aflush

Example Sentences

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Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sweetheart, be my sweetheart   In the mellow golden glow Of earth aflush with the gracious blush   Which the ripening fields foreshow; Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart,   As into the noon we go!

From Songs and Other Verse by Field, Eugene

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

And with him went a maiden, fair As flowers aflush with April air.

From The Tale of Balen by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

High in the hills the solitary thrush Tunes magically his music of fine dreams, In briary dells, by boulder-broken streams; And wide and far on nebulous fields aflush The mellow morning gleams.

From Lyrics of Earth by Lampman, Archibald