How To Use Blushing In A Sentence

  • It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
  • an unblushing apologist for fascism
  • Thank God, there were no lights; I could so feel my face burn up, probably blushing.
  • He quickly drew back and slid towards the opposite edge of the bench, blushing furiously.
  • The cloth has been withdrawn, the General has given the King’s health, the servants have left the room, the guests sit conticent, and so, after a little hemming and blushing, Mr.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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  • I don't wish to blame my children for everything, but they are a major liability when you're prone to blushing.
  • 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
  • It could be amusing if the pols posted unblushing, unedited diaries of what they were really thinking, as real bloggers do.
  • Mr. Slope had to explain, not without blushing for his patron, that there was no champagne.
  • From Thursday on, the television cameras will beam sumptuous shots of loblolly pines and blushing azaleas around the world.
  • Wouldn't he prefer the blushing apple of his eye to do the decent thing?
  • That they make them without blushing is a sign of the power of Tolkien, and the overwhelming quality of his prose. Infectious language
  • 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
  • ‘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.
  • 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
  • It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
  • His effusive praise has left me blushing.
  • They had set up their picnic in a slight shade and Matt peppered her with flattering comments that kept her blushing.
  • 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
  • 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
  • His greatest strengths - the uncompromising determination, sharp-tongued irreverence, and unblushing idealism - turned out to be critical flaws.
  • Nobody knows why some people should be affected by facial blushing so severe that it blights their lives.
  • Claudia shook her head, blushing slightly in embarrassment as all eyes looked at them.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Keep any that is showing the slightest sign of blushing on the vine and lay it out on a sunny windowsill. Times, Sunday Times
  • English fizz is a home-produced wine that you can drink without wincing or blushing.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • ‘Thank you, your Highness,’ Sarah whispered, sitting down again, blushing a deeper red.
  • He's blushing now as I dictate those words, but it's true, and I want you to know. RESCUING ROSE
  • He has occasionally, and with characteristic unblushing swagger, compared himself to Albert Camus.
  • 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
  • Some of the scars were white lines that scarcely showed against pale skin, or blushing pink and red streaks marring its fairness.
  • In the past, victims of severe blushing were prescribed beta-blockers or anti - depressants, or offered counselling, none of which cured the problem.
  • 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
  • They were blushing and shyly ducking their veiled heads. Seminary Boy
  • Ron Curran, a dogged, award-winning investigator and unblushing idealist who helped establish the L.A. Weekly's reputation for hard-edged, relevant local reporting, died this week at 43 in his Huntington Beach home.
  • It was Laoghaire, still blushing pinkly, but determined to join the conversation. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • I was blushing scarlet, but he appeared not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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: -- The Virginians
  • It could be amusing if the pols posted unblushing, unedited diaries of what they were really thinking, as real bloggers do.
  • He cuts straight to the quick, opening his unblushing diary of detestation with this: ‘I hate him.’
  • But Mr. Pen was blushing whilst he made this reply to his unromantical friend, and indeed cared a great deal more about himself still than such a philosopher perhaps should have done. The History of Pendennis
  • Melissa was flustered in her ladylike terror of being come upon uncovered in those disarraying exertions of vigorous sexual informalities and, blushing, wished him, for a change, to finish fast; but she laughed when he did and disclosed the ruse as she was checking his baggage for his medicines and preparing to ride with him to the airport before his flight to Kenosha at the start of his journey. Closing Time
  • She looked at his blushing form next to a stack of books to be shelved.
  • This depreciator and enemy of Vivian was the man who, but a few months before, had been his political _proneur_ and unblushing flatterer, Mr. Wharton. Tales and Novels — Volume 05
  • Hagrid sent him a bunch of earwiggy flowers that looked like yellow cabbages, and Ginny Weasley, blushing furiously, turned up with a get-well card she had made herself, which sang shrilly unless Harry kept it shut under his bowl of fruit. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • A traditional marriage will be most advantageous for the blushing groom, but it's not the oppressive males who are forcing us up that aisle, or shoehorning us into white meringues.
