rapturously

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"Billy!" breathed William rapturously, as he touched his lips to her forehead.

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  • Sanda murmured rapturously, as Max stood silent. —  A Soldier of the Legion
  • She woke rapturously, and drained the silver moon-wine in her cup (the music told the story of her first thought and living heart-beat): then down she stepped from the platform where the sculptor's tools still lay, and began to dance for the other statues who watched in the dusk, hushed back into stillness under the new spell of her enchantments Stephen had never seen anything like that dance. —  The Golden Silence
  • She kissed her rapturously, all the time gurgling something into her ear that George could not hear, and perhaps would not have understood if he had. —  From the Housetops
  • "It is such a tremendous matter to decide Yes, of course, you shall think as much as ever you like," cried De Burgh, rapturously, telling himself "that she who deliberates is lost Take your own time, only don't say no_," ferociously. —  A Crooked Path A Novel
  • "Miss Nevill, Monsieur D'Arblet--you will walk with us as far as the park, won't you I shall be enchanted, Mrs. Hazeldine And wasn't it a pretty wedding," continued Mrs. Hazeldine, rapturously, as they all three walked away together down the shady side of the street; "so remarkably pretty considering that there were no bridesmaids; but Mrs. Romer is so graceful, and dresses so well. —  Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
 

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