The singers were dwelling on one of those low, dying chords, which the ear devours with such greedy rapture, as if conscious that it is about to lose them, when a cry, that seemed neither human nor earthly, rose in the outward air, penetrating not only the recesses of the cavern, but to the inmost hearts of all who heard it.
Trevor cried out into my mouth, and I drank down his rapture as I felt the warmth of his release rush against me.
The salty flesh slipped down into his belly and for a long time, Sam was lost in the rapture of feeding.
Ignore a snapping twig and it could be the last thing you hear this side of rapture.
From the lips of the Schism Inquisitor, the city would hear the words of God and fall into a profound religious rapture.
The manhood of Heyward felt no shame in dropping tears over this spectacle of affectionate rapture and Uncas stood, fresh and blood-stained from the combat, a calm, and, apparently, an unmoved looker-on, it is true, but with eyes that had already lost their fierceness, and were beaming with a sympathy that elevated him far above the intelligence, and advanced him probably centuries before, the practises of his nation.
Just when she was about to leap off that precipice into rapture, the music started.
Sister Aimee claimed she had recently prayed for a revived spirit and been answered by an astonishing vision of the coming rapture and of the heavenly choir and orchestra of angels descending to accompany the saints in their journey home.
At his side was a faceless girl, twirling her parasol and listening in rapture as he read Emerson aloud.
They engulfed us in a circle and stared in rapture as if they had never seen anything more incredible in their lives.
