1 The sun was setting now; and the red light in the evening sky touched every face there, and caused it to be distinctly seen in all its rapt suspense.
2 He received no answer, all for the moment sitting rapt in admiration of the performance described.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People 3 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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 4 Phemius was still singing, and his hearers sat rapt in silence as he told the sad tale of the return from Troy, and the ills Minerva had laid upon the Achaeans.
5 He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation.
6 Mrs. Trenor fixed a rapt eye upon her.
7 Of this scene, so chillingly in accordance with the past, Duncan stood for many minutes a rapt observer.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 8 The old oak, quite transfigured, spreading out a canopy of sappy dark-green foliage, stood rapt and slightly trembling in the rays of the evening sun.
9 While these marvels meet Dardanian Aeneas' eyes, while he dizzily hangs rapt in one long gaze, Dido the queen entered the precinct, beautiful exceedingly, a youthful train thronging round her.
10 He was wrinkled and black, with scant gray and tufted hair; his voice and hands shook as with palsy; but on his face lay the intense rapt look of the religious fanatic.