Use flush in a sentence
Sentences ending with flush
- While the toastmaster was speaking, the members saw Mr. Clemens's eyes begin to sparkle and his cheeks to flush. [5]
- The horses began to lather and the men to flush. [2]
- She whispered and said, "Put up those wicked cards this minute!--two pair and a jack, you numskull, and the other fellow's got a flush! [5]
- Face a general red flush. [5]
- Not another syllable accompanied it, but the expression with which it fell upon her ear revealed so plainly what the young pirate felt for and expected from her that, in spite of the darkness which concealed her, she felt her face flush. [10]
Sentences containing flush two or more times
- A flush crimsoned his face to his hair--a singular flush of shame, of embarrassment, of guilt--a guilt not his own. [11]
More example sentences with the word flush in them
- She was sick with regret, vexation, and shame; at the first flush, death--for Frank--had been preferable to this. [11]
- Suddenly I discovered with a flush that she was looking at me intently, without embarrassment, but with an expression that seemed to hint of humor in the situation. [9]
- His eyes stared wildly at Dubarre, to whose face the flush of wine had come, whose look was now maliciously triumphant. [11]
- Then the wife went to that which had been her home: Heldon did not go thither until the first flush of morning. [11]
- His paleness gave way to a flush as like her own as could be. [11]
- The Governor's announcement was such a shock that he choked and coughed, the crumbs flying in all directions; and another pint of canary must be taken to flush his throat. [11]
- That wild Lamperi was really impertinent to-night, and the abbe said things--things--" The old lady's large eyes were sparkling vinously, and her fan waved rapidly to and fro to cool the flush on her cheeks. [10]
- This lady's face was not one that could flush easily; it belonged to a temperament as even as her person was symmetrically beautiful. [11]
- Murray Bradshaw's face was calm as usual, but there was a flush on his cheek, and Master Gridley saw the slight but unequivocal signs of excitement. [6]
- At rare intervals--but very rare--there were clouds in our skies, and then the setting sun would gild and flush and glorify this mighty expanse of scenery with a bewildering pomp of color that held the eye like a spell and moved the spirit like music. [5]
- A flush crept up his face. [11]
- Sometimes as the two talked Angele would join them; and then there was a sudden silence, which made her flush with embarrassment, anxiety or anger. [11]
- At last she turned and looked him in the eyes, the flush gone from her face. [11]
- I looked forward to the day when I would take you to my 'tan', and there we two would--" A flush sprang suddenly to Fleda Druse's face, then slowly faded, leaving it pale and indignant. [11]
- A colour came to her face, as though from strong flush of feeling, then she turned to him again, and answered steadily: "Yes, he is happy now. [11]
- She seemed about to do so, but the flush faded from her brow, and she said, simply: "I care for Val most, father. [11]
- I now come to a phase of the Mississippi River life of the flush times of steamboating, which seems to me to warrant full examination--the marvelous science of piloting, as displayed there. [5]
- The way lay through a parched tract of rocky desert, and the further they went the more intense was that wonderful flush in the west, till day broke behind the travellers and the glory of the sunrise quenched the vividness of its glow. [10]
- By and by they began throwing white roses, and that morning flush passed away. [6]
- The first flush, the raging of Venters's wrath, passed, to leave him in sullen, almost cold possession of his will. [13]
- When Jasmine read the note Al'mah had sent her, a flush stole slowly over her face, and then faded, leaving a whiteness, behind which was the emanation, not of fear, but of agitation and of shock. [11]
- A flush tinged the livid features of the invalid, prematurely aged monarch, and at a wave of his hand the foster-mother left him and his companion alone with the little one. [10]
- Then he read the letter and a flush swept over his face, making its red almost purple. [11]
- Iberville coloured, but the flush passed quickly and left him unembarrassed. [11]
- Her face had the flush of honest anger. [11]
- As time passed, the flush of expectancy waned; the heat was great, the waiting seemed endless. [11]
- Jean Jacques saw the face of the Clerk of the Court flush and then turn pale as he read the letter. [11]
- When he saw the cause of the demonstration he had a sudden flush of anger. [11]
- In the marshes the cat-tails and the faint flush of color on the alders and soft maples gave a character to the low shore, and the gentle rise of the hills from the water's edge combined to make a sweet and peaceful landscape. [4]
- Venters noted, however, that the burning flush had faded into the former pallor. [13]
