was suffusing
- past progressive of suffuse.
Example Sentences
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A glow was suffusing the far sky, growing brighter and brighter.
From Harley Greenoak's Charge by Mitford, Bertram
This frank acknowledgment suddenly turned the sorrow that was suffusing so many eyes into a roar of laughter, in which even the weeping Doctor could not but unite.
From Cora and The Doctor or Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Leslie, Madeline
Her blood had begun to circulate and a warm glow was suffusing her entire body.
From The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea Or The Loss of The Lonesome Bar by Aldridge, Janet
He could not see her kindling eyes, her parted lips, the color which was suffusing forehead and cheeks, and he rather expected to hear subdued sobbing.
From One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York by Tracy, Louis
In Fifth Avenue the electric lights sparkled like frost on the pavement, while beyond the roofs of the houses the first melancholy glow of a winter's sunrise was suffusing the sky with red.
From Virginia by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson