Both Uses of
suffuse
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- To judge from the glow which suffused the poor girl's countenance after this speech, Mrs Wititterly might, with some show of reason, have been supposed to have imparted to it some of that artificial bloom which decorated her own.†
Chpt 28 *
- But the intense eagerness and joy depicted in the face of Newman Noggs, which was suffused with perspiration; the surprising energy with which he directed a constant succession of blows towards a particular panel about five feet eight from the ground, and still worked away in the most untiring and persevering manner, would have sufficiently explained to the attentive observer, that his imagination was thrashing, to within an inch of his life, his body's most active employer, Mr Ralph…†
Chpt 28
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