All 6 Uses of
suffuse
in
The House of Mirth
- "I've got a few new things," he said, suffused with pleasure, but lowering his voice as though he feared his fellow-passengers might be in league to despoil him.†
Chpt 1.2
- "Oh, don't," said Lily, with a quick suffusion of colour.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- She could not herself have explained the sense of buoyancy which seemed to lift and swing her above the sun-suffused world at her feet.†
Chpt 1.6
- "It was no place for you, anyhow," he agreed, so suffused and immersed in the light of her full gaze that he found himself being drawn into strange depths of intimacy.†
Chpt 2.10
- She had even felt a momentary exhilaration at the thought of thus relieving herself of her detested secret; but the sensation gradually faded in the telling, and as she ended her pallour was suffused with a deep blush of misery.†
Chpt 2.10
- A wave of colour suffused her, and the words died on her lips.†
Chpt 2.12
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