.†   (source)
  • Among those enraptured with Miss Hale is a future Supreme Court justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., now a twenty-four-year-old Union officer.†   (source)
  • For a moment the spy was silent, enraptured, then he bowed suddenly from the waist, widely, formally, gracefully, plucking the floppy hat from the balding head and actually sweeping the ground with it, dandy, ridiculous, something off a stage somewhere designed for a king.†   (source)
  • This was not a task with which I was enraptured, but as I went about the Barrens I had kept a casual eye open for scats.†   (source)
  • How did that square with the fact that on each of these succeeding days when I had seen Sophie and Nathan together the word "enraptured" would have seemed to be a vapid understatement for the nature of their relationship?†   (source)
  • W. enraptured forever" and things of that kind.†   (source)
  • Louie was so enraptured that he wouldn't let anyone else hold her, and did all the diapering himself.†   (source)
  • The idea of spreading mercy, indiscriminately, or, to be more correct, spreading it on someone I really didn't care about, enraptured me.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza was so enraptured by the practical evidence of his dreams that he used time he did not have to write a Lovers' Companion that was more poetic and extensive than the one sold in doorways for twenty centavos and that half the city knew by heart.†   (source)
  • Like everyone in that part of the world, she had been enraptured by a young, thin man from Mount Olive, Alabama, who sang with a twisted spine and a tortured spirit, and she would whirl the dial, over and over, searching for his words.†   (source)
  • He saw her body standing before him, straight and tense, her head thrown back, her arms at her sides, palms out, as she stood for many days; but now her body was alive, so still that it seemed to tremble, saying what he had wanted to hear: a proud, reverent, enraptured surrender to a vision of her own, the right moment, the moment before the figure would sway and break, the moment touched by the reflection of what she saw.†   (source)
  • For a while he let this lively and yet orderly world go through its evolutions before my enraptured eyes in play and strife, making treaties and fighting battles, wooing, marrying and multiplying.†   (source)
  • Enraptured at this evidence of her affection, he grabbed up her fan and plied it so enthusiastically her hair began to blow about untidily.†   (source)
  • But Scarlett hardly heard a word he said, so enraptured was she at being in the same room with Ashley again.†   (source)
  • The immortals, living their life in timeless space, enraptured, re-fashioned and immersed in a crystalline eternity like ether, and the cool starry brightness and radiant serenity of this world outside the earth—whence was all this so intimately known?†   (source)
  • I danced without stop and with anyone who came in my way, with quite young girls, with women in their earlier or their later prime, and with those who had sadly passed them both; and with them all I was enraptured—laughing, happy, radiant.†   (source)
  • All the women of this fevered night, all that I had danced with, all whom I had kindled or who had kindled me, all whom I had courted, all who had clung to me with longing, all whom I had followed with enraptured eyes were melted together and had become one, the one whom I held in my arms.†   (source)
  • Even in recent days I had marveled at and loved and mocked and envied this gleam and this smile in my friend, Pablo, when he hung over his saxophone in the blissful intoxication of playing in the orchestra, or when, enraptured and ecstatic, he looked over to the conductor, the drum, or the man with the banjo.†   (source)
  • Isabelle's face was a study in enraptured curiosity.†   (source)
  • "How do you fancy your son in this!" he said, enraptured, showing her the suit.†   (source)
  • And while you were still so enraptured with Miss X?†   (source)
  • Do you know that since your daughter came out everyone has been enraptured by her?†   (source)
  • Pitt Crawley was amazed and enraptured with her speech.†   (source)
  • Denisov was looking at her with enraptured eyes.†   (source)
  • Ned and Conseil were there, enraptured with the "pleasure trip" getting under way.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit was enraptured by these attentions.†   (source)
  • Natasha knew for certain that he was enraptured by her.†   (source)
  • Mescal was enraptured at the scene.†   (source)
  • But after Madeline's first swift, all-embracing flash of enraptured eyes, thought of beauty passed away.†   (source)
  • Philip was enraptured.†   (source)
  • It was an enraptured and amazed gaze.†   (source)
  • Diana was ENRAPTURED when she heard it.†   (source)
  • On inquiring what that proviso meant, I found that it meant that I proposed to get possession of her property if she had any, or to undertake her support for life if she had not; that I desired her continual companionship, counsel and conversation to the end of my days, and would bind myself under penalties to be always enraptured by them; and, above all, that I would turn my back on all other women for ever for her sake.†   (source)
