rapture

• The whole face is electrified with delicious rapture, and she stretches up her arms to clasp him about the neck Oh, you thought of me, then!" —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
• When I am tempted to wind up my line, and give the whole thing up in despair, I revive my flagging enthusiasm by recalling the rapture of my earlier catches. —  Mushrooms on the Moor
• He sighed with rapture, and examined the cup from every side with the utmost minuteness Give this worthy man," said he, "four bags of guilders; money is nothing to the acquisition of such a treasure of beauty Here Peter secretly hugged himself, and chuckled at his daughter's warning. —  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
• "A Melody" is beautiful; "Butterflies and Buttercups" is the perfection of grace; "I Know not if Moonlight or Starlight" is a fine rapture, and "A Disappointment" is a dire tragedy, all about some young toadstools that thought they were going to be mushrooms. —  Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions
• He gazed at her with rapture, and involuntarily bowed his head, as to a being not of the earth. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847

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