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Meanings of silent rapture in English

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Usage of silent rapture in English
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The widow confronted the chimney-piece, and clasped her hands in silent rapture.
Jezebel's Daughter
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Dorothea listened to her pretty tongue, and mused over her with a silent rapture.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
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Hearts, like sweet fountains sealed, where silent rapture springs.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12,...
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Then followed a moment of silent rapture, during which she moistened his shirt-collar with maternal tears.
Trumps
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Day broke; and displayed his face cast upward in silent rapture, and his hands together; like Margaret's.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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She drew Minna to her bosom, and embraced in silent rapture the one creature whom she loved.
Jezebel's Daughter
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Her hands trembled slightly while they held the quivering sheet, from which she read in silent rapture.
Honor Edgeworth; Or, Ottawa's Present Tense
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The twins hugged their dolls in silent rapture, but Aunt Elizabeth's face was the best of all.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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But senators, dignitaries, and Augustians, assembled on the aqueduct, bowed their heads and listened in silent rapture.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
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She gazed upon it with a kind of silent rapture, while a faint smile rested upon her pallid lips.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
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But the precaution has been taken to blind the people, and they drink in the vile poison with silent rapture.
Essays on Russian Novelists
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After that she went up to see Roselle Geraldine every day, gazing at her for long moments in silent rapture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
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When they reached Hollywood, where Judge Hildreth had business with Mr. Hawthorne, Evadne was in an ecstasy of silent rapture.
A Beautiful Possibility
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Anne gave herself up to a silent rapture over the shore road and Marilla guided the sorrel abstractedly while she pondered deeply.
Anne of Green Gables
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And when she left the bath, and the silvery drops and the roseate light rippled down her body, I was seized with silent rapture.
Venus in Furs
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They rose, and embraced in silent raptures of joy.
The Old English Baron: a Gothic Story
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Silent rapture across language varieties
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