blushful
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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
O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth.”
From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan
And she with me, so cold and coy, Seemed like a maid bereft of sense; But in the crowd, all life and joy, And full of blushful impudence.
From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson
