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  • The atmosphere was suffused with the sweet scent of smoke.†   (source)
  • Supposing them suffused with the luminescence of imagination, he followed one glowing man down the rue de Rivoli to a modest shop with a wooden sign in the shape of a top hat hanging over its door.†   (source)
  • A deep flush suffused her face and no matter how she tried she could not find a place for her eyes to rest.†   (source)
  • Yet every time I remembered it I was suffused with a glow of warmth.†   (source)
  • Rows of dried herbs hung from the walls and suffused the air with strong, earthy aromas.†   (source)
  • The smell of Vlad's cooking suffused the corridor, and my stomach tightened with hunger.†   (source)
  • These were objects suffused with a life and a past.†   (source)
  • Invisible in the torchlight, these glowing crosses now suffused the tunnel with light.†   (source)
  • The air was stale and still, suffused with the scent of rotten peaches, horse excrement, and partially corn-busted Illinois anthracite.†   (source)
  • Climbing on it, I fashioned a lampshade with the paper: a cheery red glow at once suffused the bleak little room.†   (source)
  • The nights are clear, but suffused with sloth and sullen expectation.†   (source)
  • Streaked with shadows, the stark faces of the angels holding up the enormous desk looked even more suffused with pain.†   (source)
  • Blood suffused the Sardaukar's face.†   (source)
  • His volt meter showed thirteen and a half volts charging, and the Susan Marie ran hard and steady, her spotlight suffused in the fog.†   (source)
  • The tree itself looked perfectly fine, whole and healthy, suffused with the essence of the Golden Fleece.†   (source)
  • A strange otherworldly light suffuses the house smelling of labor and sanctity.†   (source)
  • A thin flush had suffused his features.†   (source)
  • The only other sixteen-yearolds with boobs as big as mine are suffused with silicone—and everyone knows it.†   (source)
  • At his glance, her face was suffused with a swift, distressed red.†   (source)
  • She laid the burning flashlight on the bed and then she pushed it under the blanket where it suffused the room with a soft glow.†   (source)
  • The visitor showed pleasure in the European texture of the street, things done the old slow faithful way, things carried over, suffused with rules of usage.†   (source)
  • The quiet that suffused the doctor's house then, broken only by the murmur of the women eating sunshine cake, was only that: quiet.†   (source)
  • In the first months of his return, he wrote constantly to Betty from Milwaukee and the mortuary institute, and there was no Iwo Jima in the letters; the letters were suffused with serenity and happiness, a kind of luminous normality: "Gee I just can't seem to keep my mind on this schoolwork and that's bad in a way.†   (source)
  • My arms are suffused with an urge to hold, but a hug would startle her.†   (source)
  • They would form a ring around him, holding each other by the hand, trying to suffuse him with their healing fluids, but that too failed to endow Nicolas with mental powers.†   (source)
  • He buried his head in his bombsight until his bombs were away; when he looked up, everything inside the ship was suffused in a weird orange glow.†   (source)
  • What was left of her was bloated and suffused.†   (source)
  • Looking out a tall foyer window at the dorm's brick courtyard, tinted reddish gold by the late afternoon sun, Cedric is suffused with a sense of belonging, even though he is impossibly far from home.†   (source)
  • The air was cold and suffused with a strange odor, like clothes left to rot in a flooded basement.†   (source)
  • The pleasure suffusing his body called for darkness.†   (source)
  • The light at this altitude was so different from Madras, suffusing what it graced rather than glaring off every surface.†   (source)
  • As I listened to her plans, so selfless and suffused with hope, I felt the wretchedness of my own selfish scheme for escape into a false oblivion.†   (source)
  • Her daughter guides her to an indoor courtyard, suffused with winter light.†   (source)
  • Joe would never forget the flush of joy that suffused Chrissie's face when she was taking a ballet lesson, or the squint-eyed concentration with which she approached home plate to take her turn at bat in Little League baseball games.†   (source)