  • And besides, it did not seem reasonable that he should be right — he who had stood, so short a time before, in that same living room, blushing and awkward, acknowledging his introduction, looking fearfully about him at the bric-a-brac his swinging shoulders threatened to break, asking how long since Chapter 24
  • I†™ ve got the Final Fantasy section of the catalog here, ” she offered, pulling out a well-worn and dog-eared magazine that held some of the brothel†™ s most popular products. “Oh, no thank you, ” said the girl, blushing. “I can pick another one on my own. ” She chewed her lip for a moment, then spoke up again timidly. “Do you have, ah, a Spike? ” “Spiegel? 365 tomorrows » Personal Taste : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Then the orchestra strikes up the song currently associated with the star who, blushing faintly, glides swanlike to her table, skin dazzling, diamonds winking, profile at the proper tilt. Lobster Palace Society | Edwardian Promenade
  • In this way the erotic symbolism of urolagnia and coprolagnia is completely analogous with that dynamic symbolism of the clinging and swinging garments which Herrick has so accurately described, with the complex symbolism of flagellation and its play of the rod against the blushing and trembling nates, with the symbols of sexual strain and stress which are embodied in the foot and the act of treading. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • No blush or pink cheeks, she knew she would already be blushing by herself later on.
  • Et tener affectum prodit utrique pudor, &c. Their faces answer, and by blushing say, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Or that we be staid before our betters, or in company we like not, or if anything molest and offend us, erubescentia turns to rubor, blushing to a continuate redness. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • There will be applause, appropriate blushing and downcast eyes on my part, followed by an incredible job offer.
  • It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then she recalled her blushing girlhood days when she had made her first airplane flight with Tom Sr. Golden State
  • The real highlight is an insert-like section, ‘The New Age of Terror,’ which takes an unblushing look at state persecution down through the ages, juxtaposed against the war porn of today.
  • 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
  • Me: Yummy, yummy. * munch munch munch* Rosalind (blushing): IGN Complete
  • She found herself blushing at the compliment and in an effort to deflect his attention from her red cheeks, pulled a clean tissue from her pocket and started to dab at the damp spot.
  • A bouquet or two of the choicest blossoms fell on the unperturbed head of one Mr. Graves, a stony young assistant he usually carried about with him; with a second nosegay he gifted another young gentleman in his train - an interesting fac - simile of himself, being, indeed, his own son; but the full corbeille of blushing bloom fell to the lot of meddling womankind, en masse. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Autonomic arousal symptoms, such as blushing, sweating, trembling, and palpitations, are sometimes prominent.
  • Seeing Frank in brilliant color, clowning for the camera, she felt herself blushing. THE HELLBOUND HEART
  • Passion is blushing furiously across pop, rapidly turning it to ashes in its shame.
  • Howland was a brave man; he had already showed both strength and prowess when, washed overboard in a "seel" of the ship, and carried fathoms deep in mid-ocean, he caught the topsail-halyards swept over with him and clung to them until he was rescued in spite of the raging wind and waves that repeatedly dragged him under; nor in the face of savage foe, or savage beast, or peril by land or sea, was John Howland ever known less than the foremost; but now in face of this angry woman he found naught to say, and blushing and stammering and half laughing fairly turned and ran away, springing up the stairs to the elevated deck cabins, in one of which Elder Brewster and his family had their lodging. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims
  • All women are supposed to be like timid, startled fawns, blushing and casting down their gentle eyes when looked at and running away when spoken to; while we man are supposed to be a bold and rollicky lot, and the poor dear little women admire us for it, but are terribly afraid of us. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
  • It may be only an alteration of the heart-beats or breathing, or a modification in the distribution of blood, such as blushing or turning pale; or else a secretion of tears, or what not. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals
  • As it was radio for which he has a good face I couldn't tell whether he was blushing or smirking when he smugged wittily about the discl;osure of MPs second home allowances. Hugo 'Phonebox Spotter' Rifkind?
  • Well at least he thought she was blushing, the colour on her face was so varied it was hard to tell.
  • Blackberries are snackable berries composed of smaller fruits that transform from blushing Persian red to midnight violet.
  • The blushing bride-to-be had come across as winsome but shy, and - because she seemed to have so little to say for herself - perhaps just a teeny bit dozy.
  • But her reception was worse than that of Macready, for not content with shouts and yells they heaped disgusting epithets on her, and were so vulgar in their ribaldry that she flew in affright from the stage, "blushing," it was said, "even through the rouge on her face. The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873
  • Babbitt gulped down his food, ‘laid unmoving lips against [Myra's] unblushing cheek,’ and left for work.
  • She didn't look at him or answer back, just walked along, gradually responding to him, blushing a little.
  • We backed away from each other like we just got shocked by electricity, both blushing like crazy.
  • He glared at her, and realised with embarrassment that he was blushing, which only made him blush all the more.
  • It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
  • As you might imagine, its name gives a vivid word picture for the color changes, blushing from ivory to pink and finally red when mature.
  • And you look like a blushing bride.
  • But if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Anonymous 4 must be blushing all over.
