Geraldine was so beautiful as to authorise the raptures of her poetical lover.
He stood by my side, and was in raptures over her charms.
Leicester was in raptures over her complaisance and glowed with triumph and delightful anticipation.
When I look into them, I seem to read the mysteries of the great deep, and the raptures of heaven.
Come, in place of entering the castle immediately, to pay our respects to the queen-mother, we will take a walk through the garden, that you may allay your raptures and recover your reason.
And Hildebert descants upon the raptures of the vita contemplativa, of which his friend is now bereft.
She continued her raptures about little Amelia, talked about her before her face as if she were a doll, or a servant, or a picture, and admired her with the most benevolent wonder possible.
The next morning he coolly broke in upon my raptures over the beauty of the Oravicza ladies by saying, "You want to buy a horse, don't you?
Come then, ye virgins and ye youths whose hearts Have felt the raptures of refining love; And thou, Amanda, come, pride of my song!
Some have extraordinary raptures and ecstacies of joy and sweetness, others attain not to that, but are rather kept in attendance and waiting on God in his ways, but all of them have one common salvation.
It is sufficient if God speak peace to the soul, though it be not acquainted with these raptures of Christianity.
The romantic conception of the mediaeval love, the shudderings and raptures of Christian revelation, have certain phases that absolute music alone can express.
Her raptures grew still greater as she partook of the savoury omelets, and by-and-by ate some of that souffle which most certainly Mary Anne could never have compounded.
They had not cared for her greatly when at Hazlitt Chase, but they were just in the mood to be in the best temper with everything, and had been in raptures with her rendering of Helen of Troy.
Next we lingered before a shop where the women of our party went into raptures over the exquisite gowns and the beautiful needlework displayed.
It is certainly true, however, that we often pass over the familiar and commonplace to go into raptures over some lofty mountain peak, ignoring the gems that lie hidden away at its very base.
Unusual transports made my head turn round, } Whilst I myself with rising raptures found } The happy son of ane sae much renown'd.
We neglect all our great poets, and are in raptures with Allan Ramsay.
And for years he had refused to frame them for fear that the first blundering fool who caught sight of them might deem it necessary to fly into banal and facile raptures before them.
Nothing loth, Miss Gibbs agreed; and went into fresh raptures when she saw Toni's bedroom.
If Toni said little during that magic excursion, it was not shyness alone which sealed her lips; and although he cast a look now and then at his companion, Owen was too considerate to break into her raptures with questioning words.
May, followed him everywhere, and went into raptures at the slightest notice from him.
But in the raptures of Frederick Stephenson there was no mixture of reproach; he seemed rapt in an ecstasy of admiration and love, the exact amount of which was pretty fairly appreciated by every one who listened to him except herself.
All the company were in raptures with Niniche, who was going through his performances.
The raptures of the New Yorkers and Bostonians with Jenny Lind are weak and cold compared with the ovations which Jasmin has received.
To possess all love, stretched on the wings of swans, in a sky of purity, in the arms of a mistress of light, whose caresses are but raptures of the soul!
But even while the baby ravished her heart, the heart was busy with the bride before her and the bridal raptures which she had known, only to lose upon the wayside where so many bridal raptures lie dead and dying; outworn and weary.
Julia professed raptures over all she saw; kissed Marie, and was gone.
He was in raptures at the inexhaustible range of cattle pasture, the permanent water, and the grass and herbage generally.
His raptures on this point led to a much higher estimate of the value of this river being entertained than it deserved; and until its exploration by Gregory, many shared Stokes' opinion as to its future importance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raptures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
