The demon's rubescent eyes fixed malevolently on the mage. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Victorious]
From those gaping jaws a gout of rubescent flame swept across the captives. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
The line of tail lights snaked over the hills and into the woods, the whole thing inching along like a rubescent worm. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
And I once a rubescent socialist ... best parlor type. From Wordnik.com. [Black Oxen] Reference
Guards, who was conspicuous in a uniform as rubescent as his patronymic. From Wordnik.com. [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference
His face looked so fierce and rubescent under his vast hat, that he put me in mind of a large coal, the lower half of which was in a state of combustion. From Wordnik.com. [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference
The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914] Reference
Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma. From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Bookshop] Reference
At this mild reproof Mister BAGSHOT became utterly rubescent, murmuring excuses which I did not catch; and I, perceiving that this object lesson of kindness to animals from an Oriental had strongly affected all the shooters, patted the hound on the forehead, consoling him with some chocolate I carried in my cartridge sack. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
On the introduction of this primordium of entity into the uterus the irritation of the liquor amnii, which surrounds it, excites the absorbent mouths of the new vessels into action; they drink up a part of it, and a pleasurable sensation accompanies this new action; at the same time the chemical affinity of the oxygene acts through the vessels of the rubescent blood; and a previous want, or disagreeable sensation, is relieved by this process. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
Dishin 'it on the rubescent rug. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
Kindles and flashes with rubescent gleams. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3] Reference
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