  • You need in your minds to have an unblushing nudity that can say, ‘I believe in God and I accept his providence’.
  • In the year 1904 there passed from his earthly reward in Pennsylvania a United States senator who had been throughout his lifetime a notorious and unblushing corruptionist. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition
  • Passion is blushing furiously across pop, rapidly turning it to ashes in its shame.
  • I think blushing is more physiological and you can’t he’p it. Is not flirting a feminist statement? « Dating Jesus
  • If you have a business proposal to make to a Japanese woman, there's a slight chance she'll start blushing on you, since the English word "propose" is only used for marriage proposals in Japan, not for other kinds of formal business suggestions. J-List side blog
  • They were blushing and shyly ducking their veiled heads. Seminary Boy
  • Romeo" means "pilgrim to Rome" and Mr. Goold's painstaking direction makes the most of the lovers 'word-playful exchange (in Petrarchan sonnet form, Act 1, scene V) where Romeo says, "My lips, two blushing pilgrims ready stand ... Energetic 'Romeo and Juliet' Triumphs
  • Shamus could feel his ears turning bright red, and a sidelong glance at Amber told him she was blushing just as much as he was.
  • The part of her hair that was above the water was almost completely dry and the hair under the water shyly shielded most of her breasts from view, although part of one blushing pink nubbin peeked out from beneath its dark shroud.
  • And quite clearly devoted to his equally handsome unblushing bride.
  • They were blushing and shyly ducking their veiled heads. Seminary Boy
  • Shortly after the return of the family to Montreal Mr. Hazelton led to the altar with pride the "blushing" Mary Sedley. The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician
  • Crisp rose awkwardly, stammering a greeting and almost chewed off his tongue before falling silent and blushing, his pale features flushed, marred only by the slight bruising from where he had been struck by the man in the city.
  • No one could accuse his crosswords of blushing unseen – not even when they were exiled to a distant outpost in the travel section for a few years – but the poem was more fitting than he knew: "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,/Their sober wishes never learned to stray,/Along the cool sequester'd vale of life/They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Azed: a giant among crosswords
  • Though Pepys gives many similar honest and unblushing accounts of wholesome venality and decadence, much more is concerned with events of the day.
  • A juist keeked inside the bit envelope," came the unblushing reply. The Long Trick
  • his principal opponent unblushingly declared victory before the ballots had been counted
  • What we call diffused light on Earth, the grateful result of refraction, the luminous matter held in suspension by the air, the mother of our dawns and our dusks, of our blushing mornings and our dewy eyes, of our shades, our penumbras, our tints and all the other magical effects of _chiaro-oscuro_ -- this diffused light has absolutely no existence on the surface of the Moon. All Around the Moon
  • He started in unblushing manner, giving a parking ticket to the Press reporter who had gone to interview him.
  • But everything looks so good I can't resist; rosy nectarines, blushing apricots, and crisp, dark cherries.
  • Obeying the dictates of modesty, they usually preferred discreet euphemisms or a blushing silence.
  • Celine Dion was blushing from the cheese and schmaltz when she heard it. Rockstar: INXS – Week 9
  • Todd could feel his cheeks blushing a deep crimson red as Rachel finished his question.
  • Housewives in prosperous areas can select from blushing Georgia peaches, fresh broccoli and plump kiwi, while señoras in less prosperous areas are limited to seasonal domestic fruit, tangerines and melons, and traditional produce like nopales (cactus), green tomatillos and chili peppers. Shopping in Mexico: the tianguis
  • Can I-- can I--" he stammered, blushing, meaning to finish with "direct you," or "show you the way. The Literary World Seventh Reader
  • Then she realized she'd forgotten to kneel down when she came in, and blushing, sank to her knees.
  • Rob lay down next to her, and reached out his hand, still blushing but ignoring his embarrassment and taking her hand in his.
  • From a distance, the blossoms look like pink clouds floating over blushing pools of fallen petals.
  • At other tables, young men and women were clearly out on dates, unchaperoned and unblushing, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
  • ‘Oh, stand up straight,’ the king said, blushing to the tip of his bulbous red nose.
  • He gives me a blushing peek through the curtain at nonconcentric electron shells and light hydrogen atoms where electron and proton are separated by infinity. Passage at Arms
  • We tend to roast off the loins quickly, leaving them that wonderfully blushing pink. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm Going to my Room to be Cool Now and I Don't Want to be Disturbed was Dendy's unblushing crowd pleaser: a thirteen-part suite, set to funky rock 'n' roll classics.
  • They get emotional breakdowns, drug-running and terminal illnesses; we get the cast of Downton Abbey blushing over a footman buffing the wrong tureen. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses
  • The party's hostess is Amanda Brunker, a gossip columnist who, one would have assumed, was chosen for the role because of her unblushing ease with sexual candour.
  • This information aesthetics post has “a light that ‘blushes’ in response to the emotional pitch of a mobile phone. the lamp is activated by the Electromagnetic field (EMF) emitted from a mobile phone & continues blushing for 5 minutes after the call has ended, hereby prolonging the memory of the otherwise transient conversation”. ambient blushing light Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Blushing light
  • When blushing Love first breathes its virgin sigh, The Age Reviewed
  • When they kiss, the stenos hide their blushing faces behind their steno pads.
  • The warm liquid raises the temperature of the mouth and stomach slightly, and because alcohol is a vasodilator, it forces blood to the skin, making us feel warm and blushing on the outside. Meathead Goldwyn: Believe In Glögg: All You Need To Know About Mulled Wine
  • However, I affect supreme ignorance of any possibility of their objecting to our choosing each other's company, and call frequently with the most unblushing impudence.
  • Even so, we may be sure that a young lady whose cheek burned not at sight of the letter she had sealed untidily -- 'unworthily' the Manual calls it -- would anon be blushing for her shamelessness. Yet Again
  • Thou, Idmon, bear my message to the Phrygian monarch in this harsh wording: So soon as to-morrow's Dawn rises in the sky blushing on her crimson wheels, let him not loose Teucrian or Rutulian: let Teucrian and Rutulian arms have rest, and our blood decide the war; on that field let Lavinia be sought in marriage. ' The Aeneid of Virgil
  • She plucked off her blindfold only to discover the blushing footman she had just embraced!
  • Oh, stop it, I'm blushing.
  • His unblushing reversals and evasions are underpinned not only by opportunism and a contempt for truth-telling, but also by conservative convictions and what appears to be a deep rooted reverence for the rich.
  • I get blushing kidneys in front of urinals if there's someone else within five paces of me.
  • She was blushing; her flushed face made her look innocent and naïve.
  • The beautiful blushing bride and smartly attired groom stole the show in what was a great day and night's entertainment.
  • the blushing boy was brought before the Principal
  • I was blushing scarlet, but he appeared not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the very fact that Time can relay such religiose twaddle without blushing or gagging is proof of how far the so-called Mainstream Media -- or M$M, as I've seen it abbreviated on certain blog-warrior sites -- has slid, or as Dizzy Dead would say, slud. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
  • If you have a business proposal to make to a Japanese woman, there's a slight chance she'll start blushing on you, since the English word "propose" is only used for marriage proposals in Japan, not for other kinds of formal business suggestions. J-List side blog
  • As elucidated in unblushing prose in the room notes, it is taking Frank's art from the merely ambitious to the stratospherically inspired.
  • "You can look at this if you'd like," the dark-haired, willowy 14-year-old said, blushing slightly, yet serenely confident.
  • I answered, blushing slightly, my shyness obvious in my soft yet high voice.
  • I was blushing scarlet, but he appeared not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • The blushing Bride has her beautiful bouquet and the proud groom has his bold boutonnière.
  • I was blushing scarlet, but he appeared not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • There doesn't seem to be a blushing smiley on this forum, but trust me, I am all ablush!
  • But what so impudent, so arrogant, so unblushingly disregardful of propriety, as that he should endeavour to select his victim from such a family as the Pallisers, and that he should lay his impious hand on the very daughter of the Duke of The Duke's Children
  • The redbud was burning on the Southern slopes; the turf was springing, fresh and green; dandelions were dappling the grass like golden coins sown by a prodigal; violets were beginning to peep from the shelter of leaves caught along the fence-rows; and some favored peach-trees were blushing into pink. Gordon Keith
  • I was blushing scarlet, but he appeared not to notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's blushing now as I dictate those words, but it's true, and I want you to know. RESCUING ROSE
  • We have intense memories of seeing this film on TV in the early 1970s which, as far as we can recall, was uncut and featured so much unblushing cavorting that we became life long fans of Helen Mirren.
  • Blushing is a matter of the suffusion of blood through the skin of the face for goodness sake - there's a perfectly good explanation of what the process of blushing is - but why is he blushing?
  • When her father dies, she stands "long and craped," with a "black elbow" resting on the chimney-place; while her various methods of blushing take up half the volume. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885
  • 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
  • He started in unblushing manner, giving a parking ticket to the Press reporter who had gone to interview him.
