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

Expression varied from abstractions in wood and rubber to the blushful romanticism of Victorian candy-box painting.

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 cold, she settled, and she, as usual shy and blushful, could only have seemed stupid to him.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

The familiar frequenters of Venner's eyed in cold silence his entrance, his blushful wait and his hurried exit.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton