Example Sentences

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Blushes stained the cheeks of Guards officers and Scotland Yard officials royal scarlet last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes, e'er she read the Letter, ask'd your Health, And Joy dispers'd it self in Blushes through her Cheeks.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

That's my sweet Julie! why, upon this face Blushes such daybreak, one might swear the morning Were come to visit Tithon.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey

Blushes played hide-and-seek in the small cheeks that were usually pale.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

What I felt for her I often told her boldly to her face; Blushes used to blush at blushes flushing on in glowing chace!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various