Sample Sentences foreffusion (auto-selected)
effusion as in: effusions of domestic joy
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I read her latest effusion about the health care mess.effusion = an enthusiastic expression of feelings or thoughts
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For to prevent the effusion of blood, and for the avoiding all other inconveniences likely to grow from the wars now levied in our realm of Narnia, it is our pleasure to adventure our royal person on behalf of our trusty and well-beloved Caspian in clean wager of battle to prove upon your Lordship's body that the said Caspian is lawful King under us in Narnia ... (source)effusion = flowing
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The doctor asked me to cough, took my temperature and blood pressure, applied his stethoscope, and announced that I had pleurisy with effusion, pre-tubercular.† (source)
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One Saturday Mrs. E.C.B. stalked into the office with an effusion Mr. Underwood said he refused to disgrace the Tribune with: it was a cow obituary in verse, beginning: 0 kine no longer mine With those big brown eyes of thine.... and containing grave breaches of Christian philosophy.† (source)
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Katie Boulter gave her a perfume bottle to keep slate water in, and Julia Bell copied carefully on a piece of pale pink paper scalloped on the edges the following effusion:† (source)
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Her daughters listened in silence to this effusion, sensible that any attempt to reason with her or soothe her would only increase the irritation.† (source)
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But then, what reams of other manuscripts—filled, not with the dulness of official formalities, but with the thought of inventive brains and the rich effusion of deep hearts—had gone equally to oblivion; and that, moreover, without serving a purpose in their day, as these heaped-up papers had, and—saddest of all—without purchasing for their writers the comfortable livelihood which the clerks of the Custom-House had gained by these worthless scratchings of the pen.† (source)
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Peter's face lit up, and he went into great effusions about her father's contributions to marine zoology, as I had myself once done upon meeting Goff.† (source)
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We have watch'd the seasons dispensing themselves and passing on, And have said, Why should not a man or woman do as much as the seasons, and effuse as much?† (source)
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Instead, their light effused the sky with an eerie, gray-white glow.† (source)
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The scene and all its belongings, how they seize and affect me, The sad sharp-chinn'd old man with worn clothes and broad shoulder-band of leather, Myself effusing and fluid, a phantom curiously floating, now here absorb'd and arrested, The group, (an unminded point set in a vast surrounding,) The attentive, quiet children, the loud, proud, restive base of the streets, The low hoarse purr of the whirling stone, the light-press'd blade, Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold, Sparkles from the wheel.† (source)
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"Amazing, huh Cedric?" effuses Kelly.† (source)
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I was not free to resume the interrupted chain of my reflections till bedtime: even then a teacher who occupied the same room with me kept me from the subject to which I longed to recur, by a prolonged effusion of small talk.† (source)
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These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.† (source)
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The great laws take and effuse without argument, I am of the same style, for I am their friend, I love them quits and quits, I do not halt and make salaams.† (source)
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and, deadly pale, Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused.† (source)
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