  • The lights and shades in the Sagi that first night had moved him to enthusiastic watchfulness, but here they were so weird and beautiful that he was enraptured.†   (source)
  • "I do so love him when he goes up in the air like that!" cried Mme. Verdurin, the moment that he had finished, enraptured that the table-talk should have proved so entertaining on the very night that Forcheville was dining with them for the first time.†   (source)
  • This amazed and enraptured Tess, whose slight experiences had been so infelicitous till now; and in her reaction from indignation against the male sex she swerved to excess of honour for Clare.†   (source)
  • And so excited and flattered and enraptured was he that he could scarcely arrange his jumbled thoughts and emotions in any seemly way.†   (source)
  • Mistress Mary felt solemnly enraptured.†   (source)
  • The adobe houses of the Mexicans pleased her, and, then the train got out into Indian country, where pueblos appeared near the track and Indians with their bright colors and shaggy wild mustangs—then she was enraptured.†   (source)
  • And she was so un-hysterical and natural and childish that she brought him to his senses and he began to laugh at himself and a few minutes afterward she was sitting on her stool again telling him not what she imagined the secret garden to be like but what it really was, and Colin's aches and tiredness were forgotten and he was listening enraptured.†   (source)
  • But at a given moment, without being able to distinguish any clear outline, or to give a name to what was pleasing him, suddenly enraptured, he had tried to collect, to treasure in his memory the phrase or harmony—he knew not which—that had just been played, and had opened and expanded his soul, just as the fragrance of certain roses, wafted upon the moist air of evening, has the power of dilating our nostrils.†   (source)
  • I just sat in enraptured silence.†   (source)
  • I can see you, my Daphnis, with the light of young love in your eyes, tender, enraptured, and ardent; while Chloe in your arms, so young and soft and fresh, vowing she would ne'er consent, consented.†   (source)
  • …the flower-show, or merely of not being in time for tea, with muffins and toast, at the Rue Royale tea-rooms, where she believed that regular attendance was indispensable, and set the seal upon a woman's certificate of 'smartness,' Swann, enraptured, as all of us are, at times, by the natural behaviour of a child, or by the likeness of a portrait, which appears to be on the point of speaking, would feel so distinctly the soul of his mistress rising to fill the outlines of her face…†   (source)
  • Fain would I pause to dwell upon the world of charms that burst upon the enraptured gaze of my hero, as he entered the state parlor of Van Tassel's mansion.†   (source)
  • [51] And then, I met a pretty girl of my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called Floreal, and who is delighted, enraptured, as happy as the angels, because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her!†   (source)
  • The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.†   (source)
  • The young girl raised sweet, enraptured eyes to him from time to time, and their hair mingled in a ray of spring sunshine.†   (source)
  • "Good," he said; and M. Bertuccio left enraptured, so great, so powerful, and real was the influence exercised by this man over all who surrounded him.†   (source)
  • 'No, indeed,' said I. In short, my aunt, seeing how enraptured I was with the premises, took them for a month, with leave to remain for twelve months when that time was out.†   (source)
  • At the next house they visited, they were in great glory; for, there, resided the six children who were so enraptured with the public actions of the phenomenon, and who, being called down from the nursery to be treated with a private view of that young lady, proceeded to poke their fingers into her eyes, and tread upon her toes, and show her many other little attentions peculiar to their time of life.†   (source)
  • After passing the well of the companionway that led to the platform, I saw a cabin 2 meters long in which Conseil and Ned Land, enraptured with their meal, were busy devouring it to the last crumb.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth-Jane was fond of music; she could not help pausing to listen; and the longer she listened the more she was enraptured.†   (source)
  • They look at the great stones with which the well is curbed, ask its depth, smile at the primitive mode of drawing the purling treasure, and waste some pity on the ragged wretch who presides over it; then, facing about, they are enraptured with the mounts Moriah and Zion, both of which slope towards them from the north, one terminating in Ophel, the other in what used to be the site of the city of David.†   (source)
  • Miss Flite, quite enraptured by her success, makes the best of her way to court, having great fears that otherwise her friend the Chancellor may be uneasy about her or may give the judgment she has so long expected in her absence, and observing "which you know, my dear physician, and general, after so many years, would be too absurdly unfortunate!"†   (source)
