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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Blush
 
  Blush like an opal.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Blush like the heart of flame.
            —Henry W. Austin		  2
  Blushing like a wedding night.
            —Honoré de Balzac		  3
  I blushed like any rose.
            —T. H. Bayly		  4
  Blushing like a Worcestershire orchard before harvest.
            —Earl of Beaconsfield		  5
Blushing like the skies to crimson burning,
When Aurora Borealis fires her premises by night.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  6
Blushes, like the flushes upon high
When Aurora Borealis lights her circumpolar palace.
            —Ambrose Bierce		  7
  Blush like rose when Roland speaks.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  8
  Blushing like a sea-shell.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  9
  Blush’d like the waves of hell.
            —Lord Byron		  10
  Blushing, like a bride.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  11
  Blushes like a new-born flower.
            —Barry Cornwall		  12
  Blush as hot as June.
            —Barry Cornwall		  13
  Blush’d and smiled like a clear and rosy eventide.
            —Sir John Davies		  14
  Blusheth like the Indian ivory which is with dip of Tyrian purple dy’d.
            —Sir John Davies		  15
  Blushes as adorn the ruddy welkin or the purple morn.
            —John Dryden		  16
  Blushes like a red bull-calf.
            —A. B. Evans (Leicester Words, Phrases and Proverbs)		  17
  Make us blush like copper.
            —John Fletcher		  18
  Her cheek of beauty blushed like rose-bud in the rain.
            —James Hogg		  19
  Blushed like blood.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  20
  A blush like sunrise o’er the rose.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  21
  Blushes like the birds of spring.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  22
  Blush as of opening flowers.
            —George P. Lathrop		  23
  Blush like the backside of a chimney.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  24
  Blush like a sunset.
            —Alfred Henry Lewis		  25
  Blushes like a virgin.
            —Richard Lovelace		  26
  Blush as lovely as the dawn.
            —Samuel Lover		  27
  Blushing like the dogwood crimson in October.
            —George Meredith		  28
Blushed like timid daybreak when the dawn
Looms crimson on the night, and then again is withdrawn.
            —Thomas Miller		  29
  Blushing like a summer morning.
            —Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen		  30
  Blushed like a girl fresh from school.
            —Sir Gilbert Parker		  31
  Blushing as in vintage-hours.
            —Thomas L. Peacock		  32
  Blush’d like a carnation.
            —Thomas L. Peacock		  33
  Blush like a banner bathed in slaughter.
            —James G. Percival		  34
  Blush like lads of seventeen.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  35
Blushes bright pass o’er her cheek,
But pure and pale as is the glow of sunset on a mountain peak,
Robed in eternal snow.
            —John Ruskin		  36
  Blushing, like some shy maiden in convent bred.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  37
  Blush … like a black dog, as the saying is.
            —William Shakespeare		  38
  Blushing like the perfumed morn.
            —Richard Brinsley Sheridan		  39
  Blush like my waistcoat.
            —Richard Brinsley Sheridan		  40
  Blushing like Aurora.
            —Tobias Smollett		  41
Blushed as with bloodless passion, and its hue
Was as the life and love of hearts on flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  42
  Blushes … as a young virgin on her wedding night.
            —Bayard Taylor		  43
  I blush as red as cochineal.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  44
  Blushin as red as the Baldinsville skool house when it was fust painted.
            —Artemus Ward		  45
  A faint blush melting through the light of thy transparent cheek like a rose-leaf bathed in dew.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  46
 
 
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