How To Use Blush In A Sentence
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Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”
George Washington’s First War
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It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces.
Times, Sunday Times
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an unblushing apologist for fascism
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Soon the setting sun makes the mountains blush a bridal pink.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lor gave a faint, but apparent sign of a blush in her cheek.
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A welcome sign of the times to encourage young men to reach for the blushers and exfoliants?
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Soon the setting sun makes the mountains blush a bridal pink.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the front view was the setting sun giving a blush of pink, peach, orange and some purple.
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One of the quickest and most effective ways to give glitz to your looks is to add blusher to your make-up routine.
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Don't keep telling yourself that a particular situation is bound to make you blush.
Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
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Roses or blush wines that border on the sweet side also pair well with informal food such as barbecue.
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Tchitcherine tracks mud off the street into the Center, gets a blush from Luba, a kind of kowtow and mopflourish from the comical Chinese swamper Chu Piang, unreadable stares from an early pupil or two.
Gravity's Rainbow
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I blush to admit it, but I quite like her music.
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In her difficulty, she turned down her eyelids again and blushed over face and neck.
Daniel Deronda
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Thank God, there were no lights; I could so feel my face burn up, probably blushing.
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Many a flower is born to blush unseen.
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He quickly drew back and slid towards the opposite edge of the bench, blushing furiously.
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The cloth has been withdrawn, the General has given the King’s health, the servants have left the room, the guests sit conticent, and so, after a little hemming and blushing, Mr. George proceeds: — “I remember, at the table of our General, how the little
The Virginians
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At harvest the apples are little Snow White albino apples, so you unbag them for a few days until they take on a sweet little rose blush, like a sunburn on a virgin's buttock!
Everything2 New Writeups
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He's so modest, though, he'd blush if someone made an off-color remark.
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I had not changed my intellectual belief as to my correspondent's behavior, but the impropriety of complicating an awkward business by placing myself in the wrong to the extent of losing my temper was so obvious that I blushed in recalling the bombastic periods of the torn composition.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
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I don't wish to blame my children for everything, but they are a major liability when you're prone to blushing.
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Even in midwinter, in the icy church, the blushing bride would throw aside her broadcloth cape or camblet roquelo and stand up clad in a sprigged India muslin gown with only a thin lace tucker over her neck, warm with pride in her pretty gown, her white bonnet with ostrich feathers and embroidered veil, and in her new husband.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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And, considering its subject matter and its undoubted hotness, is not at all blush-making.
Venus in Fur
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It could be amusing if the pols posted unblushing, unedited diaries of what they were really thinking, as real bloggers do.
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Smooth out sharp edges and make sure your blush blends seamlessly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr. Slope had to explain, not without blushing for his patron, that there was no champagne.
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But the mountain still blushes with the palest of pinks, suffusing the blues that give an inkling of the intense cold.
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But I am thankful to live in times when men no longer have the temptation to write so as to call blushes on women’s cheeks, and would shame to whisper wicked allusions to honest boys.
Roundabout Papers
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From Thursday on, the television cameras will beam sumptuous shots of loblolly pines and blushing azaleas around the world.
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Wouldn't he prefer the blushing apple of his eye to do the decent thing?
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Her vocabulary would make an outback Aussie blush.
The Sun
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Sweep on the base colour with a powder brush, blending outwards, then take a good-quality blusher brush with domed bristles try the Body Shop or Mac and grin insincerely so cheeks fatten in the middle.
Beauty: Blushers
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Casey blushed, her hands full, not being able to reciprocate, but grinning as much as her anyway.
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she blushed guiltily as she spoke
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She blushed at the thoughts running through her mind after surveying him fully still clad in his charcoal grey dress pants that accented his derrière perfectly.
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She pictured herself with pink lipstick and violet nail polish and a little blush.
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Mackenzie didn't say anything and just blushed, his cheeks burning scarlet.
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Kellen blushed, and assented, wondering if he'd ever really get the hang of the indirectness of Elven manners.
