blushing, n.Definitions

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Blushing is modesty's first impulse and sophistication's afterthought.

Blushing is a sign of grace.

Blushing is the livery of virtue.

Blushing is a practice least used by those who have most occasion for it.

Blushing is much more freely expressed among youth than in the elderly, but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion.

Blushing is the crimsoning of the face brought about not by the conscience nor the sense of guilt, but by the thought that others think or know us to be guilty.

Blushing is a trick formerly in great favour with women, but now fallen into disuse as a lost art, though by laborious practice the modem damsel is still able to achieve it at the risk of being taken in hand and treated for apoplexy.