Yes," muttered Harry, plunging his hands into the water of the trough, and splashing it over the red flame of a sudden burning blush that kindled in his ash-pale cheeks.
Again the blush came to my cheeks as the thought flashed through my mind, Tomorrow night is prayer-meeting night; I should have been delighted to see him then.
Tillie stood at her side and thereby causing that small worshiper to blush with radiant pleasure.
Tillie, whose eyes were always on the teacher, except when he chanced to glance her way, noted wonderingly the blush that suddenly covered his face and neck at this exclamation of her aunt's.
So while we taste the fragrance of the rose, Glows not her blush the fairer?
My cheeks do blush for thine, As often as thou speakest so; where one true And nobly virtuous spirit for thy best part Loves thee, I wish one, ten; even from my heart!
Strange some lucky fellow has not won her before now," proceeded the other, glancing away to hide the blush that followed his diplomacy.
To misread her blush seemed in his humility a crime.
But all the anxious-visaged man before her noted was a blush that waved like auroral light from the girl's neck to her cheek, from her cheek to her forehead.
Nay, blush not, my darling--when love has been once confessed, there can be no indelicacy in cherishing it to the very death.
Mabel instantly laid aside her heavy crape wrappings, with a blush and half a smile, as she stood as gracefully erect, as if for the artist's hand to sketch.
She gave her horse a light cut with her whip, that his sudden start might give her the chance to conceal the bright blush that overspread her face.
Yes, Julutta's blush when he touched her hand, the liquid brilliancy of her eyes, the pathetic tone of her voice when she talked with him, all this was only friendship.
Suddenly her hand trembled, and the blush on her cheek faded, to be succeeded by a mortal pallor.
True it was, however, that Julutta could not only talk and blush with a grace all her own, but could also observe and combine with a cleverness beyond that of other women.
Ripe and green fruit and blossoms are to be seen at the same time on the orange and lemon trees, and by April the scraggy old olive trees bend beneath the weight of their dull green fruit, just beginning to blush with purple.
Fringing the city, splendid villas and great beautiful gardens bring a blush to the emerald cheek of the rolling environs.
If her gentle, questioning eyes happened to rest on him at such times, something very like a blush rose into his face, and the babbler was silenced with a terribly significant look.
One man looked up, waving his hat as he passed, and she drew in her head with a sudden blush and a dewy light in her eyes, catching her breath.
At last a letter arrived from Ellen, which I now blush to say, gave me inexpressible joy.
I am apt to blush for neglecting improvements that are within my reach, but I readily do without those which are not in our power.
Give me leave to add, that I wish many people, by the declaration of your sentiments in that affair, could learn how to regulate theirs, and blush at the sight of your generosity.
Enthroned In the midst on an emerald bright, Fair Geraldine sat without peer; Her robe was a gleam of the first blush of light, And her mantle the fleece of a noon-cloud white, And a beam of the moon was her spear.
We should not then have to blush for the disingenuousness of the most devoted worshipper of speculative truth, for the servility of the boldest champion of intellectual freedom.
She had to blush as well as to weep for Mrs. Thrale.
I was going to lift her from the ground, when Farsetti told her, in a voice full of indignation, that she should blush to humble herself in such a manner before a man of my description.
You must open your mind to me, my son, and tell me all your thoughts, even if you blush in the recital.
Our present Minister at the Court of Copenhagen, D' Aguesseau, has no virtues to boast of, but also no crimes to blush for.
He could not see the deep blush upon her cheeks, nor would he have understood it had he done so.
A faint blush came to her cheeks and she turned away her head.
Much of that early prophet look she shows, Mixed with her fair espoused blush which glows, As if the ethereal fairy blood were seen; Like a soft evening over sunset snows, Half twilight violet shade, half crimson sheen.
O how would every daisy blush To see them 'mid that earthy crush!
I've been playing fast and loose with you, Loudon; I've deceived you from the first, I blush to own it.
In these circumstances I displayed the two chief qualities of my character on the largest scale--my helplessness and my instinctive love of procrastination--and fell upon a course of action so ridiculous that I blush when I recall it.
I was not, however, in a mood to suffer my flowers of oratory to blush unseen.
Perforce, in this enlightened age, we have much to blush for in the acts of our ancestors.
I walk always now," he said, and a blush was on his cheek at the thought of the time when he rode in his carriage, as though it were a sin not lightly to be laid.
Henry read in her blush the warm current of pure love which flowed from her heart.
With what indescribable pleasure does the lover recognize the blush which a word or an act of his own calls to the face of his new-found love!
Henry failed not to notice the blush which came to her cheek, as she modestly but fervently expressed her gratitude for the noble service he had rendered her.
It is but natural to infer that her first blush was worn at the same time, though Milton attributes blushes to the angels.
No, don't hide your face; I like to see it blush and smile and turn to me confidingly, as it has not done all these long months.
