The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
I again felt the suffusion of pleasure in my body. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer Of Gor]
His scar became almost invisible in rosy suffusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
There was both contusion and suffusion of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
Melanism: an abnormal or unusual darkening: a suffusion with blackish. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
The rapidity of the suffusion shows the terrible nature of his injury. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
An unbidden suffusion for one moment both softened and brightened her eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
A low-voltage landscape spotlight created the desired level and suffusion of light. From Wordnik.com. [Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed] Reference
The mind is a suffusion of physical heat, it is not separated, it is kept submerged. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
Imagination exists in him, not as a separable faculty, but as a pure vital suffusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864] Reference
Its suffusion with purity of motive is completely blinding to those within the system. From Wordnik.com. [Stern Review « Climate Audit] Reference
The suffusion of color in her face receded and it returned to its normal porcelain hue. '. From Wordnik.com. [Best Kept Secrets]
She stared ahead, and slowly a change came over her face, a change like the suffusion of dawn. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
Only a dull suffusion of color high on the slanted cheekbones betrayed his state of mind in any way. From Wordnik.com. [River Of Desire]
At this declaration the colour vanished from her cheeks, which, however, soon underwent a total suffusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves] Reference
To the south there was a glow in the sky, a red suffusion that marked where Partisans were spending the dark hours. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
But this particular Saturday evening brought no such suffusion of bliss to Fessenden's, -- if, indeed, any ever did. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The cold light of morning had succeeded to night and there was already, in the sky, the red suffusion of the coming sun. From Wordnik.com. [Dombey and Son] Reference
A faint suffusion passed over his face, but after the pause of a moment, he extended his hand with a smile, while he said. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Any residual weariness she had felt when she entered the chamber had fled, vanquished by this glorious suffusion of magic. From Wordnik.com. [Memory of Fire]
Its mode of transmission has been by the suffusion of the eye, the cheek, the lip, the manner, not by dead and unsymbolical letters. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
A strong suffusion overspread the veteran's face as he pronounced the words; he was evidently overcome by the possibility of the stigma. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
In the west there was a great suffusion of cold, red light, which made the sides of the little valley look only the more rugged and dusky. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Square] Reference
He was powerfully moved; his countenance changed from its usual pallidness to strong suffusion; his hands rather tossed than waved in the air. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
Hence the glorious suffusion of light which the ardent desire of men brought over the face of Europe in the latter half of the fifteenth century. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
And, smile not, if I add that the rosy tint of morning reminds me of a suffusion which will never more charm my senses, unless it reappears on the cheeks of my child. From Wordnik.com. [Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark] Reference
However, all this swelling and suffusion of blood is a good sign. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots] Reference
There was also suffusion and ecchymosis about the neck and shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Hepzibah, patiently, but reddening with a painful suffusion of shame. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
Turning gently away, he glided, in a suffusion of grateful tears, out of the apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
She lifted both hands to her cheeks, which were beautiful with a quick suffusion of high colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Flirt] Reference
Calista blushed -- but this stranger, so much like themselves, could not see the rosy suffusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Mouse] Reference
Since daybreak a mist had crept over the sky; it thinned the sunlight to a suffusion of grey and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Thyrza] Reference
The sunset clouds were still red without; a vague roseate suffusion was visible through the falling water. From Wordnik.com. [The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895] Reference
She had the rich tint of a quarter-breed, lightened in her case by a constant suffusion which gave her steady color. From Wordnik.com. [The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899] Reference
Nevertheless, the cheeks of Monimia, who was altogether unaccustomed to such familiarities, underwent a total suffusion; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Volume 02] Reference
Diana vowed she adored him; and with a face of laughter in rosy suffusion, put Sol for Redworth, Redworth for Sol; but, watchful of. From Wordnik.com. [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference
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