"Blush" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with a blush upon his face (for the day was just beginning to dawn, so that I could see him): Unless this differs in some way from the former instances, I suppose that he will ...
— Protagoras • Plato
... He was, as it were, in the East. And the immanence of a third person, the Italian, accepting naturally and completely the code of the little world, only added to the charm. The Italian was like a slave, from whom it is necessary to hide nothing and never to blush. ...
— The Pretty Lady • Arnold E. Bennett
... but not in great numbers, in the dry districts in the north of Ceylon, where it frequents the trees, in slow pursuit of its insect prey. Whilst the faculty of this creature to blush all the colours of the rainbow has attracted the wonder of all ages, sufficient attention has hardly been given to the imperfect sympathy which subsists between the two lobes of the brain, and the two sets of nerves which permeate the opposite sides of its frame. ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... The blush on her cheek burnt deeper as she tossed her head proudly back, and said straight out, without any show of fence ...
— The Crack of Doom • Robert Cromie
... Landrecourt we found the Eager Soul, a badly scared young person—but tremendously plucky! And mad—say, that girl was doing a strafing job that would have made the kaiser blush! And the fine part of it was, that its expression was entirely in repression. There was no laugh in her face, no joy in her heart, and we scarcely knew the sombre, effective, business-like young person who greeted us. And then across the court we saw ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White
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