  • Mr Blandois being enraptured, they walked through other garrets and passages, and came down the staircase again.†   (source)
  • So we parted; I riding all the way to London with the farewell touch of Dora's hand still light on mine, recalling every incident and word ten thousand times; lying down in my own bed at last, as enraptured a young noodle as ever was carried out of his five wits by love.†   (source)
  • He recalled the days when he had fled from her, and the passion which had once inflamed him—the days when he had driven her in his curricle: when she had knit the green purse for him: when he had sate enraptured gazing at her white arms and bright eyes.†   (source)
  • " "Is it possible the king could have condescended so far as to express himself so favorably of me?" asked the enraptured Villefort.†   (source)
  • My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country.†   (source)
  • 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…†   (source)
  • We may like bouillotte, delight in whist, be enraptured with boston, and yet grow tired of them all; but we always come back to ecarte—it is not only a game, it is a hors-d'oeuvre!†   (source)
  • Sometimes it is towards the ocean—smiling with countless dimples, speckled with white sails, with a hundred bathing-machines kissing the skirt of his blue garment—that the Londoner looks enraptured: sometimes, on the contrary, a lover of human nature rather than of prospects of any kind, it is towards the bow windows that he turns, and that swarm of human life which they exhibit.†   (source)
  • Though not altogether enraptured at the sight of these visitors, Clennam lost no time in opening the counting-house door, and extricating them from the workshop; a rescue which was rendered the more necessary by Mr F.'s Aunt already stumbling over some impediment, and menacing steam power as an Institution with a stony reticule she carried.†   (source)
  • I also noticed some wrasse known as the tapiro, three decimeters long, bony fish with transparent scales whose bluish gray color is mixed with red spots; they're enthusiastic eaters of marine vegetables, which gives them an exquisite flavor; hence these tapiro were much in demand by the epicures of ancient Rome, and their entrails were dressed with brains of peacock, tongue of flamingo, and testes of moray to make that divine platter that so enraptured the Roman emperor Vitellius.†   (source)
  • Anna Pavlovna's circle on the contrary was enraptured by this enthusiasm and spoke of it as Plutarch speaks of the deeds of the ancients.†   (source)
  • Guided by his skillful hands, the Nautilus passed by all these different masses of ice, which are classified by size and shape with a precision that enraptured Conseil: "icebergs," or mountains; "ice fields," or smooth, limitless tracts; "drift ice," or floating floes; "packs," or broken tracts, called "patches" when they're circular and "streams" when they form long strips.†   (source)
  • Not only in the soul of the frightened yet happy and enraptured Natasha, but in the whole house, there was a feeling of awe at something important that was bound to happen.†   (source)
  • He rode across one of the swaying pontoon bridges to the farther side, turned sharply to the left, and galloped in the direction of Kovno, preceded by enraptured, mounted chasseurs of the Guard who, breathless with delight, galloped ahead to clear a path for him through the troops.†   (source)
  • There they are, those false images that agitated, enraptured, and tormented me," said he to himself, passing in review the principal pictures of the magic lantern of life and regarding them now in the cold white daylight of his clear perception of death.†   (source)
  • Almost smiling, he gazed straight into her eyes with such an enraptured caressing look that it seemed strange to be so near him, to look at him like that, to be so sure he admired her, and not to be acquainted with him.†   (source)
  • When he heard these words and saw the expression of firm resolution in the Emperor's eyes, Michaud—quoique etranger, russe de coeur et d'ame—at that solemn moment felt himself enraptured by all that he had heard (as he used afterwards to say), and gave expression to his own feelings and those of the Russian people whose representative he considered himself to be, in the following words: "Sire!" said he, "Your Majesty is at this moment signing the glory of the nation and the salvation…†   (source)
  • Their souls met in a last lingering glance and the eyes that reached her heart, full of a strange shining, hung enraptured on her sweet flowerlike face.†   (source)
  • As the first schooner left the ways and glided out into Gloucester harbor, an enraptured spectator shouted: "Oh, see how she scoons!"†   (source)
  • These two, therefore, sat stoutly to it during the whole evening, and long after that happy hour which had surrendered the charming Sophia to the eager arms of her enraptured Jones.†   (source)
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