Example Sentences

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Then you will tremble, scarlet lips, Then you will crimson, loveliest cheeks: Eyes will brighten and blushes will burn When the one true lover bends and speaks.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Anything that will crimson the cheek of true womanhood, or invade the unconsciousness of innocence, is unworthy and unmanly, to a degree of which it is not easy to find language to express sufficient abhorrence.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

Su-wa-nee can tell him one that will crimson his cheeks like the flowers of the red maple.”

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne