Meaning of blushily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a blushy manner; with a blush.

rare

Examples

“The sun, yawning blushily, finished the day’s setting.”

““Please⟳,” I deject, more in sorrow than in angrish, “I must already be twins to vote⟳ for Hon. Presidents. Family is large enough, please⟳.” / "“President?” she counterbalance. “Won’t bother you with President but you must support⟳ me.” / “Delighted,” I rejoice with Teddy Roosevelt teeth. “Where are marriage license⟳ store?” / “No, no,” she deny⟳ blushily. “You are leap-yearing at conclusions. Do not wish⟳, please⟳, to spend⟳ golden days of young life matrimoaning around with you. But if you have⟳ need⟳ of sister, support⟳ me with vote⟳ for Second Vice-President.””

“Honestly, she was surprised when Susan Gillespie came up to her when they were getting their wraps to go home and giggled, ‘My dear, you were the belle of the ball.’ When Bud and Buster said so next morning and old black Emma who’d brought them all up after mother died came in from the kitchen and said, ‘Lawsy, Miss⟳ Annie, folks is talkin’ all over town about how you was the belle of the ball last⟳ night,’ she felt herself blushily happily all over.”

“Rumours flew that he [Robert Frost] was a spy, even a German. But there was still one moment of sweetness, when Eleanor Farjeon’s landlady, Mrs Farmer, ‘who had stepped out of a chapter by George Eliot’, blushily invited all four poets to a country feast of ham, beef, pies, pickles, salads, tarts, trifles and a Stilton, high in the August heat.”

“Soulmate be in my company without I knowing it surely. Yes, surely be it that makes thee to shy blushily; thee to shy blushily with a thousand beautiful faces, oh, Joanna come⟳ in from the sea to me.”

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