blushful

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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

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

You and I together shall mingle joyous memories of "A draught of the Warm South, The true, the blushful Hippocrene."

From The Postmaster's Daughter by Tracy, Louis

Sally leaned back all pinksome and blushful, and while she laughed at him she "Carelessly tossed off a curl That played on her delicate brow." exactly like Mary Dow in McGuffey's Third.

From Laddie; a true blue story by Stratton-Porter, Gene