blushful
Example Sentences
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Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Mrs. Russell's lecture was cancelled and the Student Forum breathed more freely, having escaped the blushful consequences of its own temerity by a road which did not contravene Wisconsin's broad avenue of free speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
To Webb's oenology students, wine is not the "blushful Hippocrene" extolled by Keats but a complicated blend of ethyl alcohol, polyphenols and a hundred other compounds that must be subjected to decidedly unromantic analysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was very ceremonious, shy, ungainly and blushful.
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
The exquisite rose had not yet opened its leaves so as to show its heart; but its fragrance and blushful pride were there in perfection.
From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller
