15 uses
- Thou didst crave for free love and not the base raptures of the slave before the might that has overawed him for ever.Book 5 — Pro And Contra (63% in)
- And three times she kissed the certainly charming, though rather fat, hand of Grushenka in a sort of rapture.Book 3 — The Sensualists (86% in)
- "Perhaps there's rather too much rapture," thought Alyosha.Book 3 — The Sensualists (86% in)
- But the promise that he should hear his last word on earth, that it should be the last gift to him, Alyosha, sent a thrill of rapture through his soul.Book 4 — Lacerations (17% in)
- My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, that approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (22% in)
- I only speak from rapture, and forgive my tears, for I love the Bible.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (25% in)
- Seek that rapture and ecstasy.Book 6 — The Russian Monk (94% in)
- Something glowed in Alyosha's heart, something filled it till it ached, tears of rapture rose from his soul....Book 7 — Alyosha (97% in)
- He did not stop on the steps either, but went quickly down; his soul, overflowing with rapture, yearned for freedom, space, openness.Book 7 — Alyosha (98% in)
- Oh! in his rapture he was weeping even over those stars, which were shining to him from the abyss of space, and "he was not ashamed of that ecstasy."Book 7 — Alyosha (99% in)
- Mitya, dumb with rapture, gazed into her eyes, at her face, at her smile, and suddenly clasped her tightly in his arms and kissed her passionately.Book 8 — Mitya (93% in)
- Of the raptures of his love he said nothing, but told them that he abandoned his determination to shoot himself, owing to "new factors in the case."Book 9 — The Preliminary Investigation (54% in)
- She greeted Alyosha with cries of rapture.Book 11 — Ivan (10% in)
- I heard the glad shrieks of the cherubim singing and shouting hosannah and the thunderous rapture of the seraphim which shook heaven and all creation, and I swear to you by all that's sacred, I longed to join the choir and shout hosannah with them all.Book 11 — Ivan (91% in)
- ... the thunderous rapture of the seraphim.Book 11 — Ivan (96% in)
There are no more uses of "rapture" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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