  • A hint of pink suffused his cheeks.†   (source)
  • In terms of sound it could be not unlike the buzzing of a hive of bees; in terms of light, a suffused glow.†   (source)
  • His eyes, sapphire orbs suffused with an inner glow, wandered over the assembled Rowan and Workshop dignitaries with an expression of patrician magnanimity.†   (source)
  • And though I didn't do anything that day with Mary Burns to go against her wishes, it would be wrong to recall something other than a renewed lightness suffusing my spirit, a part of me which seemed, I was certain, to have been long ago dissipated, and lost.†   (source)
  • Alessandro had noticed when he first arrived that the color that suffused around the openings where the light entered was a milky orange like that of an orange cream-ice that Roman vendors sold in the parks.†   (source)
  • Loki's face was suffused with remembered pleasure.†   (source)
  • Tyler trailed off since the colonel seemed to be suffusing a bit.†   (source)
  • The white light was suffused all around him now; this was the waking place for Lolla-Wossiky.†   (source)
  • Once more his very presence made her feel better; she was suffused by a drowsy fatigue but the nausea and deep malaise were gone.†   (source)
  • A blood-red glow suffused the resin.†   (source)
  • Passing in and out of the house, I tried to avert my eyes from the garishly rouged bodies and hold my breath against inhaling the cloying odors of candle wax, tuberoses, and embalming fluid which suffused the hallway.†   (source)
  • My lips are stricken to silence, underneath my skin the tenuous flame suffuses; nothing shows in front of my eyes, my ears are muted in thunder.†   (source)
  • Eggbeaters whirl, spoons spin round in bowls of butter and sugar, vanilla sweetens the air, ginger spices it; melting, nose-tingling odors saturate the kitchen, suffuse the house, drift out to the world on puffs of chimney smoke.†   (source)
  • She kept looking out the window, suffused with the warmth from the fire and with the pity and beauty and power of her death.†   (source)
  • His lean face was suffused with anger.†   (source)
  • He saw her reddened, crumpled face, and her blood-suffused eyes, and knew what was wrong.†   (source)
  • An ugly flush suffused Snape's pallid face.†   (source)
  • Goddesses are possible now and the air suffuses with desire.†   (source)
  • They felt suffused with health and wellbeing.†   (source)
  • Closing the door, I was suffused with relief.†   (source)
  • In that moment Ye saw the rest of her life suffused with an endless grayness.†   (source)
  • The air was still, moist, and suffused with the burned-licorice scent of freshly rolled macadam.†   (source)
  • Scores of lanterns hung between the pillars, suffusing the air with liquid brilliance.†   (source)
  • His face was scarlet, suffused with blood.†   (source)
  • "You have no right to speak of my father," Ye said, anger suffusing her voice.†   (source)
  • The light suffusing the Court was so plentiful and intense, it hurt their eyes.†   (source)
  • The stench now suffused the entire house.†   (source)
  • Yet from the start tension suffused their marriage.†   (source)
  • The scent of partially combusted oil suffused the air.†   (source)
  • Fear suffused Mark as he held on, squeezing his fingers so tightly they turned bone-white.†   (source)
  • Arya closed her eyes and tilted her head back, radiant joy suffusing her features.†   (source)
  • A profound sense of horror suffused Eragon.†   (source)
  • When we bend our heads to pray I feel suffused with goodness, I feel included, taken in.†   (source)
  • To the east, the first pale light of day suffused the sky above the river.†   (source)
  • When he did, his face was suffused with pleasure.†   (source)
  • MESSAGE IN AMIRROR The morning sun beat down on Saphira, suffusing her with a pleasant warmth.†   (source)
  • "God," Genet said, groaning and sliding down in her chair, her face suffused with blood.†   (source)
  • Heat suffused Eragon as blood rushed to his face, like hot tallow melting through him.†   (source)
  • Though the rain still fell, a vague light suffused the eastern sky.†   (source)
  • I felt suffused with her truth, spread through, as with water, color or light.†   (source)
  • Only to think of it makes me feel suffused, inert, like the flesh of a watermelon.†   (source)
