rubescent

• “It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess — vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.”

  The Moon Pool

• “The line of tail lights snaked over the hills and into the woods, the whole thing inching along like a rubescent worm.”

  The Delicate Storm

• “The demon's rubescent eyes fixed malevolently on the mage.”

  Conan The Victorious

• “From those gaping jaws a gout of rubescent flame swept across the captives.”

  Conan The Magnificent

• “She wasn't a prude but she was a girl who hadn't until now allowed any man the privilege of such an intimacy, which the ruby-shaded lamps intensified, casting a rubescent glow over the turned-back sheets and lace counterpane of the big bed.”

  A Girl Possessed

• “Dimly through rubescent veils, the others in the hall could glimpse his white, frozen features, fixed in a grimace of torment.”

  Conan Of The Isles

• “It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess -- vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.”

  The Moon Pool

• “Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.”

  The Haunted Bookshop

• “Guards, who was conspicuous in a uniform as rubescent as his patronymic.”

  A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,

• “And I once a rubescent socialist ... best parlor type ...”

  Black Oxen

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