raptness

It is the thing he loves best to do -- constructive play -- giving play to his powers, bringing him to that raptness which is full inner breathing and timeless ....

Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

Jamie stood to one side a little, observing me and taking pleasure in my raptness.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

His unexpected, mythic journey has turned the past twenty-two months into a national raptness.

Adam Hanft: What We'll Miss 2008

Just look at Bliss' face while he's performing--there's a kind of radiance and raptness shining forth, a transfiguration, like that indescribable expression on Tiger Woods' face as he swept the 2001 Masters, stroke after stroke; the club, ball, and indeed the course itself were an extension of his body.

Archive 2006-04-01 2006

She was listening to the player with the raptness of a painted saint: her whole face listened, the tightened lips, the open nostrils, the wide, vigilant eyes.

Maurice Guest 2003

I had thought the silence, the raptness, the quality of still, centered beauty was the effect of the klieg, but it wasn't.

Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994

The boy watched, his initial doubt replaced with plain delight, then by raptness, then by a dawning mute blankness.

The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

There is a misty broodiness in his eyes which leaves them indescribably lovely to me as I watch him in his moments of raptness.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

He has that raptor raptness, as much feline and serpentine, and I saw him gulp down a very large fly, lick his scaly little chops and sit all attention for the next chump.

mondosapore 2009

He has that raptor raptness, as much feline and serpentine, and I saw him gulp down a very large fly, lick his scaly little chops and sit all attention for the next chump.

mondosapore 2009