Both Uses of
suffuse
in
The Age of Innocence
- As Madame Nilsson's "M'ama!" thrilled out above the silent house (the boxes always stopped talking during the Daisy Song) a warm pink mounted to the girl's cheek, mantled her brow to the roots of her fair braids, and suffused the young slope of her breast to the line where it met a modest tulle tucker fastened with a single gardenia.†
Chpt 1 *
- Archer, as he looked at her, was reminded of the glow which had suffused her face in the Mission Garden at St. Augustine.†
Chpt 31
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