Tran Siberian
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That they make them without blushing is a sign of the power of Tolkien, and the overwhelming quality of his prose.
Infectious language
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I blushed when he sermonized to one of my boyfriends about the vitality and pleasure of true love.
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She blushed as red as a rose.
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Residents -- whether for the purposes unblushingly avowed by that sometime favourite of the stage, Mr. Eccles, or for the reasons less horrifying to the United Kingdom Alliance -- found themselves more at home in "Caesarea" than in "Sarnia," and the "five-pounder," as the summer tripper was despiteously called by natives, liked to go as far as he could for his money, and found St. Helier's "livelier" than
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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As this issue of TIME closed, our editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage.
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‘I can't look at this painting without blushing,’ she says, showing me a colour photocopy of one of Kahlo's lush phallic portrayals of a priapic vegetable.
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In her difficulty, she turned down her eyelids again and blushed over face and neck.
Daniel Deronda
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She blushed at her stupid mistake.
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As soft as a blush when one is complimented, a pink hue with the warm sweetness of jasmine in a bottle that too is a blush colour yet is more romantic in tone, luminous in feel.
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I thought I detected a blush but they've been very professional in rehearsal.
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I would be mortified cancelling someone who had flown 600 miles to see me, but important men don't sport the blush of shame.
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A rosy blush was used on her cheeks and a pretty pink gloss brushed across her lips.
The Sun
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We're both great fans of a cream rosy blusher because it gives a fabulous healthy glow and mimics the lustre of young skin.
The Sun
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The crème blush comes in a handy compact with mirror.
Times, Sunday Times
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Inhalation of mercury vapor over a long period may cause mercurialism which is characterized by fine tremors and erethism" "" Erethism may be manifested by abnormal shyness, blushing, self-consciousness, depression or despondency, resentment of criticism, irritability or excitability, headache, fatigue and insomnia.
THE MERCURY MISCHIEF: As Obama Warns of Hazards, the FDA Approves Mercury Dental Fillings
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We're all flushed with excitement over blush once again.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces.
Times, Sunday Times
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We all, blushed, like respectable noblewomen should, but we waved back.
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He raised his head to look at her, meeting her eyes and giving her a sly smile, causing a faint blush to appear on her cheeks.
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The lipsticks, eye shadows, blushes and translucent powder in this kit will help transform your looks in no time.
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His effusive praise has left me blushing.
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We are not going to outrage your sweet modesties, or call blushes on your maiden cheeks.
The Virginians
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Autumn has a light touch here: a burgundy fringe on the roadside, gold and blush in haptic patches on the tree crowns, like the burnish on a pear.
Champagne : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Look with what a blushless face of triumph she eyes her poor tottering neighbour opposite, who never appears destined "to suffer a recovery.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829
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Assemble the burgers by spreading the bap bases with mayonnaise, then topping with two slices of aubergine and some sunblush tomatoes.
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They had set up their picnic in a slight shade and Matt peppered her with flattering comments that kept her blushing.
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‘Oh, I read all your articles,’ an excited advertiser tells a colleague, who blushed for the nth time that evening.
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Although not given to blushing, Dick felt that he coloured under his dye at the praise; for although they had certainly sold cheaply, he doubted whether the term honest could be fairly applied to the whole transaction.
The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
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This is why humans don't tend to blush until about age two, right around the same time they "individuate" and realize they are not the same person as mom and dad.
Uakari Monkey & The Origin of Blushing
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Only use products such as blusher and mascara which enhance what you already have.
The Daily Record - Home
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At first blush, that would seem a preposterous proposition.
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We did not answer, because now, for the first time, it came over all of us, in a rush of blushes and uncomfortableness, that burying a fox is a suspicious act.
The Wouldbegoods
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His PR woman for the show has seen stylists and hairdressers blush when he walks into the room.
