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

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

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

By fits, like welling rocks, the song Spouts of a blushful Spring in flow.

From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George

He smiled with a blushful but ingratiating dignity.

From Counsel for the Defense by Chapman, Charles M.