aflush

Example Sentences

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Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

All aflush, she looked at him so angrily and spoke with so much spitefulness, that in his astonishment he did not even feel offended by her.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman

There was a quick, frightened gasp, and the girl's face, all aflush with a new, sweet fearfulness and wondering confusion, vanished behind a ponderous swinging door.

From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

"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

"My love!" interpolated his lordship hurriedly, his florid face aflush.

From The Lion's Skin by Sabatini, Rafael