Times, Sunday Times
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I almost blush when I think of myself as describing the eight several facets on two slender processes of the palate bone, or the seven little twigs that branch off from the minute tympanic nerve, and I wonder whether my excellent colleague feels in the same way when he pictures himself as giving the constitution of neurin, which as he and I know very well is that of the hydrate of trimethyle-oxethyle-ammonium, or the formula for the production of alloxan, which, though none but the Professors and older students can be expected to remember it, is C10 H4 N4 O6+ 2HO, NO5 = C8 H4 N2
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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I added blusher and eyeshadow.
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Little red berries, like blood stars, peeped at them from the setting of silk lace moss -- wintergreen berries, and grouse berries, and lowbush cranberries, all blushing a furious red.
The Outcasts
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Then, with a blush brush, gently apply a light pink color along cheekbones.
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I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale.
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Could they have seen our merry graduates, when the door was locked for the night, and the venerable wig was thrown aside, jollifying over their supper! could they have heard the peals of laughter caused by the unlooked-for success of the frolic, how would their cheeks have been covered with blushes!
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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The Breathless Blush combines well with pink flowered selections of salvias and burgundy leafed grasses, while a touch of lime green foliaged plants such as coleus or lamium will add some extra zest.
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With each year that passes, the celebration would become more melancholy - the holiday more of a national blush of shame.
Times, Sunday Times
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His greatest strengths - the uncompromising determination, sharp-tongued irreverence, and unblushing idealism - turned out to be critical flaws.
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She suddenly realized the oddity of her remark and blushed.
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We can give them rhinestones or glitter on the nails, or make-up, which is blusher, eyes and lips.
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His cheeks had such a blush to them that I wondered idly whether he'd rouged them a bit.
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Nobody knows why some people should be affected by facial blushing so severe that it blights their lives.
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Adrienne blushed furiously, but Janet's crimson cheeks outdid hers.
ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
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Join "saith ... concerning the house of Jacob." redeemed -- out of Ur, a land of idolaters (Jos 24: 3). not now -- After the moral revolution described (Isa 29: 17), the children of Jacob shall no longer give cause to their forefathers to blush for them. wax pale -- with shame and disappointment at the wicked degeneracy of his posterity, and fear as to their punishment.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Older women tend to over-compensate by putting on too much foundation, blusher and powder.
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Apply cream blush in pinky or peachy tones to the apples of your cheeks.
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Even the mention of her name makes him blush.
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Claudia shook her head, blushing slightly in embarrassment as all eyes looked at them.
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It's filled with unsupported assertions, deceptive qualifiers, logical fallacies and rhetorical tricks so cheap they would make a trial lawyer blush.
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It's tempting to veer into overkill territory with defined lashes and a sweep of rosy blusher on the cheeks.
Times, Sunday Times
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I blush whenever I think about it.
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Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud.
Dombey and Son
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Shadow, blusher, and foundation can leave oily deposits in the pores.
Take Care of Your Skin
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But I feel that -- that if something came into his life --" She blushed, but went on bravely -- "something to take him out of what he calls the grind --
Out of the Primitive
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And the only reason you even looked at me and blushed was because you had seen me almost naked.
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I play the child, and weep at the recollection — for the grief is still fresh that stunned as well as wounded me — yet never did drops of anguish like these bedew the cheeks of infantine innocence — and why should they mine, that never was stained by a blush of guilt?
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
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From blushers to blow-dries, we spend more money than we probably can afford trying to make ourselves look good.
Ahead of the Curve
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I went for the roast chicken breast stuffed with Brie and sun-blushed tomatoes and served with a sauce of port and redcurrant.
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He saw Stella, blushed and twirled his hair around with a pencil, and then about-turned sharpish back out of the room.
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He looked at the ghost for a moment, and kept on lighting his cigarette, when a galloot up in the gallery said, so everybody could hear it, "He don't scare worth a damn!" and the audience went fairly wild, while the pretty girl stood there and blushed as though her heart would break.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
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I blush whenever I think about it.
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I also dabbed on some lip-gloss and blush, and even managed to evenly apply some black eyeliner.
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I blush, the warm heat flooding over my cheeks, changing my normally lily-white complexion to a pink, and take my place with the rest of the squad.
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A moment of historical awareness would mantle his cheeks with a blush of shame.
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He knows this would be worthless: his own voluntary targets of a 20 percent reduction in Britain's emissions by 2020 were binned with a blush this year.
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More recently, my delight in finding some lovely sun blushed tomatoes which don't actually taste like bits of carpet someone has spilt tomato puree on has been hampered by a patronising little addition to the label informing me that 10p from every 'special pack' is being donated to Comic Relief.
Archive 2007-02-01
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I only bring out the blush, eyeshadow, and mascara on special occasions, or when I feel inspired!
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It was positively with trepidation that he presented himself before her very soon after his arrival; and an undeniable blush "mantled" his cheek -- if a blush can be said with any propriety to mantle the male cheek --- when he marched into the drawing-room, where she was doing a dainty bit of embroidery, and with much simplicity and directness said, "You said I might come, you know, and I have come; and I begged of Ethel to come too, but she could not leave my aunt," before he had so much as shaken hands.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
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Nor does Chertoff blush at "incapacitating" the innocent: "… we have arrested and successfully prosecuted a number of people … for acts that perhaps were not terrorist in nature but allowed us to incapacitate someone who we had reason to believe was a terrorist.
LewRockwell.com
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Many of these vineyards survived, partly out of neglect, and partly because of the popularity of White Zinfandel, a cloyingly sweet "blush" wine created at Sutter Home Vineyard in 1975.
The Power and Punch of Zinfandel
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The dirty joke raised a blush on her cheek.
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Nellie joined him in a gleesome dance of triumph round the blushing, new-fledged Dick, and Rover gambolled behind the pair, barking loudly, in sympathetic accord.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel
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Indeed, the army of the Northmen was a thing to blush for; for an enemy crushed it by borrowing the aid of a brute.
The Danish History, Books I-IX
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The sensuality of the moment is breathtaking, causing cheeks to blush and pulses to pound.
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Instead, opt for a swipe of pink blusher across the apples of your cheeks for a natural look.
The Sun
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Morning dawned clear as a bell, but Peter wasn't awake in time to take note of its matutinal blushes.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
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A wise man needs not blush for changing his purpose.
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‘You mean you,’ I pointed out, laughing when a faint blush crossed her cheeks.
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The young man blushed when his girl friend called him her sweetie pie.
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No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
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She had on bronze eye shadow, soft rosy blush with a hint of bronze, and clear lip - gloss, and a spritz of perfume.
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A blush reddens the silent girl's cheeks slowly, and Chester drops her fork in concern, eyes darting wildly from the girl to me.
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Singing Catholic church music in a post-Reformation church that fire-breathing John Knox may once have preached in may seem like heresy, but St. Mary's Parish Church never blushed one bit.
Laurence Vittes: "In Scotland, East of Edinburgh": The Lammermuir Festival of 2011
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Almost as with a blush, her long, brown eyes were illumined, as she bridged the years to her lover near half a century dead and dust.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Muriel, being the modest girl that she was, averted her eyes and blushed.
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She blushed scarlet, and saw that her father saw the whole thing, and was turning beat red.
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He took out a large cosmetic kit and went to work applying foundation, working the combination of shades, liner and mascara over her eyes, then finishing with a brush blush.
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She blushed a faint pink, a rosy glow that seemed to suit her.
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Hello, Maria," he said, and she blushed again.
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A leader who engages in indolence “ought to blush with shame to claim a part in them [victories] for his own renown when he had contributed nothing to the task but his voice and his thinking – not even that, seeing that in tasks such as these the counsel and commands which bring men their glory are exclusively those which are given on the spot in the midst of the action.”
