blushful
Example Sentences
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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
Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting.
From Time Magazine Archive
While from his ardent look the turning Spring Averts her blushful face.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Ethelberta’s look was somewhat blushful and agitated, as if from some late transaction: she appeared to have been secluding herself there till she should have recovered her equanimity.
From The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy
