erubescent

Example Sentences

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They were clever enough to know that her keenest desire would be to keep the disgraceful past from the knowledge of her husband, rather than from a society seasoned these many years to erubescent pasts.

From The Avalanche by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

It was only natural that he should, for he was born and had lived in Brussels all his life, but the accident of birth rather stimulated than calmed my erubescent admiration.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)

As dusk approached, the visitors climbed into the big limousine en route to the train, and rolled through the richest plateau in the world, flooded with the erubescent splendor of a setting sun.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

It was only natural that he should, for he was born in Brussels and had lived there all his life, but the accident of birth rather stimulated than calmed my erubescent admiration.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)

The spark in the hanging lamp had almost expired, and the fire was reduced to a mere handful of coals, casting an erubescent glow over the pew and its occupants.

From The Ghost of Guir House by Beale, Charles Willing