All 7 Uses of

rapture

in

Bleak House

If she could be translated to heaven to-morrow, she might be expected to ascend without any rapture.†
Chpt 1-3 *

Not that I would have had them less sorry—I am afraid not; but the pleasure of it, and the pain of it, and the pride and joy of it, and the humble regret of it were so blended that my heart seemed almost breaking while it was full of rapture.†
Chpt 1-3

I could myself have kneeled down then, so far away, and blessed him in my rapture that he should be so truly good and brave.†
Chpt 34-36

Accordingly I wrote a little note to him in London, telling him how all his favourite plants and trees were looking, and how the most astonishing of birds had chirped the honours of the house to me in the most hospitable manner, and how, after singing on my shoulder, to the inconceivable rapture of my little maid, he was then at roost in the usual corner of his cage, but whether dreaming or no I could not report.†
Chpt 34-36

He drinks to Mrs. Bagnet with a warmth approaching to rapture, engages himself for that day twelvemonth more than thankfully, makes a memorandum of the day in a large black pocketbook with a girdle to it, and breathes a hope that Mrs. Bucket and Mrs. Bagnet may before then become, in a manner, sisters.†
Chpt 49-51

Of course we turned back, and the affectionate girl was in that state of rapture, and was so overjoyed to talk about the night when she brought me the flowers, and was so determined to squeeze my face (bonnet and all) between her hands, and go on in a wild manner altogether, calling me all kinds of precious names, and telling Allan I had done I don't know what for her, that I was just obliged to get into the little carriage and calm her down by letting her say and do exactly what she liked.†
Chpt 64-65

Allan, very patient with her, waits until she has no more raptures to express, then points out Jo, trembling in a doorway, and tells her how he comes there.†
Chpt 46-48

Definitions:

(1) (rapture as in: listened with rapture)
intense desired emotion -- usually extreme happiness
(2) (rapture as in: awaiting the rapture)
belief of some Christian denominations in a second coming of Jesus when believers are expected to go to Heaven