203 examples of enraptured in sentences

Now it fell out upon a day, that as Beltane strode the forest ways, there met him a fine cavalcade, gay with the stir of broidered petticoat and ermined mantle; and, pausing beneath a tree, he stood to hearken to the soft, sweet voices of the ladies and to gaze enraptured upon their varied beauty.

MELISSA, ecstasized over Lake Tahoe, and Yo Semité, and the Big Trees, and was delighted, enchanted, and enraptured in the most thorough and conscientious manner.

She knew something good was in store for her and like all girls was enraptured at the thought of visiting new and interesting scenes.

It was at this time that one day I had been wearied with hearing lady Harriot play one long piece of Haydn's music after another, to her enraptured daughter.

The stranger flew across the field, and the ploughman saw him bound over the hedge, take Lucy into his arms, and drag her, bewildered and enraptured, into the cottage.

None was his own, and the enraptured Professor, sinking from the effects of an ecstatic swoon, grasped hold of me and with labored enunciation spoke in a low voice, saying, "I feel in-ex-pres-si-ble e-mo-sions!"

She offered it to him in the twilit room like an enraptured handmaid.

When Jack closed the cover on the last page tenderly and in enraptured understanding, it was past midnight.

At the next house they were in great glory, for there resided the six children who had been enraptured with 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.

So he laid before her enraptured gaze the wealth of the Indiesthe treasure baubles of a hundred queensblue and green, and red and yellow, they gleamed at her.

He went over all the games of the past season, while Bambi turned an enraptured face upon him.

The enraptured count, scarcely able to believe his senses, threw himself upon his knees before her, and stammered out his reply, signifying that the precipitation had been all his own, that he only had any forgiveness to demand, and, though they might pardon, he could never pardon himself for the sacrilege he had committed against her and this god-like Englishman.

Its excessive delicacy attracted; the finesse of its embroidery swayed and enraptured the audience; and the applause at the close was mad, deafening, and peremptory.

On a dark night in the month of December, just as Alonzo had played one of his bewitching airs, with his wonted execution, and was engaged, in converse sweet, with the enraptured Carlotta, an extraordinary and seemingly supernatural noise suddenly proceeded from a distant part of the hallowed ground where Alonzo sacrificed at the shrine of love.

The worthy Bishop handed the paper back to the enraptured boy, and turned to Joel Rae, who now came up.

In a letter to her cousin, Rev. George S. Payson, Mrs. Prentiss thus refers to his last hours: You will hear at dear Dr. Skinner's funeral to-morrow his dying testimony, and I want you to know that it was whispered in my enraptured ear, that I was privileged to spend the whole of Tuesday and all he lived of Wednesday, at his side, and that mine were the hands that closed his eyes and composed his features in death.

"Fly!" she said; "the doors of thy prison are open; and may the angels of heaven direct thy course!" "Thou art surely one of these angels!" said the enraptured Theodore.

A sweet enchantment plays on every sense When my harmonious flood has reached its height Until the enraptured soul would fain go hence

Emerson, the enraptured Yankee.

First, he blundered in his talk as if he was thinking deeply of something else; then his face shone as it had been wont to light up in his boyhood when he was suddenly enraptured with himself; and lastly, down his cheek and into his beard there stole a tear of agony.

and sweep the lyre again With touch seraphic to a Saviour slain; A Saviour, worthy of sublimest verse, A Saviour's love too mighty to rehearse; The purest theme that ever fired the tongue, Gave life to genius,harmony to song; Fill thy enraptured soul with thought divine, And pour its fulness on the glowing line.

The Honorable Peckham was enraptured, claiming now to have a system of getting even with people that beat the invention of Torquemada.

The landscape bares its bosom to the enraptured eye, we take our fill of it, and seem as if we could form no other image of beauty or grandeur.

Enraptured with this gift, which was a pledge of love and faith, he carried it to his lips and said softly: "Thank you; Thank you, with all my heart!"

In the moral or mystic state, the soul, enraptured with God, enjoys perfect tranquility and blessedness.

203 examples of  enraptured  in sentences