rapt

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Rapt visitors can feast their eyes on a "stunning collection of breadboards and bread knives, butter dishes, butter knives, cheeseboards and related items dating from the 1840s".

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2018

Rapt crowds greeted Pope Francis in Cuba, but some dissidents said they were prevented from meeting him.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2015

Recorded in 2006 and 2007, she says the songs are “the soundtrack to what was an ever continuing love crusade,” a sentiment certainly mirrored on this taster track Rapt.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2014

Rapt and gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rapt in solemn thought       He stood, and round his eyes fire-darting threw   But whilst his viewless origin he sought,       One plain he saw of living waters blue,       Their spring nor saw nor knew.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis