All 5 Uses of
suffuse
in
War and Peace
- I remember, yes, I remember you with the standard!" said Kutuzov, and a flush of pleasure suffused Prince Andrew's face at this recollection.†
Chpt 10
- But when on Sunday after church the footman announced in the drawing room that Count Rostov had called, the princess showed no confusion, only a slight blush suffused her cheeks and her eyes lit up with a new and radiant light.†
Chpt 12
- And with difficulty, effort, and stress, like the opening of a door grown rusty on its hinges, a smile appeared on the face with the attentive eyes, and from that opening door came a breath of fragrance which suffused Pierre with a happiness he had long forgotten and of which he had not even been thinking—especially at that moment.†
Chpt 15
- It suffused him, seized him, and enveloped him completely.†
Chpt 15 *
- But as soon as he tried to continue the conversation he had begun with Princess Mary he again glanced at Natasha, and a still-deeper flush suffused his face and a still-stronger agitation of mingled joy and fear seized his soul.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(suffuse) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;
or: to become overspread as with a fluid, a color, a gleam of light