"Blushing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soul to hate To see him thus, all gentleness to woo? In tenderest tone he tells his deeds of war, With blandest feeling shows the ghastly scar He joyed to take, that he might win his bride, His own, his blushing one—the dark-eyed ...
— The Emigrant - or Reflections While Descending the Ohio • Frederick William Thomas
... let me put an end unto my theme: There was an end of Ismail—hapless town! Far flash'd her burning towers o'er Danube's stream, And redly ran his blushing waters down. The horrid war-whoop and the shriller scream Rose still; but fainter were the thunders grown: Of forty thousand who had mann'd the wall, Some hundreds breathed—the ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... her eyes—ah, the heroic little figure! can't you see her? There was a great burst of acclamations, and she sat down blushing, for it was not in her delicate nature ...
— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - Volume 1 (of 2) • Mark Twain
... to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good, easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little, wanton ...
— McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey
... irresistibly drawn to him again, and the supplication, as she lifted her blushing face, and the yielding, ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
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