Allen, in which Henry talked at random, without sense or connection, and Catherine, rapt in the contemplation of her own unutterable happiness, scarcely opened her lips, dismissed them to the ecstasies of another tete-a-tete and before it was suffered to close, she was enabled to judge how far he was sanctioned by parental authority in his present application. (Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)Ī very short visit to Mrs. (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Īmong these the ladies choose their gallants: but the vexation is, that they act with too much ease and security for the husband is always so rapt in speculation, that the mistress and lover may proceed to the greatest familiarities before his face, if he be but provided with paper and implements, and without his flapper at his side. She glanced about her and saw the others gazing at him with rapt attention and she would have despaired had not she seen horror in her mother's eyes-fascinated horror, it was true, but none the less horror.Īlleyne might talk to her of the stories of old gods and heroes, of gallant deeds and lofty aims, or he might hold forth upon moon and stars, and let his fancy wander over the hidden secrets of the universe, and he would have a rapt listener with flushed cheeks and eloquent eyes, who could repeat after him the very words which had fallen from his lips. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) Then, what is rapt attention If a performer is really good or particularly mesmerizing, the audience will be totally rapt.Rapt developed from the Latin raptus, meaning to seize, carry off.' So imagine something so interesting that it seizes your attention and carries you off to another world. I was standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper beeches. This spectacle of another's suffering and sacrifice rapt my thoughts from exclusive meditation on my own. The growth isnt as big as something that would get the trade to stand up in rapt attention, but its still good enough considering that the Ayushmann Khurrana and Vaani Kapoor starrer had almost.
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