" As I spoke a soft colour suffused her face, and her eyes brightened with a joy and contentment such as no promise of pleasure or indulgence could have inspired.

Never was the sleep even of the poet of the Midsummer Night's Dream visited by a lovelier visionespecially lovely as the soft rose blush suffused her cheeks under my gaze of admiration and delight.

"Why, Marjie!" was her mother's exclamation, but it brought the color to Marjorie's face and suffused her eyes.

As the time drew nigh, a glow of tender, grateful recollection suffused her countenance.

The stories by Hale which have made his fame all show ability of no mean order; but they are characterized by invention and ingenuity rather than by suffusing imagination.

I cannot find words to express what I felt at that moment, and what deadly bitterness suffused my heart.

A dim light from a source which he could not direct suffused the interior of the hall; the door itself was worked open a matter of inches and Donnegan was aware of two keen old eyes glittering out at him.

There was something in the choice of the words, clearcut, decisive, and descriptive; but more in the exquisite modulations of the voice, adding here a tint, there a shade to the picture, and casting over the whole that poetic glamour which, rarely, is imitated in grosser materials by Nature herself, when, just following sunset, she suffuses the landscape with a mellow afterglow.

The sea was like glass, a golden haze suffused the horizon, and a breeze, not strong enough to disturb the waters, was wafted at intervals from the gardens of the Brenta, fitful and sweet.

But, though she's everything that's fair, My captured fancy's focused where A saucy smile suffuses those Two ruby lips.

And death was at hand; the grasp tightened on my breast with that acrid sense of weight and suffocation that the redundant blood suffusing the lungs must needs produce.

The universities and colleges, on the other hand, although they may leave you less efficient for this or that practical task, suffuse your whole mentality with something more important than skill.

All the brightness that had suffused her mind from his presence, again and again, had vanished apparently, leaving not the slightest glow behind.

" "It is not for herself, Monsieur," here interposed M. Arthur, whilst a blush suffused Mlle.

The moon was riding in a broad zone of purple, low in the horizon, her silver forehead somewhat flushed in the general rosiness that seemed to penetrate and suffuse every object.

The day had now come and a pink light suffused the topmost peaks.

If for no other reason, the colour scheme is sufficient to exclude this able artist, and, versatile as he undoubtedly was, it may be questioned whether he ever could have attained to the mellowness and glow which suffuse this picture.

The round red sun dropped out of sight beyond the trees, a pink glow suffused all the ridges; blue shadows gathered in the hollow, shaded purple and stole upward.

The river is once again depicted as a surging flood but it is the master-artist's command of sinuous line and power of suffusing a scene of turmoil with majestic calm which gives the picture greatness.

" Then a silence suffuses the story, And a softness the teller's eye; And the children no further question, And only the waves reply.

"Yes; and on certain days there is a feeling which can only be characterized by the assertion that the opposite parties desire to suffuse the streets and public places with each other's gory blood!"

"Yes," agreed Joe, "and I ought to have had one from" He stopped suddenly, and a blush suffused the tan of his cheeks.

" The hot blood suffused the temples of the indignant wife as she said, "This apartment, madam, I believe is mine?" "Oh, certainly, as long as you can pay for it;" and rudely slamming the door, the landlady departed.

A deep blush suffused her cheek as she answered, "Yes, uncle; and I had a strange dream last night.

He was the last born of his family, and from his earliest memory was accustomed to be commended as such to the care of his elder brothers and sisters: he heard his mother speak of him as her youngest darling with a loving pathos in her tone, which naturally suffused his own view of himself, and gave him the habitual consciousness of being at once very young and very interesting.