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Letter "B" » blush
«The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.»
«Such young men are often awkward, ungainly, and not yet formed in their gait; they straggle with their limbs, and are shy; words do not come to them with ease, when words are required, among any but their accustomed associates. Social meetings are periods of penance to them, and any appearance in public will unnerve them. They go much about alone, and blush when women speak to them. In truth, they are not as yet men, whatever the number may be of their years; and, as they are no longer boys, the world has found for them the ungraceful name of hobbledehoy.»
Author: Anthony Trollope
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as yet, awkward, blush, gait, hobbledehoy, limbs, meetings, penance, shy, straggling, ungainly, ungraceful, unnerve, unnerved, unnerving
«When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty»
«Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.»
«The Cincinnatus of the West, / Whom envy dared not hate, / Bequeathed the name of Washington, / To make man blush there was but one!»
«To read my book, the virgin shy - May blush, while Brutus standeth by: But when he's gone, read through what's writ, And never stain a cheek for it»
«You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.»
«They may seizeOn the white wonder of dear Juliet?s handAnd steal immortal blessing from her lips,Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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blush, Juliet, pure white, seize on, vestal
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