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  • Her skin was a flawless, rose-flushed porcelain, and there was enough of it on display to make him certain that she was that way all over.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • Her skin was a flawless, rose-flushed porcelain, and there was enough of it on display to make him certain that she was that way all over.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • They say that Tithonus was swept away in Dawn's passionate, rose-flushed arms to live forever, but he lost his looks, his youth, failing husband of an immortal bride.

    languagehat.com: THE NEW SAPPHO. 2005

  • A blue mist hung in heavy folds round the violet bases of the mountains, which rose white and sharp into the rose-flushed sky; the dew lay blue and sparkling on the short crisp grass; the air was absolutely pure, and with a suspicion of frost in it.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Waimea has its own beauty — the grand breezy plain, the gigantic sweep of the mountain curves, the incessant changes of colour, and the morning view of Mauna Kea, with the pure snow on its ragged dome, rose-flushed in the early sunlight.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The rose-flushed sky looks cool, the air feels cool, one longs to protract the delicious time.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The mornings here, dew-bathed and rose-flushed, are, if possible, more lovely than the nights, and people are astir early to enjoy them.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • I had a delightful canter of several miles before the sun was above the tree-tops, the morning mists, rose-flushed, rolled grandly away, and just as I reached the beautiful pass of Bukit Berapit, the apes were hooting their morning hymn, and the forests rang with the joyous trills and songs of birds.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Although most of the women were fair, with delicate rose-flushed skin and lips parted to show small glistening white teeth, he realized that something about them reminded him of the woman he followed.

    Leave the Grave Green Deborah Crombie 1995

  • When one waked at morning, one saw in the wide window only the rose-flushed sky; then sitting up, the hills of Attica purpled with daybreak, and the gray landlocked bay.

    The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958

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