  • He delved into it, and the energy suffused him.†   (source)
  • By the time Hema rose, the house was suffused with the scent of boiling milk.†   (source)
  • Eragon's cheeks stung as blood suffused them, and the tips of his ears burned.†   (source)
  • They are suffused with anxiety, but it's not my own anxiety.†   (source)
  • The smell of moist soil and punky wood suffused the air.†   (source)
  • Astonishment suffused his youthful face as he beheld Nasuada.†   (source)
  • Snape's pale face, illuminated by the flaming cabin, was suffused with hatred just as it had been before he had cursed Dumbledore.†   (source)
  • It flies in through the window, lands close to him on the pillow, bright green this time with purple wings and a yellow beak, glowing like a beacon, and Snowman is suffused with happiness and love.†   (source)
  • The candle on the table cast an arc of light across their food, and outside, through the misty window-pane, the snow on the ground caught the moonlight beyond the clouds and held it so that it suffused everything.†   (source)
  • This morning, Minerva came into the kitchen to get Manolo his cafecito, and her face was suffused with a certain sweetness.†   (source)
  • The universe was a cramped heart, and the red light that suffused everything was the translucent blood that filled the organ.†   (source)
  • It wasn't the kind of coldness that some people put on like a mask—hers suffused her all the way through.†   (source)
  • I looked up at it and thought it a silvery, strange eye that gazed down at me, the light suffused with an eerie chill.†   (source)
  • Each of them seemed suffused with the wisdom of the man who had once held the bowl in his hand or clamped the stem between his teeth, deep in thought, though Ruan had never mentioned the man's name.†   (source)
  • The reporter—Theodore Dreiser—was young and suffused with a garish self-confidence that drew the attention of the young women.†   (source)
  • The air of "anxious effort" that suffused the park reminded Candace Wheeler, the designer hired to decorate the Woman's Building, "of an insufficiently equipped household preparing for visitors."†   (source)
  • Some days the halls were suffused with a caustic scent, as of a cleanser applied too liberally, other days with a silvery medicinal odor, as if a dentist were at work somewhere in the building easing a customer into a deep sleep.†   (source)
  • Clary could not help but think of medieval paintings of saints on their knees, gazing upward, their faces suffused with shining golden light.†   (source)
  • All the lanterns were shuttered halfway so that a cool twilight suffused the air, lending an ethereal feel to the event.†   (source)
  • Cedric, suffused with warmth and relief, listens intently as the crowd cheers, like when they all marched in, but more ardently this time.†   (source)
  • And at the moment he felt pleasure suffusing his body, Franz himself disintegrated and dissolved into the infinity of his darkness, himself becoming infinite.†   (source)
  • Heat suffused her body; her cheeks burned, and her hands and feet felt as if they were filled with molten tallow.†   (source)
  • Suffused with the gagging, sickening smell of rotting bodies, people who died from the initial burst of heat and radiation.†   (source)
  • I've brought you back your—those little books of Old English Poetry," she said, with a sudden constriction in her throat, and a quick burning flush that suffused brow, cheek and neck.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Astaroth's face turned toward him, beautiful and angelic and utterly suffused with hate.†   (source)
  • Albert, who shunned any form of organized worship and thought God was a mass delusion, sat and watched her for hours, combed her hair, soaked up her diarrhea with bunched Kleenex, talked to her in his boyhood Italian, and he felt that the house, the flat, was suffused with a reverence, old, sad, heavy and impressive—an otherworldliness, now that she was here.†   (source)
  • The glow from the elves' flameless lanterns lit his face with a warm light, and by it, he seemed suffused with life and joy.†   (source)
  • He looked out one of the round windows that faced the edge of the cliff and allowed the afternoon warmth to suffuse the room.†   (source)
  • There are still Madonnas, but their bodies have lost their previous quality of suffused light and are more likely to be seen at night.†   (source)
