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Flushed in sentence

135 examples of Flushed in a sentence

Miss Peyton and her niece flew, with a rapture that was blessed with a momentary forgetfulness of all but her preservation, to receive Sarah from the trooper; but the vacant eye and flushed cheek restored them instantly to their recollection.
"'Tis fever," answered Frances; "see how glassy is her eye, and look at her cheek, how flushed."
Oh! suppose that son the pride of your age, the solace and protection of your infant children, and then pronounce my brother guilty, if you dare!""What right has Heath to make an executioner of me!" exclaimed the veteran fiercely, rising with a face flushed like fire, and every vein and artery swollen with suppressed emotion.
The countenance of Peyton was flushed, and an air of vexation and disappointment pervaded his manner.
After struggling till both were hot and flushed, each relaxed his strain with watchful caution, and Tom said:"You're a coward and a pup.
Soon he observed that she was tripping gayly back and forth with flushed face and dancing eyes, pretending to be busy chasing schoolmates, and screaming with laughter when she made a capture; but he noticed that she always made her captures in his vicinity, and that she seemed to cast a conscious eye in his direction at such times, too.
A little shamefaced girl lisped, "Mary had a little lamb," etc., performed a compassion-inspiring curtsy, got her meed of applause, and sat down flushed and happy.
I flushed up red to the ears, for I had only a silver fourpenny piece in my pocket.
A hot wave of shame flushed over me, and I sprang up all in a tingle to be off and playing a man's part in the world.
On this he seated himself and looked round with a face that was flushed, and two eyes that blazed like a wild beast's.
I was angry and hurt and sore, and I went out into the open without a word to my father, and climbed up on to the moors to cool my flushed face.
His fingers gave slight twitches, and his cheeks became flushed.
"That will be fine," answered Camille, flushed with joy.
This sort of wound that lived upon him, which became active, flushed, and biting at the slightest trouble, frightened and tortured him.
Mr. Pickwick, let me go, sir!'It was a beautiful sight, in that moment of turmoil and confusion, to behold the placid and philosophical expression of Mr. Pickwick's face, albeit somewhat flushed with exertion, as he stood with his arms firmly clasped round the extensive waist of their corpulent host, thus restraining the impetuosity of his passion, while the fat boy was scratched, and pulled, and pushed from the room by all the females congregated therein.
A blow was struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks.
His face flushed and darkened.
Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with astonishment.
Her lips, too, were bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying.
Confess, Marianne, is not there something interesting to you in the flushed cheek, hollow eye, and quick pulse of a fever?"
Kate flushed, but did not attempt to set the child right.
Besides, d’Artagnan passed the evening with me.""Well," said the cardinal, "everybody seems to have passed the evening with you.""Does your Eminence doubt my word?" said Treville, with a brow flushed with anger.
His dark brows knitted and his face flushed to a dusky red as he spoke.
His face was flushed with anger, and he held an old and dusty boot in one of his hands.
Its master had risen and was staring with flushed cheeks and shining eyes.
Stapleton had abandoned the chase and came back to us breathing hard and flushed with his exertions.
Her face was beautifully flushed with her exertions, and she held her hand to her side.
I assure you my cheeks flushed at the very thought.
His face was flushed with anger and his brows were wrinkled, like one who is at his wit's ends what to do.
Her eyes and hair were of the same rich hazel colour, and her cheeks, though considerably freckled, were flushed with the exquisite bloom of the brunette, the dainty pink which lurks at the heart of the sulphur rose.
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