raptus

1 “Sometimes things would come in that wonderful raptus of inspiration — if that’s not too grandiose a phrase — and I’d get up and realize it had been hours and I was drenched in sweat.”

2 Even five years ago, most men who killed in a “raptus,” seized by a fit of jealous rage, were often forgiven in the eyes of the law and the women’s deaths treated as domestic “accidents.”

3 He would undoubtedly say,—"My dear Bettina, you, who have such a flow of words and ideas, must certainly have had a raptus when you wrote in that manner to G�the."

4 He will be restrained from that," said the butler, "by his father, who understands well the significance of raptus puellae.

5 It is, however, possible that the raptus was a more serious affair; and Professor Skeat has pointed out the coincidence that Chaucer’s “little son Lowis” was just ten years old in 1391.

6 Know that if we had accused you of this it would not have helped you that Hmelnitski made you his envoy, for this is 'raptus puellae,' a capital offence, which would be judged here immediately.

7 I may not disturb him—he is in his raptus,' she would exclaim despairingly, in allusion to his habit of relapsing into gloomy reverie.

8 He said, "Did I say this?—Well then I have had my raptus."

9 They do but repeat the promise and obscurity of Nature, for she herself has the same largeness, is such another raptus, proceeding to no end, but to a circle or complexity of ends.

10 "What king do you place above all other kings, Magister?" asked Petrea for the second time,--having this evening her "raptus" of questioning.