  • Letting the magic suffuse his voice, Eragon cried out for Folkvir, sending his plea echoing over the forested hills toward Ellesmera with all the urgency he could muster.†   (source)
  • An instant later, he found himself looking at a broad, vaulted cave suffused with the warm glow of morning.†   (source)
  • He immediately reached through the barrier in his mind so that the magic's power suffused him and said, "Gath sem oro un lam iet.†   (source)
  • Already the dull ache of loneliness suffused him, and he felt small and isolated without the comforting presence of Saphira's consciousness.†   (source)
  • THECOUNCIL OFELDERS Eragon roused himself and rolled to the edge of the bed, looking about the room, which was suffused with the dim glow of a shuttered lantern.†   (source)
  • It was late in the day, and the garish orange of noon had subsided into a dusky gold light that suffused the camp and battlefield, giving it a strange beauty.†   (source)
  • The aroma of yeast, flour, roasting meat, freshly poured wine, boiling soups, sweet pastries, and melted candies suffused the clearing.†   (source)
  • The small purple blossoms were unobtrusive, but they suffused the air with a warm fragrance that-for Eragon-evoked summers of fresh-picked raspberries and scythed fields turning bronze under the sun.†   (source)
  • Like soft, thick snowflakes, the velvety petals settled upon the heads and shoulders of those in attendance, and also upon the floor, suffusing the air with their sweet fragrance.†   (source)
  • At the sound, the chairs and pavilion were showered with hundreds of lilies and roses that appeared twenty feet above their heads and drifted down like colorful snowflakes, suffusing the air with their heady fragrance.†   (source)
  • Heat suffused his face.†   (source)
  • Around Saphira, the clouds billowed in a fantastic architecture: vaulting arches, domes, and columns; crenelated ramparts; towers the size of mountains; and ridges and valleys suffused with a glowing light that made Eragon feel as if they flew through a dream.†   (source)
  • Why should she giggle when the little chapel was suddenly suffused by the grief of a single contralto voice and the strains of that tragic cantata Schlage doch, gewunschte Stunde?†   (source)
  • However, his disapproval of violence was based less on ideology than on a perverse delicacy; with all this apparent hand-wringing, he clung staunchly to the obsession that had for so long dominated and suffused his being: he began methodically to philosophize about the necessity of eliminating Jews from all walks of life, commencing with Academe.†   (source)
  • Dominating the scene by his height and force was Nathan: broad-shouldered, powerful-looking, crowned with a shock of hair swarthy as a Sioux's, he resembled a more attenuated and frenetic John Garfield, with Garfield's handsome, crookedly agreeable face—theoretically agreeable, I should say, for now the face was murky with passion and rage, was quite emphatically anything but agreeable, suffused as it was with such an obvious eagerness for violence.†   (source)
  • The amiable Swede departed, her kindly face flushed, her eyes suffused with tears.†   (source)
  • And then they saw her face-suffused with blood, with blue lips and staring eyes.†   (source)
  • Like an enraged beast, the furnace throbbed with heat, suffusing a red glare over everything.†   (source)
  • But was that smile for him or for that inner languor that suffused and harmonized her spirit?†   (source)
  • The singing from the church vibrated through him, suffusing him with a mood of sensitive sorrow.†   (source)
  • He could hardly get the words through his fever-crusted lips and he gazed at the doctor with bulging eyes that his headache had suffused with tears.†   (source)
  • Above the jagged roof tops, the white smoke, whitened and suffused by the slanting sun, faded into the slots and wedges of the sky.†   (source)
  • Thus the tales are both pitiless and terrorless—suffused with the joy of a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.†   (source)
  • Henry looks at the pistol; now he is not only panting, he is trembling when he speaks now his voice is not even the exhalation, it is the suffused and suffocating in breath itself.†   (source)
  • And there was the quiet terror that suffused my senses when vast hazes of gold washed earthward from star-heavy skies on silent nights ….†   (source)
