He had known for a while what many in the rapt crowd still overlooked: The tide was coming in.

By most accounts, the band drew rapt crowds in even the smallest town.

The sun is now casting long shadows sideways across Court 7 and across a rapt crowd.

He looked round at the rapt crowd.

Such digressions amused the rapt crowd, which would have scorned such bar-band style elaborations from a less respected source.

At the center stood the prutanshyr, with its glass caldron, through the sides of which a criminal being boiled and the rapt crowd might inspect each other.

The upturned faces of the rapt crowd, jostling, shouting, unruly, glistened, ran with moisture.

"Neurosis involves issues of style, not substance," declared Hillel Schwartz, a panelist, before a rapt crowd.

Guess what," he told the rapt crowd, "latex causes allergies.

"I love this company," he told the rapt crowd.