rapt

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We all listened with rapt attention as she described the accident.

The audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale.  (source) Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer

I cannot say, but his face was rapt as he conjured those visions.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

Hermione, on the other hand, was listening to Lockhart with rapt attention and gave a start when he mentioned her name.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

In her hands was a crystal ball into which she was gazing raptly.  (source) Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time, 1962

The boy watched, his initial doubt replaced with plain delight, then by raptness, then by a dawning mute blankness.  (source) Stephen King, The Gunslinger, 1981

Moving deliberately around the display, Billie points out Chris as a toddler astride a hobby horse, Chris as a rapt eight-year-old in a yellow rain slicker on his first backpacking trip, Chris at his high school commencement.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Clustered around the radio, they all listen raptly to the BBC.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Jamie stood to one side a little, observing me and taking pleasure in my raptness.  (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

Harris cracked it open and was immediately rapt.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

The boy and his mother study it raptly over MAMA'S shoulders.  (source) Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, 1959

I would listen, rapt, as he told stories of warring tribes, Pashtun leaders and saints, often through poems that he read in a melodious voice, crying sometimes as he read.  (source) Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala, 2013

Arya made faces across the table when no one was looking; Sansa listened raptly while the king's high harper sang songs of chivalry, and Rickon kept asking why Jon wasn't with them.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, 1999

She was rapt with love.  (source) Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer

In the painting, the angel is gazing in rapt adoration of baby Jesus.

He was gazing upward with a rapt expression, a man watching his greatest dream become reality.  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Glass, 2009

It was only a few months after the pigs had been sold that she noticed one day, with a cold sensation in her stomach, that familiar rapt expression on Dick's face.  (source) Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing, 1950

"An' we'd keep a few pigeons to go flyin' around the win'mill like they done when I was a kid." He looked raptly at the wall over Lennie's head. "An' it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."  (source) John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, 1937

So he preached to them, as he had always preached: with that rapt fury which they had considered sacrilege and which those from the other churches believed to be out and out insanity.  (source) William Faulkner, Light in August, 1932

Anne had no business to look so rapt and radiant.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

...they could see the faces of the lovers, pale, close together, rapt in oblivious forgetfulness, drifting into the unknown.  (source) Kate Chopin, The Awakening, 1899

The piece of glass broken out at the corner of the window just nipped off the bare heel of the boy standing motionless and looking with rapt eyes into the face of the Christ.  (source) Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, 1919

It was strange that the girl did not seem aware of it: that she could lift her rapt face to her dancer's, and drop her hands into his, without appearing to feel the offence of his look and touch.  (source) Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome, 1911

"He say he love me," repeated the girl, in a kind of rapt awe.  (source) Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars, 1914

He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described.  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, 1878

He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray and tufted hair; his voice and hands shook as with palsy; but on his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.  (source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903