"Blush" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... book in the lime-walk, or she would go through the gate into the field. She would read all day long, eagerly poring over the book, and only through her looking fatigued, dizzy, and pale sometimes, was it possible to guess how much her reading exhausted her. When she saw me come she would blush a little and leave her book, and, looking into my face with her big eyes, she would tell me of things that had happened, how the chimney in the servants' room had caught fire, or how the labourer had caught a large fish in the pond. On week-days she usually wore a bright-coloured blouse ...
— The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories • Anton Tchekoff
... is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush ...
— Language of Flowers • Kate Greenaway
... our side, and must remain so until the enemy had landed and come to hand-grips with us; and it was imperative that, in order to ensure our own success, as many as possible of our foes should be put hors de combat before the fight became a hand-to-hand melee. It certainly seemed, at the first blush, to be rather cowardly to pelt the poor beggars with grape while they were unable to strike a blow in return; but the feeling was, after all, one of very weak, false sentimentality. Every man of them was an outlaw and, even if not yet an ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood
... true, papa, I saw him do it," she replied, with a slight blush, and sending an uneasy glance around ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... educational facilities made reading and writing come, if not by nature, at least with general compulsion, the making of books has increased to the present output—which would have made the ancient philosopher blush for his ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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