"Redden" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and unsympathetic and critical reader remark of the unmaidenly lack of reserve which prompted those last few lines? What will Marion herself say when she hears of them as thus ruthlessly dragged to the bar of public opinion? Poor Marion! Her cheeks will redden, her eyes flash and suffuse, her heart beat like a trip-hammer, her white teeth set, her soft lips will firmly close. She will be annoyed. She may admit that in cold blood—under any other circumstances—she would never have so committed herself, and that nothing but the thought of ...
— Marion's Faith. • Charles King
... puffed and smoked in silence for a while. The rings of smoke went up incessantly. His face had begun to redden, his fingers to thrill to the tip with pulsing blood. With it went his final contingency of reserve, and under it he dropped to the level of ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... the long low mattress lie— A nest of little souls, it heaves with dreams; In the high chimney the last embers die, And redden the dark ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... times grow colder; Leaves of the creeper redden and fall. Was it a hand then clapped my shoulder?— Only the wind by the chapel wall! Dead leaves drift on the lute ... So, fold ...
— The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" • Q
... that shock like muffled thunder, Booming from the Pyrenees! Both are down—the man is under— Now he struggles to his knees, Now he sinks, his features leaden Sharpen rigidly and deaden, Sands beneath him soak and redden, Skies above him spin and veer; Through the doublet torn and riven, Where the stunted horn was driven, Wells the life-blood—We are ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon
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