  • 'Certainly,' said Orlando, again blushing so much that his father could not but perceive it – 'certainly I am – am acquainted with her; that is – I know her, to be sure, a little; – indeed, as I live so much under the same roof, it would be odd, and strange, if I did not.' The Old Manor House
  • Now there bloomed hollyhocks and the blushing amber eremurus, more brilliant than the lupin, yellow below and rising to a red color at its tip like a flaming candle. Call Of The Heart
  • The difference is that Richard is so various, so brilliant in his invention, and so appallingly alive in Shakespeare's version, that the audience must realize with a shock that it is attracted to unblushing evil.
  • It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her sister Colette was selling flowers, like several other young girls, but while for the most part these waited on their customers in silence, she was full of lively talk, and as unblushing in her eagerness to sell as a 'bouquetiere' by profession. The French Immortals Series — Complete
  • I followed behind, blushing massively, until we got to school, panting with exhilaration.
  • But Mr. Pen was blushing while he made this reply to his unromantical friend, and indeed cared a great deal more about himself still than such a philosopher perhaps should have done. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy
  • The room's temperature seemed to escalate and a hot flush crept up her face; she was blushing.
  • How her heart beat as Joseph appeared, —Joseph, puffing from the staircase in shining creaking boots, —Joseph, in a new waistcoat red with heat and nervousness, and blushing behind his wadded neck-cloth. IV. The Green Silk Purse
  • I could feel myself blushing and silently praising God that it could not be seen.
  • Mysie Happer made no answer; but blushing scarlet betwixt joy and shame, mutely expressed her willingness to accompany the Southron Knight, by knitting her bundle closer, and preparing to resume her seat en croupe. The Monastery
  • I'm all bows and blushing, fanning and doffing. The Sun
  • I may call it _Lumen crepusculum_, the _Aurora_ of the Moone, or such a kinde of blushing light, that the Sunne causes when he is neere his rising, when he bestowes some small light upon the thicker vapours. The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet
  • Normally nothing ruffled his composure, and yet there he was, blushing like a callow youth at the sight of her ankle.
  • See a lovely passage on the subject of bathing in Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia," where "Philoclea, blushing, and withal smiling, makeing shamefastnesse pleasant, and pleasure shamefast, tenderly moved her feet, unwonted to feel the naked ground, until the touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging come over her body; like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827
  • Jainism, which we describe as atheistic, and the colourless respectable religion of educated Chinese, become in their outward manifestations unblushingly polytheistic. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
  • June 8, 2009 at 6:00 am akshully, ai wuz jus beein silleh, ai lubs spoonrizms, tuu. liek, blushing crow bingle jells an so on The children - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • I suppose, during the utterance of the above three brief phrases, the harmless little osculatory operation has taken place, and blushing cousin Harry has touched the damask cheek of cousin Flora and cousin Dora. The Virginians
  • Iowy on a visit, and broke his leg; yes, Amandy guessed her dyspepsy was somewhat improved since she had tried Graham's Golden Remedy -- it made her feel real lighthearted; Eben (blushing furiously) was to have the Brook Coniston — Volume 04
  • But, although Mary was a blushing and sensitive person, she was not what is commonly called a diffident girl; -- her nerves had that healthy, steady poise which gave her presence of mind in the most unwonted circumstances. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
  • Hartwell declaimed that the blushing girls just out of the schoolroom more than made up for the terror that passed as supper and the antiquated dance styles.
  • At other tables, young men and women were clearly out on dates, unchaperoned and unblushing, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes - a far cry from my first trip back seven years ago when I had scandalised my family by openly smoking.
  • Cassie: * blushs*no body Sam: liar ur looking at whats his name um Chaz thats who ur looking at u like him dont u Cassie: ok yea i like him and don't tell anyone and i wont tell anyone u like Ryan Sam: * blushing* no i dont what makes u think that Cassie: really the way u talk to him the way u smile when ur with him Sam: Ok I like him alright Cassie: i knew it * with Ryan, Chaz, and Christian* Chaz: * looking at Cassie* Ryan: * looking at Sam* Christian: dudes stop staring there gonna notice * they both snap out of it* Ryan: well can u blame me shes hot Chaz: ur just mad cause there isnt a girl here for u Christian: what ever man *??? comes running through the door panting*??? WN.com - Articles related to Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting
  • We two hardbitten newspaperwomen were standing twenty feet away from our idol, giggling and blushing like we were a couple of freshmen girls who'd just met the captain of the high school football team and he'd remembered our names! A lean and hungry look

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