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The two young men were rapt, and waited rather impatiently for
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Once he entered, he paid little attention to the couple by the window, rapt in quiet conversation with expressions of deeply felt sympathy and nearly touching hands
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Chloe was absolutely rapt with attention to the exploits and talents of the young gentleman now in residence under her own roof
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Kaitlyn had listened with rapt interest to every detail, and had accepted with gratitude each time Harry called attention to how she held and walked with her pole
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Allcock remarked, rapt with the intercourse
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The others had listened to there dialog with rapt interest as if the players were indeed on a stage, and when Harold played his final metaphor they clapped happily for both
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Yula and Mim were rapt with attention over the present conversation
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All eyes were now on him and he had their rapt attention
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Brightness listened to Darkburst's story with rapt attention, her pink eyes following his every move as he paced back and forth across the chamber, lost in his description of the bright ball of light that had emerged from the Sacred Roots and the wonderful image it had contained
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Paul, noting Kate’s rapt interest in his story, continued
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So I just lay there as weak as a newborn kitten and listened more or less in rapt attention
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A ring of officers, many high-ranking, stood gathered around my bed, rapt attention turned to the quiet, yet confident authority of the famous Billy Bishop
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The boys in the tent looked on and listened with rapt attention
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Michael Henderson, Sylvia’s son? He carried the folder to his desk and fell into rapt fascination, as a story unfolded such as he would never have suspected
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The kid listened in rapt attention
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Captain Ensilnos was still seated on the desk where Colling had left him, leaning across it and speaking to the young receptionist, who seemed to be giving the NKVD man her rapt attention
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Now Homulkar seemed to be introducing his eldest son, “Nimrud” the “curly mop” that had held Nisaba’s rapt attention
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By early light I would awaken to observe all four cats lying chin on hands, figuratively speaking, gazing with rapt attention at the magical sight of pearly light and mists streaking into the garden from the east
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Maggie cast a glance at Nicolas and saw that he was watching with rapt attention
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I told him about the Re Che campaign and he listened with rapt attention
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Charmed the way a child is when they are taken to the theatre for the first time, rapt by the performance in a similar fashion to an infant bordered by fireworks, lights, and glitter
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With a look of rapt anticipation, he bluntly posed the question again
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He realized that there was complete silence, because every elf in attendance was following the conversation with rapt attention
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Glancing up from her posture of quasi meditation, she saw Simon was gazing at her, his expression rapt
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They suddenly ceased their rapt conversation as Mark’s party appeared above them
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A thought intruded upon his rapt attention of the flight
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It had almost escaped Moshe’s rapt attention toward the southern annihilator that they had also just barely stayed ahead in the race with Myserrah, until those hard-charging chariots fell in close behind the frantic efforts of Moshe’s troopers
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What a grand old man he is! Moshe thought as he listened in rapt attention sitting, as it were, at the feet of that old master, first among his troops who sat in a tight circle between him and the multitude pressing close behind them
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fringe of the multitude who were now giving their rapt attention to the old man
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It had almost escaped Moshe's rapt attention toward the southern annihilator that they had
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What a grand old man he is! Moshe thought as he listened in rapt attention sitting, as it were,
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As he seemed to float closer and closer to them, he could see clearly their rapt
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Dimarico looked and saw one of the Saxons peering at them with a rapt expression
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While she was rapt in prayer, the community saw Ven Serafina
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Jarek was rapt to be in a walled garden replete with fruit trees, bushes, herb gardens, neat paths and a bountiful vegetable patch! It was the secret garden he’d dreamed of since reading Edith Nesbit stories as a child
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The three semi-drunk men were staring at her in rapt attention, and though Tristan couldn’t understand what was said, he figured that it was something disgusting
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He cast his eyes over Mary, to find her sitting in rapt attention
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In time, having heard his father with rapt attention, the son realized why so many thought hearing his discourse was like waking into the dawn of enlightenment
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He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed and he is a stranger unto himself
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Ray Phillips, like the rest of us, had given his rapt attention to ‘The Professor’, now he spoke
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Ingwe watched, rapt, then lay back and pushed
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He had everyone’s rapt attention
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Jake did appear to believe her and he had been caught in rapt attention the entire time
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But if the same professor sings and tells some interesting and thrilling stories, all people hear him with rapt attention
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" She said and then opened her eyes with a slight grin on her perfectly parted lips to see the effect the performance had had on her rapt audience of one
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story and his audience listened with rapt attention
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” The father listened with rapt attention
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sat in his bed with rapt interest
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The rapt reader was up well beyond the
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who, in turn, heard him with rapt attention and sympathy
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His siblings allowed for his creativity just to watch their mother's rapt interest in the tale
