62 collocations for flush

But not for long did this continue, rather it happened contrariwise; and I felt my heart not only glow with sudden beat, but its forces speeded back swiftly to their places, bringing with them a throbbing warmth that chased away my pallor and flushed my cheeks deeply; and, marveling wherefore this should betide, I sighed heavily; nor thereafter was there other thought in my soul than how I might please him.

He did not at once understand the meaning of my question, but Dorothy did, and flushed crimson with anger.

What man" The lie, or rather the suggestion of a lie, flushed my face.

(This last point is rather the reverse of a phrase in Bion's Elegy, p. 64, 'The flowers flush red for anguish.')

" "It isn't that," replied Rolfe, flushing a little, and speaking with slight embarrassment.

The cowboy's face was beginning to flush a terrible purple as the breath was gradually crushed from his body.

Patsy, her face flushing scarlet, stood up and faced the intruders.

A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was: Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

The blood slowly mounted into her face and flushed her forehead and cheeks.

Wherever you go about the frozen country of Lorraine it is a case of flushing soldiers from their shelters.

Her love and eager desire to win him had flushed her clear olive skin with rich red colour; out of her sweet red lips, half parted, came her warm breath on his cheek, more fragrant than wild flowers; and her large dark eyes were gazing down into his with such a tenderness in them that Martin, seeing it, felt a strange little shudder pass through him, and scarcely knew whether to think it pleasant or painful.

As you brush through the long grass and trample the tangled undergrowth, putting aside the sprawling branches, or dodging under the pliant arms of the creepers, you may flush a black or grey partridge, raise a covey of quail, or startle a quiet family party of peafowl, but there are no sweet singers flitting about to make the vaulted arcades of the forest echo to their music.

This brought the thing home to Harvey D. Merle, heading his valiant little band of thinkers, would light a pure white flame to flush America's spiritual darkness.

I saw nothing of the crocodiles which are supposed to infest it, but we flushed several flocks of wild fowl, disturbed by our invasion of their solitude.

Heretofore in the little training he had had Thompson had come up behind him, flushed the birds, and made him drop.

Jack was in the costume which had flushed her curiosity so vividly on the pass and he appeared the same amused, disinterested and wondering traveller who had then come upon strange doings.

" "Mr Croft," said the lady, her face flushing a good deal, "you have no right to speak to me in that way, and attribute such motives to me.

Yet sure, even here, our motives should be known: Rail we to check his spleen, or ease our own? Does injured virtue every shaft supply, Arm the keen tongue, and flush th' erected eye?

" The hot blood flushed the old soldier's hard features to the roots of his gray hair, and his voice trembled as he answered: "Do you intend to insult me, sir?

Jimsy flushed a dark, dangerous flush.

The divine alpenglow flushes the surrounding forest every evening, followed by a crystal night with hosts of lily stars, whose size and brilliancy cannot be conceived by those who have never risen above the lowlands.

Moreover, the different varieties of Setters undoubtedly derive their origin from the same parent stock, since we find them described by the earlier sporting writers as "setting" or "crouching" Spaniels, in contradistinction to the "finding" or "springing" Spaniel, who flushed the game he found without setting or pointing it.

What marvelous new-born glory Is flushing the garden and lawn!

Long, blue, spiky shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them.

ENVOI Sweet Queen who sittest at the heart of spring, My life is thine, barren or blossoming; 'Tis thine to flush it gold or leave it grey: And so unto thy garment's hem I cling Send me a maiden meet for love, I pray.

62 collocations for  flush