An Emperor Should Die On His Feet « So Many Books
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I now find myself being nasty to her and pushing her away to spare my blushes.
The Sun
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I looked back at him smiling with such radiance I could feel myself blush, and a single joyful tear expressed how hard it was for me to leave him behind.
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A wise man needs not blush for changing his purpose.
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Kael felt his cheeks heat up at the mere hint of the heated promise in Sully's voice, and he cursed the blush, shaking his head and looking away to hide it.
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Blend away any creases in your make-up and gently apply the new eyeshadow, highlighter and pencil,(sentence dictionary) the blusher and lipstick.
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Keep any that is showing the slightest sign of blushing on the vine and lay it out on a sunny windowsill.
Times, Sunday Times
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English fizz is a home-produced wine that you can drink without wincing or blushing.
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I now find myself being nasty to her and pushing her away to spare my blushes.
The Sun
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Holden was an original secessionist, and his newspaper, the Standard, printed at Raleigh, was the mouth-piece of the Democracy until 1860, when this unblushing "scallawag," as the Southerners call political renegades, threw his Democratic sentiments out at window, and went in for the Union cause.
The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland
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At first blush, it seems like a typical up-with-teens site - the obligatory boosterish stuff trying to bolster the self-esteem of young girls.
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Which of us wouldn't blush scarlet if we met our 20-year-old selves at a party?
Times, Sunday Times
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A blush is the foolishest thing that can be, and betrays one more than a red nose does a drunkard; and yet I would not so wholly have lost them as some women that I know has, as much injury as they do me.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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In some of their letters, therefore, which he received soon after, they expressed their surprise at his not having been more urgent in his application, and again recommended the blushless assiduity of successful merit.
The Man of Feeling
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His virtues, as well as the vices of Elagabalus, contracted a tincture of weakness and effeminacy from the soft climate of Syria, of which he was a native; though he blushed at his foreign origin, and listened with a vain complacency to the flattering genealogists, who derived his race from the ancient stock of Roman nobility.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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After slapping on layers of foundation and blusher and filling in my eyebrows, we tackled the famous lips.
The Sun
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I love it for its leaves, a steely grey blue warmed with a blush of burgundy.
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at first blush the idea possesses considerable intuitive appeal but on closer examination it fails
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He at once wrote Gutel a missive so thickly interlarded with quotations from the Song of Solomon, from Goethe, Petofi, Heine, and Chateaubriand, that when Kalimann read the billet-doux to the blushing girl her head was quite turned.
Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
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Smooth out sharp edges and make sure your blush blends seamlessly.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tom humbly bowed his head and his cheeks blushed in the embarrassment.
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Keep blusher to a minimum and use either soft pink or peachy tones, depending on your complexion.
The Sun
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They are impudent children, brazen-faced, and cannot blush.
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He nibbled her ear and made her blushed and squeal.
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Presently Rowena returned, all ablush with joyous excitement, and begged for a rereading of the letter.
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In her difficulty, she turned down her eyelids again and blushed over face and neck.
Daniel Deronda
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At first blush it was a classic political coup.
Times, Sunday Times
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Such omissions may have been plausible in the first blush of enthusiasm for reform, but they seem indefensible after many decades of evidence that adventurous teaching is rare. quoted from 《teaching practice: plus que ca change》, p38
Human-Error Processor
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I felt a blush spread over my face - he must think I was awfully clumsy.
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Having a pot of this stuff to hand will save your blushes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
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He turned away to hide his blushes.
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Nars Orgasm blush is certainly an atypical name, although I will leave it to the reader to decide whether it falls under ‘’unexpected descriptive’’ or simply ‘’ambiguous.’’
Balloon Juice » 2005 » July
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I blushed, waiting a beat before slowly trying to wiggle out of his grasp without waking him up.
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With each year that passes, the celebration would become more melancholy - the holiday more of a national blush of shame.
Times, Sunday Times
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I blush very, very, very easily, frequently for literally no reason.