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Vedara cringed at the hopeless cliché, but Moraine had unfastened several buttons of her blouse and when she leaned forward she displayed cleavage that left so little to the imagination that Vedara suspected her friend could begin reciting the dry Articles of the Confederation and still command the cook’s rapt attention
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It was one of these nights that Veronique listened in rapt delight at Nanosh telling the story of the shooting star that fell to earth
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If he had the words of Eternal Life, as she suspected from the rapt attentiveness of his hearers, why shouldn't he spill some of them over on her? Perhaps religion was, after all, what she really needed, though she must say she didn't think much of the idea of being beaten to one's knees
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Desiree' and I were rapt until the end, then she spoke up
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I quoted awestruck, watching this vast plain of light with clasped hands and rapt spirit
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There were dozens of men, probably handsome young admirers, clustered around the stage; she was not sure why her attention was held rapt by this distant, intense gaze
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The animals were rapt as Mitch told about coming upon the large pickup, the two “large and scary” human hunters, how Mitch rigged the truck to explode with ammunition
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In any case they were listening with rapt attention (anything was better than doing maths, he guessed)
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“You can tell them wise things you read here and there, other wise things you made up yourself (like the story of how you float above the herd, stuff like that), and they will listen to you with rapt attention, because it will be written all over your face that you really know what you’re talking about
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Nero rose to his feet, not in distress, but in rapt attention to the bloody scene
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Pjodarr watched with rapt attention as Gruesome pulled the axe from his hip
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The others watched with rapt attention as they entered the camp
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Inside those same cylindrical vimanas utilized during the lunar siege, Priestess Kaitabh and her closest subordinates were held rapt by developments far below
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Guddi, who was listening to Mayank with rapt attention, looking all throughout in his eyes;
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Set aside some hour of the day, wherein to hold rapt converse with the soul
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of trance was not due to the magnetic power of the hypnotist; but through hard, rapt
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They continued laughing until a rapt Kalia turned and said, “Watch this part—watch and listen
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People still instinctively gather to watch a burning building burn down; rapt in fascination of the destructive power of the flames devouring everything, destroying everything
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Rhodri and his sons, their eyes watched us with more than awe, but adulation, rapt to be near us, staring at Arthur as if he had been born in the blood of a god; reverence, veneration and devotion, it was all there on their faces…all watching me with the same looks as I took Arthur through to the doctor to get his forehead stitched
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Whether it is soccer practice, or hanging out in the hood, or being told to go out and play, or piano lessons, or taking them to a movie where they will sit rapt at something and be still, and not have to bother with them for two hours, or watch TV and not have to bother with them, or play video games and not have to bother with them or the use a computer and not have to bother with them
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Jeff, along with the rest of the Duniway contingent, watched in rapt
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All the while the meat had cooked over the fire the girl had stared at it in rapt focus
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Tolak had shared all of this with me of the history of these lands and I true to my love for my profession as an archaeologist had listened in rapt detail to every word
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I then explained our retreat from the city to them and they listened in rapt attention, not even asking a question, as I laid out the plan before them
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But Rahul listened with rapt
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Yet five minutes after she had passed the statue of Achilles she had the rapt look of one brushing through crowds on a summer's afternoon, when the trees are rustling, the wheels churning yellow, and the tumult of the present seems like an elegy for past youth and past summers, and there rose in her mind a curious sadness, as if time and eternity showed through skirts and waistcoasts, and she saw people passing tragically to destruction
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And the charm of the carol rapt me,
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But most in the open air as now when my soul is rapt and at peace,
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And those rapt oriental dances of religious fervor,
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The rapt promises and lumine of seers, the spiritual world, these
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How through those strains distill'd--how the rapt ears, the soul of
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"I am going to her; and you, darling child, shall come to us!" and never stirred or spoke again; but continued that rapt, radiant gaze, till his pulse imperceptibly stopped and his soul departed
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Of this scene, so chillingly in accordance with the past, Duncan stood for many minutes a rapt observer
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And Gerty, rapt in thought, scarce saw or heard her companions or the twins at their boyish gambols or the gentleman off Sandymount green that Cissy Caffrey called the man that was so like himself passing along the strand taking a short walk
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“Now explain all this to me again?” Frank asked a few times, and each time all three of them listened with confused and rapt attention
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Rapt, transported, trembling, he was possessed in all his senses by this new divine thing that caught up his helpless soul and swung and dandled it, a powerless but happy infant in a strong sustaining grasp
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The rapt air, the rhythmic utterance, the intent listeners -- what was At once he realized that this was no story
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Harris cracked it open and was immediately rapt
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Rapt in the atmosphere of certain writers I converted the small storage room, adjacent to our bedroom, into my own
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I looked around the faces I had grown fond of, rapt with attention, and I thought of Will
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” He looked over at Marybeth as if she didn’t know the story, and Marybeth obliged with her rapt attention
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A wet sob rolled out over the audience, everyone rapt
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The members of the jury were rapt as they heard about what my shots had done to Sara Cabot’s heart, but when Broyles had finished examining her, Yuki was ready for Claire on cross-examination
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Still the audience sat rapt, unmoving
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He was rapt with awe