  • Darl He sits the horse, glaring at Vernon, his lean face suffused up to and beyond the pale rigidity of his eyes.†   (source)
  • For the moment he does not attempt to curb it; backthrust too in his hard chair, looking for the first time at the minister, with a face confident and bold and suffused.†   (source)
  • The roses flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within; a new and profound significance seemed to suffuse the shining pages of the books.†   (source)
  • …corners, invisibly joined strip to strip, steamed and squeezed and polished; all over the blotting-paper carpet were strewn tables designed perhaps by a sanitary engineer, square blocks of stuffing, with square holes for sitting in, and upholstered, it seemed, in blotting paper also; the light of the hall was suffused from scores of hollows, giving an even glow, casting no shadows—the whole place hummed from its hundred ventilators and vibrated with the turn of the great engines below.†   (source)
  • With the sunset sharpness was lost, and like mist rising, quiet rose, quiet spread, the wind settled; loosely the world shook itself down to sleep, darkly here without a light to it, save what came green suffused through leaves, or pale on the white flowers in the bed by the window.†   (source)
  • Quentin said, though still he did not move nor even raise his voice—that voice with its tense suffused restrained quality: "I am telling" Am I going to have to hear it all again he thought I am going to have to hear it all over again I am already bearing it all over again I am listening to it all over again I shall have to never listen to anything else but this again forever so apparently not only a man never outlives his father but not even his friends and acquaintances do.†   (source)
  • I lost my brooch—my grandmother's brooch," said Minta with a sound of lamentation in her voice, and a suffusion in her large brown eyes, looking down, looking up, as she sat by Mr. Ramsay, which roused his chivalry so that he bantered her.†   (source)
  • I am not even touching it when, turning, he lets it overshoot him, swinging, and stops it and sloughs it into the wagon bed in the same motion and looks back at me, his face suffused with fury and despair.†   (source)
  • I feel that America's past is too shallow, her national character too superficially optimistic, her very morality too suffused with color hate for her to accomplish so vast and complex a task.†   (source)
  • This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power.†   (source)
  • He entered-thrust of warmth of the gaslit hallway, stagnant air suffused with the dusty, torpid odor of carpets.†   (source)
  • Again the strange, rapt glow suffused her body.†   (source)
  • A warm self-content suffused him when he considered what he had already done.†   (source)
  • "Oh, don't," said Lily, with a quick suffusion of colour.†   (source)
  • But his face was suffused with a quiet glow when he met her.†   (source)
  • He seemed to radiate an atmosphere which suffused her being.†   (source)
  • The answer sent a pang through him but the tone suffused him with joy.†   (source)
  • And as instantly his body was suffused with a warm and yet very weakening ray.†   (source)
  • A wave of colour suffused her, and the words died on her lips.†   (source)
  • Already she was enlivened and suffused with a glow.†   (source)
  • The rapidity of the suffusion shows the terrible nature of his injury.†   (source)
  • Didn't exist?" cried the poor general, and a deep blush suffused his face.†   (source)
  • Little Chandler felt his cheeks suffused with shame and he stood back out of the lamplight.†   (source)
  • When she came back to the dressing-room her cheeks were slightly suffused.†   (source)
  • The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.†   (source)
  • Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither ship nor boat to be seen.†   (source)
  • It suffused him, seized him, and enveloped him completely.†   (source)
  • A deep crimson suffused the countenance of Villefort.†   (source)
  • Vassily Ivanovitch's eyes suddenly grew round, and his cheeks were suffused with a faint flush.†   (source)
  • Ivan smiled, but an angry flush suffused his face.†   (source)
  • The wood floated before her, for her eyes were suffused with tears.†   (source)
