A manly voice is heard exclaiming in the tones of a rapturous lover, "Rosamond, my own darling, I never expected to realize such happiness.
Dearest Maude," cried Fanny, in rapturous delight, "will we not form a happy family when Mary joins us.
It is not, therefore, a matter of surprise that Lady Rosamond hailed with rapturous delight the accession of the sailor prince as William the Fourth of England.
Then the rockets began to hiss up toward the stars, each falling shower of light greeted with a long rapturous "Ah-h-h!
And here I became aware that Emmie was indulging in a paroxysm of laughter and delight beside me, while a storm of rapturous applause burst out all over the room as the melodious voice ceased and Madame B.
I perfectly remember Chetwynd speaking of you in rapturous terms," she said, "and telling me he had had a strong flirtation with you in the gallery at Brackley Hall, but I had no idea you were at all serious on the occasion.
Don't speak of her in those rapturous terms to me, Mildred, unless you desire to drive me away.
Never did even an angel before convey so important a message, or descend to this earth with such rapturous sensations.
He believed that in these rapturous and triumphant words he was gathering together the experience of every Roman Christian, and would evoke from their lips a confident 'Amen.
These rapturous words are the climax of the Apostle's long demonstration that the Gospel is the revelation of 'the righteousness of God from faith to faith,' and is thereby 'the power of God unto salvation.
The visitor long in cities pent, was exhilarated by the strains and kept on making exclamations of rapturous delight, "Just listen to the larks!
Edgar Strong could be rapturous when he chose, but he evidently didn't choose now.
He meets young men and matches Italian verses with their Spanish; spends whole nights sitting in their cafes or walking their plazas, and comes away with his mouth full of the rapturous verses of an Arab poet: "Adieu, Cordova!
We learned that our South American compatriots had found their own chosen hotel impossible, and were now lodged in rapturous satisfaction under our roof.
Some great, lofty, and rapturous thought must have flashed through her brain, and it was evident that she had seized it and was feeding on it.
They must have had a rapturous meeting in that room; every feature of the fair beauty's saint-like face betrayed the fact.
It ill beseems me of all men, formed by fate for anything rather than to be a sighing and rapturous lover.
Nor had she withheld her approval; she had heartily agreed with his views; and when, half an hour before midnight, he had gone with her to visit his patients, rapturous hopes had sprung once more in his breast.
A noble and rapturous light came into his face, and as he walked on, his hopes rose: "When she is mine I know that everything good in me that I have inherited from my forefathers will blossom forth.
And so while Ferrari had taken his fill of rapturous embraces and lingering farewells, my little one had been allowed to struggle in pain and fever without her mother's care or comfort.
I lay still where I was, staring at the solitary moon-ray, and listening to the nightingale, whose rapturous melodies now rang out upon my ears with full distinctness.
Becky had quite forgotten herself in her excitement, and was grinning at Lottie, who was wriggling with rapturous expectation.
She scarcely dared to stir; but at last she pushed the bedclothes aside, and put her feet on the floor with a rapturous smile.
It cannot be denied that as they sat before the blazing fire, and ate the nourishing, comfortable food, they felt a kind of rapturous awe, and looked into each other's eyes with something like doubt.
Becky uttered the exclamation in a sort of rapturous groan, and ducked her head over her kettle just in time, as the cook came in from the kitchen.
With woeful doubts they showed the flowery maze Of rapturous ill.
I send it, but how shall you, Dear heart, ever understand That rapturous tear of dew, It drops on your strong white hand?
Yet the green earth smiles through the tears she wept; With one long, rapturoussigh The Noon in the arms of Night has crept, And you and I?
There was a poem concerning a young woman, one Charlotte Somebody, who attempted to assassinate Robespierre, or some such person; and there was to have been a rapturous monologue to the dagger of Brutus.
He continued to declaim in his rapturous strain, asserting that chemistry was, in truth, the only science that deserved to be studied.
Could we climb Some mighty Alp, and view the coming time, The rapturous sight would fill Our eyes with happy tears!
Rose gave him a rapturous kiss, and Captain Danton walked away, unlocked the green baize door, and disappeared.
A moment later and the front door opened and shut with a bang, flying feet came along the hall, a silk dress rustled stormily, the dining-room door was flung open, and a young lady bounced in and caught Grace in a rapturous hug.
Inclosed there was a short and rapturous note from Rose herself, saying that she had been married that day, and was blessed beyond the power of words to describe, and was on the point of leaving Canada forever.
Curiously enough Peter did not resent this rapturous greeting.
From chord to chord he let himself go deeper and deeper into the surge and swell of those sound waves, losing all sense of actuality, till the music and the whole dark building were fused in one rapturous solemnity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rapturous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
