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

The first showy splendour of sunset had passed; but the upper sky was still aflush with colour.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

"Yo' jest ax me when th' revenuer's daid, Lem," she returned, looking up, the dimples playing and her small Grecian face aflush with the thought.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

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