aflush

Example Sentences

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Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

High in the hills the solitary thrush Tunes magically his music of fine dreams, In briary dells, by boulder-broken streams; And wide and far on nebulous fields aflush The mellow morning gleams.

From Lyrics of Earth by Lampman, Archibald

And with him went a maiden, fair As flowers aflush with April air.

From The Tale of Balen by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

"Yo' jest ax me when th' revenuer's daid, Lem," she returned, looking up, the dimples playing and her small Grecian face aflush with the thought.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

"Harry Feversham, Harry Feversham," the cry was repeated and repeated, while old General Feversham sat in his chair with a face aflush with pride.

From The Four Feathers by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)