Do we say infuse or suffuse

infuse 182 occurrences

I will nurse the remembrance of your steadiness and quiet, which used to infuse something like itself into our nervous minds.

Let it stand to infuse for a month, when strain it off quite clear, and it will be fit for use.

Crush the seed by pounding it in a mortar; boil the vinegar, and when cold, pour it to the seed; let it infuse for a fortnight, when strain and bottle off for use.

Pound or cut the chilies in half, and infuse them in the vinegar for a fortnight, when it will be fit for use.

Put the cream into a very clean saucepan (a lined one is best), with the lemon-peel, pepper, and thyme, and let these infuse for 1/2 hour, when simmer gently for a few minutes, or until there is a nice flavour of lemon.

Put the rinds into a bottle with the brandy, and let them infuse for 24 hours, when they should be strained.

Add vinegar to them until the bottle is full; cover closely to exclude the air, and let it infuse for a fortnight.

They will be for either, or both, according to circumstances, according to the personalities that are in power, according to the mood that politicians and journalists, and the interests that suborn them, have been able to infuse into a nation.

His purpose was to [diffuse] infuse literary curiosity by gentle and unsuspected conveyance

We will not fail them, beloved!" He clasped her close, holding her firmly, as if to infuse her with his faith.

send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose &c (interchange) 148; displace &c 185; throw &c 284; drag &c 285; mail, post. shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.

[Med.], enema, glyster^, lavage, lavement^. V. insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject &c 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue. graft, ingraft^, bud, plant, implant; dovetail. obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce^ &c (make a hole) 260

It was in reality the lull before the storm and the epoch of political mediocrities, an age like that of the government of Walpole in England; and no Chatham was found in Rome to infuse fresh energy into the stagnant life of the nation.

I tied up the pony, ordered my men to pull down a couple of huts in the centre, and tried to infuse some energy into the villagers.

Once you rouse a man, and infuse some spirit into him, he may resist his disease, but it is a hard fight to get him to TRY.

In conclusion permit me to invoke that Power which superintends all governments to infuse into your deliberations at this important crisis of our history a spirit of mutual forbearance and conciliation.

What resistance can the infant make to the insidious serpents, which thus, as it, were, steal into its cradle, and infuse their poison into its soul?

In short, this Professor is to give the Society their Stiffening, and infuse into their Manners that beautiful Political Starch, which may qualifie them for Levees, Conferences, Visits, and make them shine in what vulgar Minds are apt to look upon as Trifles.

General Walker, in a speech which he made a few days after to infuse new spirit, said that these were the cowards,whose absence was beneficial, and from whom it was well that the army should be purged.

Says the honorable gentleman, for the general welfareit will infuse strength into our system.

Says the honorable gentleman, for the general welfareit will infuse strength into our system.

Let us hope increasing intercourse may infuse a little vitality into them.

And, indeed, why should we write, "I cannot go, Thou canst not go, He cannot go?" Apart from the custom, we have just as good reason to join not to canst as to can; and sometimes its union with the latter is a gross error: as, "He cannot only make a way to escape, but with the injunction to duty can infuse the power to perform.

"Did Brahma first paint her and then infuse life into her, or did he in his spirit fashion her out of a number of spirits?" he exclaims.

I value every custom which tends to infuse poetical feeling into the common people, and to sweeten and soften the rudeness of rustic manners without destroying their simplicity.

suffuse 13 occurrences

The took in an abandoned barn. (1) Refund, confound, foundry, confuse, suffuse, profuse, refuse, diffuse; (2) fusion, effusion, transfuse.

Its suffrages are not for the cool, collected observer, whose eyes no glitter can dazzle, no mist suffuse.

"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!"

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.

On those occasions, Lucy would smile, and sometimes a slight blush would suffuse her face; for I could see she well understood the impulse which would so suddenly carry me off to the days of my boyhood and boyish affection.

Ye gaze upon that fair young brow, Where death's pale shade is resting now; Well, well may grief suffuse your eyes, Yet let no murm'ring thought arise, To stain with guilt affection's tear, Which falls upon the loved one's bier.

" The vacant seat at table, the return of their usual hour of arrival, all places and all things remind us of the departed one, and bring up harrowing remembrances of the past, that add deeper pangs to our sorrow, and fill our hearts with more unendurable anguish, and suffuse our cheeks with more scalding tears, as the stern reality presses upon us, that it always must be thus.

Then the second he turned her way her eyes would drop and a dull red would suffuse her face and neck.

But, only let us conceive, the shame and dismay which would now suffuse the countenance of one of these worshippers of Pompeian Isis, could he but behold the deception which had been practised upon him unsuspectedly!

'Tis something, in the dearth of fame, Though link'd among a fetter'd race, To feel at least a patriot's shame, Even as I sing, suffuse my face; For what is left the poet here?

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.

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.

SPIRITUAL, THE, the fruit of the quickening and abiding action of a higher principle at the centre of the being, operating so as to suffuse the whole of it, pervade the whole of it, to its utmost limits, which, seating itself in the heart of the thoughts and affections, works and weaves itself into all the life tissues and becomes part and parcel of the very flesh and blood.

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