- She had thought that his flush meant anger, and she was surprised at the quiet tone. [11]
- She looked graver than the day before, while heavier shadows under her eyes and the deep flush on her cheeks reminded Wilhelm of Belotti's fears for her health. [10]
- A flush passed swiftly across his face and faded away, as, with quick sensitiveness, he glanced at Nicolas and another passenger, a fat priest. [11]
- Again a flush swept up Charley's face and seemed to blur his sight. [11]
- Suddenly a flush swept over his face, and he reached out and took both her hands. [11]
- A sensitive chill swept all over him, making his flesh creep, and a flush sped over his face from chin to brow. [11]
- She also was sure that when the first flush of his anger and disappointment had passed, and he came to view this thing with cooler mind, he would repent deeply--for a whole lifetime. [11]
- Then, with a sudden flush, he spoke of Napoleon. [11]
- If Jean Jacques started with faint doubt regarding anything, and allowed himself betimes the flush of a declaration of belief, there could be but one end. [11]
- A hot flush spread over my face. [9]
- A flush crept slowly up Iberville's face from his chin to his hair, then he sighed, and presently, out of all reason, laughed. [11]
- He had welcomed Sinnet with a sullen eagerness, and had told him in short, detached sentences the dark story of a wrong and a waiting revenge, which brought a slight flush to Sinnet's pale face and awakened a curious light in his eyes. [11]
- He was quite silent after this, still wearing the slight flush on his cheek. [6]
- The Pasha's face showed curious incredulity; under the pallor of the Lost One's a purplish flush crept, stayed a moment, then faded away, and left it paler than before. [11]
- And afterwards, when she had parted from him, and gone to her little room, the hot flush again came to her neck and brow, and she saw his pale, spiritual face, and could hear the unwonted tenderness of his voice. [4]
- They could not see his face, but they could see the face of Suzon Charlemagne, and they misunderstood the light in her eye, the flush on her cheek. [11]
- She heard the scrunch of his heels upon the gravel, the clank of his sword upon the rocks, and looked up with a flush, her needle poised; for none should know of her presence in this place save her father. [11]
- Instantly they became riveted, and then a deep flush swept slowly up her face and burned into her splendid hair. [11]
- A nearer view reveals a flush of green; nature is already striving to heal. [9]
- But they were related only in name, in some distant, irreconcilable way--in a way which did not warrant the sudden scarlet flush that flooded her face. [11]
- Presently, however, it recovered its natural force and rhythm, and a faint flush came back to the pale cheek. [6]
- Brunette, with a rare-ripe flush in her cheeks. [6]
- He was a purist at law, but he was a purist in life also, and not because the flush of youth had gone and his feet were on the path which leads into the autumn of a man's days. [11]
- The young mother's pretty face still glowed with the flush of fever. [10]
- This woman indeed possessed enthralling charms, and he felt the slight flush that suffused his cheeks. [10]
- There was a pink tone in the distant water answering to the flush in the sky, and away to the west the sand-dune that made out into the Sound was a point of light. [4]
- Your English is perfect, but there is something--something--" She turned away her head, a flush spreading over her face. [11]
- Small shreds and patches of it must be very beautiful in the full flush of spring, however, and all the more beautiful by contrast with the far-reaching desolation that surrounds them on every side. [5]
- A swift flush passed over her face, then she smiled and made a step forward to meet her visitor. [11]
- A faint flush passed over her face, and then, looking at me with a neutral expression and some reserve of manner, she replied: "My husband was not a naval man. [11]
- A flush passed over his face, not exactly confusing, but painful, and again it left him pale, and for a moment he stood motionless. [11]
- He took it out, and as he did so, a flush swept over his face, and every nerve of his body tingled. [11]
- Prospecting parties swarmed out of town with the first flush of dawn, and swarmed in again at nightfall laden with spoil--rocks. [5]
- The hectic flush on his pale face deepened. [11]
- You would speak of the pale light of dawn, the tender flush that tinges the clouds as the glowing day-star rises from the waves, of the splendor of the sun-as glorious as truth and as warm as divine love. [10]
- With a flush of local pride, the Professor took up, in the roomy, pleasant chamber set apart for the guests, a copy of Porter's "Elements of Moral Science. [4]
- In the flush of his criminal freedom he had married again--with the woman who shared his home on the little hillside, behind the Parish Church, she believing him a widower. [11]