  • Vassily Ivanovitch's bronzed cheeks were suffused with an uneasy flush.†   (source)
  • The sheik looked at Ben-Hur, whose face was suffused with pleasure.†   (source)
  • Her eyes, however, saw nothing; they had suddenly been suffused with tears.†   (source)
  • The deep glow of indignation suffused the cheeks of Dantes.†   (source)
  • Ben-Hur's face suffused, and, advancing a step, he cried, impulsively, "My mother and sister!†   (source)
  • At the conclusion he raised his suffused eyes in thanksgiving and prayer.†   (source)
  • Her countenance was suffused with pleasure.†   (source)
  • When Claggart's unobserved glance happened to light on belted Billy rolling along the upper gun deck in the leisure of the second dog-watch, exchanging passing broadsides of fun with other young promenaders in the crowd; that glance would follow the cheerful sea-Hyperion with a settled meditative and melancholy expression, his eyes strangely suffused with incipient feverish tears.†   (source)
  • That is all among the dim things of childhood and has been forgotten in the brighter pattern life weaves to-day, in the bright facts of being captain of the track team, and holding the interstate record for the high jump, in the all-suffusing brightness of being twenty-one.†   (source)
  • The prince had grown animated as he spoke, and a tinge of colour suffused his pale face, though his way of talking was as quiet as ever.†   (source)
  • It was very quiet in the room, whose shadows huddled together in corners, away from the still flame of the candle flaring upright in the shape of a dagger; his face after a while seemed suffused by a reflection of a soft light as if the dawn had broken already.†   (source)
  • A soft light suffused his face and his eyes glistened, as though somewhere in the deeps of his being his ancestors had quickened and stirred with dim memories of tips received in former lives.†   (source)
  • "I mean it with all my heart," she replied, a sudden rich warmth suffusing her body as she saw the first sign of his softening.†   (source)
  • Here in England, Monsieur," he added, with wonderful charm and dignity, "we but name the Scarlet Pimpernel, and every fair cheek is suffused with a blush of enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • Expanses of snow suffused with soft light rose in layers, one behind another, leading your gaze into insubstantiality.†   (source)
  • But at last the lagging daylight asserts itself, the torches are extinguished, and a mellow radiance suffuses the great spaces.†   (source)
  • He was still in the strait waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading.†   (source)
  • His homely face was suffused with a light of love for the army which was to him all things beautiful and powerful.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Their bodies, corpse-white or suffused with a pallid golden light or rawly tanned by the sun, gleamed with the wet of the sea.†   (source)
  • The old trees, the thick shrubbery, made a great and pleasant shade, but it was all suffused with the brightness of the hot, still hour.†   (source)
  • A slow blush suffused neck and cheek.†   (source)
  • The room through the lace end of the blind was suffused with dusky golden light amid which the candles looked like pale thin flames.†   (source)
  • He spoke the verses aloud from the first lines till the music and rhythm suffused his mind, turning it to quiet indulgence; then copied them painfully to feel them the better by seeing them; then lay back on his bolster.†   (source)
  • "Percy," she whispered, while a deep blush suffused her delicate cheeks and neck, "if you only knew …."†   (source)
  • With a wild-rose color suffusing her face, she swiftly bent over him, kissed him, and flashed away into the house.†   (source)
  • Archer, as he looked at her, was reminded of the glow which had suffused her face in the Mission Garden at St. Augustine.†   (source)
  • As he lay there, the window-pane that faced him, growing gradually lighter, inlaid upon the darkness a square of moon-suffused sky.†   (source)
  • Their formal homage mixed with genial friendship, plus the deliberate mildness with which the mother looked up from her baby, while still helping him drink with gentle pressure from her forefinger, to acknowledge with a smile the reverence shown her—it all suffused Hans Castorp with rapture.†   (source)
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