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Example sentences for "ruddiness"

Lexicographically close words:
rudder; rudderless; rudders; ruddier; ruddily; ruddled; ruddy; rude; rudely; rudeness
  1. The florid ruddiness of his fleshy face faded to a pallor more cadaverous than the unhealthy grey of Louis' sunken cheeks as he remembered Molembrais.

  2. I only know what he told me," answered Saxe doggedly, but the fresh ruddiness of his face had faded, and he sucked at his lips as if they had grown suddenly dry.

  3. His admiration for old English poetry was due to the "ruddiness in its cheek and the red corpuscles in its veins.

  4. Our literature needs Anglo-Saxon iron, -- there is no ruddiness in its cheeks, and everywhere a clear lack of the red corpuscles.

  5. Her features are deeply tanned by the sun, but the velvet down of well-preserved youth and the natural ruddiness of perfect health lend a peculiar loveliness to that extraordinary countenance.

  6. When he came in again ruddiness of sky had given place to the golden glow of sunrise and the morning sun tinted the mountain tops.

  7. John Calvin Campbell was a beautiful child, with strangely clear, deep blue eyes, close clinging golden curls, a complexion fair to paleness, though tinted to a delicate ruddiness by exposure.

  8. For the other kind of ruddiness which is settled in the face with pimples, &c.

  9. His face was blotched by ruddiness resembling that of raw meat.

  10. Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.

  11. Defn: The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.

  12. He looked thin, yet that might be owing to his highly clerical coat, and some of his rural ruddiness was gone, but there was no want of health of form or face, only the spareness and vigour of thorough working condition.

  13. My health returned to me, though I still retained an air of grief, dejection, and languor, which taking off from the ruddiness of my country complexion, rendered it rather more delicate and affecting.

  14. The fire, that low, leaping ruddiness against a gray boulder, is the best fire she "ever personally conducted.

  15. The events of the few preceding days had so worked upon his nervously thoughtful nature that the blue orbits of his eyes, and the mere spot of scarlet to which the ruddiness of his cheeks had contracted, seemed the result of a heavy sickness.

  16. He looked a little thinner than when he had started upon his ill-starred cruise, and his usual ruddiness was not as yet fully restored; but he was in capital condition, and a good deal more than ready for Miss Lee to come on.

  17. The firelight played over her soft light gown; she had taken off her gloves and the ruddiness gleamed on her arms and her long throat and on the sheen of her hair.

  18. In the midst of her chill misery she noted that shadow was settling on the river, and all the cheerful ruddiness of western light was gone.

  19. The window slits let in some moonlight of a bluish quality, but the larger part of this wide space lay in shadow until Jacques sent over it the ruddiness of a revived fire.

  20. You say that moderate drinking quickens the pulse and adds ruddiness to the countenance, and that, therefore, you have some reason to believe that it is a source of health.

  21. It produces thus an increased quickness in the beating of the heart, and ruddiness of countenance which are not signs of health, but of disease.

  22. It was the end of an autumn day, twilight had begun to come down on the yard in Lipovka, and the linden grove, in a black line, cut through the evening ruddiness glowing in the western heavens.

  23. The man had incipient consumption, which brought excessive ruddiness to his face, a glitter to his eyes, and a short, rasping cough from his breast.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruddiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.