- The hot flush of conflict and the long anger of the years were on him. [11]
- In the flush of an hour of excitement he had linked her destiny to his. [10]
- I can see now the heavy stone pillars of its portico vignetted in a flush of tenderest green, the tulips just beginning to flame forth their Easter colours in the well-kept beds, the stately, well-groomed evergreens, the vivid lawns, the clipped hedges. [9]
- The morning-star is now high in the sky; the moon, declining in the west, is more than ever like a silver shield; along the east is a faint flush of pink. [4]
- But he had noticed Lali shrink visibly and flush slightly when some one stared harder than usual, and this troubled him. [11]
- This flush did not suggest youth, but rather ripeness, the tone that comes with the lines made in the face by gentle acceptance of the inevitable in life. [4]
- Why did he not speak and make this possible, and not leave it a thing to flush her cheeks, and cause her to feel he had acted on a knowledge he had no right to possess till he had declared himself in speech? [11]
- The King did not see the wink, but he had caught a tone in the voice of the invader, which brought, as I thought, a slight flush to his swarthy cheek. [11]
- This meeting with Mr. Delancy recalled most forcibly Edith, her interest in the East Side work, her sympathy with Father Damon and the mission, the first flush of those days of enthusiasm. [4]
- That was the meaning of his momentary silence, in which I saw that his eyes glistened and a faint flush rose on his cheeks. [6]
- What does the lovely flush in a beauty's cheek mean to a doctor but a 'break' that ripples above some deadly disease. [5]
- Edith made a little calculation that on a flush average of ninety cents a week earned, and allowing so many cents for coal and so many cents for oil, the margin for bread and tea must be small for the month. [4]
- She was slender, like Margaret, but taller, with soft brown eyes and hair streaked with gray, which, sweeping plainly aside from her forehead in a fashion then antiquated, contrasted finely with the flush of pink in her cheeks. [4]
- I saw the lad's face flush, and he looked at me angrily. [11]
- A faint flush in the younger man's cheek told that the shot had hit and hurt; but he answered with dignity: "I have. [5]
- The slight flush in Irene's face as she greeted him might have been wholly due to the unexpectedness of the meeting. [4]
- Two bright spots in his cheeks showed that he had felt a good deal in writing it, and the flush returned as he listened to his own thoughts. [6]
- They were now hot and red, and his eyes had a singular feverish brilliancy, in keeping with the hectic flush on his cheek. [11]
- The flush of hope was bright in Gifted's eye and cheek, and the good man knew that young hearts are apt to be over-sanguine, and that one who enters a shower-bath often feels very differently from the same person when he has pulled the string. [6]
- The thought of herself then, with the flush of a sunrise love suddenly rising in her heart, roused a torrent of feeling now, and it required every bit of strength she had to prevent her bursting into a passion of tears. [11]
- The carronades on her flush decks were replying valiantly to the twelve-pounders of the brig. [11]
- She got to her feet slowly, a flush passing over her face. [11]
- He had colour--that hectic flush which, on his cheek, was almost beautiful. [11]
- Elsie's bosom was heaving, the faint flush on her cheek was becoming a vivid glow. [6]
- As the singing-woman's hands lay in hers, a flush slowly spread over Al'mah's face, and behind the direct power of her eyes there came a light which made them aglow with understanding. [11]
- Without hesitation Charley handed over the letter to the Cure, who took it with surprise, read it with amazement, and handed it back with a flush on his face. [11]
- He welcomed me gratefully, and said that he was much better; as he seemed; but he carried a hectic flush, such as comes to a consumptive person. [11]
- The flush had gone from her face, and a light of determination was in her eyes. [11]
- It did more for him than all the rest, it--" "You don't mean that," she interrupted, with a flush and a bosom that leaped under her pretty gown. [11]
- During the great flush year of 1863, Nevada [claims to have] produced $25,000,000 in bullion--almost, if not quite, a round million to each thousand inhabitants, which is very well, considering that she was without agriculture and manufactures. [5]
- Her brow might flush with shame of the mad deed that turned her life awry, and of the degradation of her present surroundings; but her eyes looked straight into those of Shorland without wavering, with the pride of strength if not of goodness. [11]
- But a red flush stole upon her cheek, and laughter was dancing in her eyes yet she did not move. [9]
- In the first flush of irritation, I said let the Arab and his exploits go to the mischief. [5]
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