rubescent

• Kindles and flashes with rubescent gleams —  Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3
• And I once a rubescent socialist ... best parlor type ... —  Black Oxen
• 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 disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914
• At this mild reproof Mister BAGSHOT became utterly rubescent, murmuring excuses which I did not catch; and I, perceiving that this object lesson of kindness to animals from an Oriental had strongly affected all the shooters, patted the hound on the forehead, consoling him with some chocolate I carried in my cartridge sack. —  Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

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