If he had thought her expression rapturous before, he’d been wrong. From Wordnik.com. [The Laird Who Loved Me] Reference
An hour was spent in rapturous inspection, and then everything was placed carefully back in the boxes. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
Tim heard my cries, and he arrived at the witch's school to be bathed in rapturous love from the prepubescent masses. From Wordnik.com. [The Tim Curry fandom post/half-assed Worst Witch review] Reference
Reaction to the news of her pending return was met with what can only be described as rapturous delight. From Wordnik.com. [Black America Web] Reference
Any public figure who gets the kind of rapturous crowds that Obama gets is going to be subject to this kind of critique. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Even across the wide interval her attitude expressed to him a kind of rapturous stillness, the concentration of triumph. From Wordnik.com. [The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)] Reference
"rapturous" reception accorded to the pontiff during his African sojourn. From Wordnik.com. [Pharyngula] Reference
Storm through her being, rapturous spears of pain!. From Wordnik.com. [The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence] Reference
And the rapturous welcome can only energize Bhutto and her party. From Wordnik.com. [A Dramatic Return] Reference
As Diantha gave herself to rapturous study of the fashion-plates. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Regiments were rapturous in applause, previous to and during the battle. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
Nonetheless, the crowd on the floor of the Xcel Center last night was rapturous. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Spotlight] Reference
That evening, speaking at a local IT college, the reception is just as rapturous. From Wordnik.com. [Modi's Moment] Reference
Stolid, ramrod-stiff Sergei Ivanov is generally not one to inspire rapturous applause. From Wordnik.com. [Hollow Tipped Threat] Reference
Hungrily, their sinuous bodies rock and quake until both explode in rapturous pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, ‘Meerkat Manor’] Reference
Talese sounded more like a rapturous reader than someone responsible for publishing lies. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrath of Oprah] Reference
When the end was reached she dropped the book on the table with a rapturous indrawn breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Let me ask you if you can understand joy? or sorrow? or a heartache? or rapturous rejoicing?. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
I've had a number of rapturous moments during which I've played like the player I long to be. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Schwartz: 6 Keys to Being Excellent at Anything] Reference
She opened her heavy eyes and gave back a rapturous smile to the other woman's comprehending gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
There was a rapturous letter from Claudio awaiting her, and by that she knew that it was not all a dream. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
But to read some of the rapturous reviews out there, you'd think James Blackshaw is primed for super stardom. From Wordnik.com. [James Blackshaw: A One-Man Orchestra] Reference
As insecure as he was accomplished, he at once craved the public's rapturous attention then shunned it altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Horowitz Rediscovered At Carnegie Hall] Reference
The show spawned five chart-topping soundtracks, a multi-city concert tour and rapturous attention from the media. From Wordnik.com. [On Set: Keeping Up the Glee in Season 2] Reference
Josephus, who was sleeping the sleep of the contented, just after a frenzied and rapturous reunion with his deity. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
And yet ... and yet ... he closes on a rapturous vision of everything else, besides domination, India has to offer. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Real India: A Historian's Cautions on "The Indian Century" (AUDIO)] Reference
In rapturous joy I delight in my home coming, taking position atop a flattened rock bathed in the suns radiance. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrosia] Reference
That dignified audience broke into rapturous applause; bouquets intended for the valedictorian rained like a tempest. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
He lifted his arms upward toward her window with a rapturous joy, as if to embrace her, but she did not look out again. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Priority Inbox has been drawing rapturous praise to the effect of "Godsend" since Google's coverage embargo broke last night. From Wordnik.com. [Gmail adds 'Priority Inbox' option; what else is new in Web-mail?] Reference
Trippi says that the idea is something the Dean forces never had time to articulate, but he is rapturous about the possibilities. From Wordnik.com. [DEAN'S NET EFFECT IS JUST THE START] Reference
With three releases to collect, begin by taking "Bow to String I: 'Sorrow Conquers Happiness,'" from his 2010 rapturous Processions. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 134] Reference
In the book that's now become a movie Gilbert recounts her rapturous encounter, not once, but three times in one day, with the gelato. From Wordnik.com. [San Crispino Gelato: Elizabeth Gilbert/Julia Robert's Rome Obsession In 'Eat, Pray, Love'] Reference
Brahms 'first symphony received rapturous reviews that when a prominent critic nicknamed it "Beethoven's Tenth," Brahms was not amused. From Wordnik.com. [Brahms: Breaking the Mold Beethoven Built] Reference
But you, O rapturous delights, languishing smiles, and first caressing, stammering utterance of love, you who can be seen, who are you?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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