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Those newlyweds were still blissfully unaware blushes and butterflies turn into ritual and routine.
Christianity Today
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Well Miss Mollie I had a good laugh at the Sergt Maj When I told him what you wrotehe is such a modest young man, it made him blush. he is perfectly carried a way and if you send many more such messages to him he will go up the Spot. but I have not much fears about you & his Lordship [unclear: getting] married for this reason. he is so very diffident and your shiness of man; Will make it a matter of impossibility to get up a match With out calling in the Third person & of course that Will be my self, of course, and of course, you Will find out that I will do all in my Power to brake up the match as I have an Intrist in your future Welfare myself.
Augusta County: James H. Blakemore to Mary Anna Sibert, September 11, 1864
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Some of his other wines do not spare the blushes, either.
Times, Sunday Times
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She blushed as he came to, rounding her final swing into a delicate brush of his face with her fingertips.
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She has almost unlimited power and hot men fawning all over her all the time ... and I would really like to try out the werepanther sleeping arrangment * blush*
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 6 days to go!
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Please withhold my name (to spare our blushes!
Times, Sunday Times
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That they could allow such a resource to be lost, and lost for ever, is far more than a dereliction of duty – even a banana republic would blush at the callousness of letting something so good and worthwhile go in the name of short-term cuts Fiona Millar, Education, 12 April.
Letters: School music coda
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It is not the first time he has saved the blushes of the 200m team either.
The Sun
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He was “queer,” she said; and at another time she called him a crank when describing how he sat at the counter and peered at her through his spectacles, blushing and stammering when she took notice of him, and often leaving the shop in precipitate confusion.
THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
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Cleo blushed. She had not meant to imply that he was lying.
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The leader of the LDK, the forever silk scarfed and mellifluous Dr. Ibrahim Rugova, compared himself openly and blushlessly to Vaclav Havel and the Kosovar struggle to the Velvet Revolution.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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‘Thank you, your Highness,’ Sarah whispered, sitting down again, blushing a deeper red.
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The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush.
THE DESCENT
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a kind of falseness in her, she suffered though she had nothing to blush for; more than once an almost irresistible desire sprang up in her heart to tell everything without reserve, whatever might come of it afterwards.
On the Eve
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He's blushing now as I dictate those words, but it's true, and I want you to know.
RESCUING ROSE
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He has occasionally, and with characteristic unblushing swagger, compared himself to Albert Camus.
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They smiled warmly at each other and a faint blush appeared on her cheeks.
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Called on to answer for the unseemly fact of its existence in the midst of these modern centuries, when the world boasts of human freedom and progression, it began by blushing for its hideous aspect and uttering feeble and deprecative apologies.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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She noticed me looking from the other side of the bar, smiled shyly and blushed, before sneaking another glance my way as she turned her back.
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Soon the setting sun makes the mountains blush a bridal pink.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was covered with layers of foundation, concealer, eye liner, blush, mascara and a load of other stuff.
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I can feel a panicky blush spreading over my neck.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides -- and once more I think I blushed, even under the bracken -- on the other side of the lough was my little Lady Kit.
Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798
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Nowdaze, yuuzhaly teh wimmenz can maik teh menz blush !
Mooning teh naybors - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Her friends started clapping loudly, hooting and hollering as Scarlet just blushed.
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After evening out my skin tone with foundation and powder, Veronica dusted on a light bronzer for color and a soft pink blush to give my cheeks a rosy glow.
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Some of the scars were white lines that scarcely showed against pale skin, or blushing pink and red streaks marring its fairness.
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This Government has all the conviction of a blush on Madonna's cheek.
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And he had loads of pink blusher on too.
The Sun
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In the past, victims of severe blushing were prescribed beta-blockers or anti - depressants, or offered counselling, none of which cured the problem.
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The first text of this work I wrote in wax and put together as I was growing old, with my own hands and blearing eyes, fearful indeed and blushing a great deal that my lack of skill must ever reach your ears.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
