Word: blush
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...piece of superlative insolence. It is so devoid of all common decency that similar conduct would bring a blush of shame to the brazen cheek of a first-class orthodox devil...
Edward of Wales, however, had foreborne to blush on the occasion when the jest was unconsciously perpetrated. Facetious despatches opined that he may have gained fortitude from a consciousness of his right to the motto which encircles his left calf whenever he dons the famed insignia? of the Order of The Garter: "Honi soit qui mal y pense." At any rate he stood at ease, with royal dignity, as those approached who were to confer upon him "the legal right to practice medicine, midwifery and surgery...
Sporting friends of Edward of Wales chuckled and wagged a finger in the direction of his perennial blush...
...rhubarb, there the skin of a black fox or a sable. Only twice does he give away an ermine, once to the Queen of Holland, once to a wench who satisfies him. At Riga he is chased away from the fortifications. At K�nigsberg he makes the Grand Electress blush, argues with Leibnitz, is trained in gunnery. At Berlin he rapes the Duchess of Mecklenburg. In Holland he learns anatomy and ship building. At Vienna he gets word of a revolution in Russia...
...King descended from his car and in a moment stood in the inn doorway. The company within sat transfixed, then stumbled to their feet. The grinning bride began to blush, the bridegroom, a lusty bricklayer, began to stammer...