Word: rapt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spleened railers who love to carp at Harvard morals, some of those nice, good people who boast of having educated themselves, and never realize that they had a very poor teacher, if some of these would some time attend the college church services and observe the rapt attention with which Wendell Phillips and his colleagues are listened to, they would pause for a moment before trying to convince the world that college students are embryo Mephistopheles, and very minions of the lord of Hades let loose upon a lamb-like public, and going about seeking whom they may devour...
...Such rapt, unconscious, graceful sprites...
Evangeline, with gentle hand and rapt attention, drew back the wrappings...
...ride in the railway-carriage. We travelled third class, for, as he said, poetry was flat, and there was very little profit in the business. There was a plethoric Irish female in the apartment with a crying infant in her arms. I saw that Tennyson's countenance had a rapt, far-away look, so I said pleasantly, "Composing, eh? Sonnet on a weeping infant, - ah! very tender, very touching! Can't I give you a hint...