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Meanings of blush for in English

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Usage of blush for in English
1
In five minutes this self-confident journalist would blush for his own ignorance.
David Malcolm
2
Our kin would blush for us and be dishonored all their days.
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) / Myths and Legendary He...
3
He took her blush for a confession and laughed still more wildly.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
4
Yes, fed by them, I say-andI do not blush for it.
Fromont and Risler — Volume 2
5
He had never seen her blush for any word of his before.
The History of David Grieve
6
She began to blush for her love, to blush for her illness.
Put Yourself in His Place
7
The modesty of Arne's would make you blush for your fur-lined coat.
Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough
8
But you don't blush for it as you would for the other.
A Perilous Secret
9
Do not let me have to blush for my son's ill feeling.
The Channings: A Story
10
In the name of all true womanhood I could blush for you!
St. Elmo
11
Whoever she be, I'm well sure you need not blush for her.
The Small House at Allington
12
Put an end to this sinful folly; blush for your unwomanly weakness!
St. Elmo
13
Heed kinder then, and blush for very shame, O man and woman!
Heart: A Social Novel
14
Oh, sir, how many times she has made me blush for shame.
Paula the Waldensian
15
I therefore write the words, and blush for your simple character.
The Idiot
16
Never blush for it; we have all been led aside by such gear.
The Talisman
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