Word: blushes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...womanhood. We do not wish to believe that even in the ranks of the Preps., among whom the reported author is found, could exist a student so disloyal to the college, so untrue to all her better instincts. If it is true, it is a truth to make one blush for her sex." Just think of it! "Blush for her sex!" I don't believe an Amazonian virago could have felt more virtuous indignation if the postman had handed her a billet-doux without a coat-of-arms on the envelope...
...many yearly go down under the terrible ordeal of examination, with such heavy odds against them. Appalled by blueness as they commence their work, always surrounded by it, an odor and a tint of blueness in the air, must not the crimson, thus assailed, inevitably yield its own, blush a deeper crimson for very shame at such surroundings...
Full many a crib is born to blush unseen...
...distinctly, distinctly," he replied. And he turned away his face with a blush...
When she next opened her eyes it was broad day. The fire was out, and looking through the branches that formed her door, she could see the brook, rippling silver-bright in the morning sun. She remembered her situation with a smile and a blush; and went out to find her protector...