blushful
Example Sentences
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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
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
No one knows what sweet thoughts are his as Chloe flutters through the room, blushful and startled, or as a fresh beaker full of the warm South glows between his amorous eye and the sun.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
He smiled with a blushful but ingratiating dignity.
From Counsel for the Defense by Charles M. Chapman
