"Blushing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... snatching her ideal too. The death of nuptial joy is sloth: To keep your mistress in your wife, Keep to the very height your oath, And honour her with arduous life. Lastly, no personal reverence doff. Life's all externals unto those Who pluck the blushing petals off, To find the secret of the rose. - How long she's tarrying! Green's Hotel I'm sure you'll like. The charge is fair, The wines good. I remember well I stay'd once, with her Mother, there. A tender conscience of her vow That Mother had! ...
— The Angel in the House • Coventry Patmore
... pair faced once more, much of the old feelings came back, and pretty Marion found herself blushing deeply, she could not ...
— Young Captain Jack - The Son of a Soldier • Horatio Alger and Arthur M. Winfield
... some business, and thence to my uncle's and there dined very well, and so to the office, we sat all the afternoon, but no sooner sat but news comes my Lady Sandwich was come to see us, so I went out, and running up (her friend however before me) I perceive by my dear Lady blushing that in my dining-room she was doing something upon the pott, which I also was ashamed of, and so fell to some discourse, but without pleasure through very pity to my Lady. She tells me, and I find true since, that the House this day have voted that ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... people round her. Lord William was resplendent in a button-hole and new dress-clothes; Lady William had put on her best gown and some family jewels that never saw the light except on great occasions; and when Marcia entered, the friendly affectionate looks that greeted her on all sides set her blushing once more, and shamed away the hobgoblins that had been haunting her. She was taken in to dinner by Lord William and treated as a queen. The table in the long, low dining-room shone with flowers and some fine old silver which the white-haired butler had hurriedly ...
— The Coryston Family • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... make off, but concluded to stand my ground since they had seen me, and so bade them 'Good morning'. Master Ratsey jumped to his feet as nimbly as a cat; and if he had not been a man, I should have thought he was blushing too, for his face was very red, though that came perhaps from lying on the ground. I could see he was a little put about, and out of countenance, though he tried to say 'Good morning, John', in an easy tone, as if it was a common thing for him to be lying in the churchyard, ...
— Moonfleet • J. Meade Falkner
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