Bethink thee, Maso, that the happiness of this aged man, of Sigismund himself, if thou wilt, for I blush not to say itof a weak and affectionate girl, is in thy keeping.

It is the figure of a little boy who is at peace, according to the late Lord Melville's pronunciation of the words, and who spouts out his water incessantly, reckless of decorum and putting modesty to the blush.

She surveyed her forearm with a little blush, turning it back and forth.

Not so, however, with the kennel or the stables; a gentleman of the first rank, who is not ashamed to give directions concerning the management of his dogs or horses, would blush were he surprised in performing the same office for that being who is to be the heir of his fortunes, and, perhaps, the future hope of his country.

Here I think I have laid before you an open Field for Pleasantry; and hope you will shew these People that at least they are not witty: In which you will save from many a Blush a daily Sufferer, who is very much Your most humble Servant, Susanna Loveworth.

But the contents of the two poems are not nearly so similar as they apparently seemed, at first blush, to Adolf Strodtmann.

It brought a blush to the cheek of heraldry.

No one doubts that 'the modest blush which crimsons the cheek of beauty,' to use the author's words, is caused by a rush of blood to the skin; but how this produces 'a corresponding change in its angle of reflection,' and what such a change has to do with the result, are problems too transcendental for the exact sciences.

I did not reflect that no maidenly blush, no charming confusion, announced my happy destiny,no kiss, no caress, no sign that the heart's citadel had surrendered; but, instead, a calmness, a composure, and a hastening from my presence.

But it put me to the blush.

"What has he been saying?" The colour altered on Bob's face, altered and softened to a veritable blush, and his eyes avoided mine.

I think you will blush even through the unblushing front of manhood, and think what a terrific, unutterable, conceited, intolerable blockhead you were.

Many another species of wild flower which, "born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air," grows in the quiet Cotswold lanes might here be named; but even though at times one may feel, with Wordsworth, "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

But to her amazement Ruth was suddenly blushing a lovely but startling blush and Larry was bending over to examine the hammock-hook in obvious confusion.

"If you think it is all right" she added with rather sudden blush, "for me to stay when I am married or not married and don't know which.

" Whereupon Doctor Holiday, who happened not to observe the blush, remarked that he couldn't see what that had to do with it.

Nearly half a century has passed over my head since the time of which I write, and yet, I swear to you, my old heart glows again, and on my withered cheeks there comes a blush as I call to mind the time when I first met that pure and lovely girl.

exclaimed Mr. Lawrence Bury, with real or well-assumed enthusiasm; but Zelma, replying to his interruption only by a slight blush, went on to say, that she had been taught that poetry, art, and romances were all idle pastimes and perilous lures, unbecoming and unwholesome to a young English gentlewoman, whose manifest destiny it was to tread the dull, beaten track of domestic duty, with spirit chastened and conformed.

Protection from the powerful and savage tribes of Indians within their borders, and who were harassing them with the most terrible of warsand protection from their own negroesprotection from their insurrectionsprotection from their escapeprotection even to the trade by which they were brought into this countryprotection, shall I not blush to say, protection to the very bondage by which they were held.

There is a blush upon thy face to-night Which sheds around a luxury of light!

In the year 1827, the Earl of Dalhousie being Governor-General, a monument was raised in Quebec to Wolfe and Montcalm; and the death they both met at the post of honour is commemorated on the same column,a column on which an Englishman may gaze with pride and a Frenchman without a blush.

"'Rather may ye be proud to call my bairn your wife,' said she; 'for, where a man ceases to be proud o' his wife, upon all occasions, and at all times, or where a wife has to blush for her husband, ye may say fareweel to their happiness.

She entered the room with the dignity of a queen; but the scornful toss of many a young head, and the averted gaze of many a familiar eye, brought the deep blush of wounded feelings to her cheek, ere she reached her seat.

At first blush one would say that there could be no more delicious flavor than that of the wild strawberry.

He knew Janet Whitney would blush as she bowed to him, and that she wouldn't bow to him unless she were compelled to do so because she had not seen him in time to escape; and he felt that she would be justified.