"Ruddiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Paulina. "The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; you will stain your own with oily painting. Shall I draw ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... strawberry, each in the estimation of special enthusiasts, is proclaimed the panacea for many of the ills of life. One writer cites cases in which maniacs have been restored to reason by the exclusive use of cherries. The apple, they say, too, gives to the face of the fair ruddiness, but the tint is it not too bold, compared with maiden blush which bepaints the cheek of the beauty who rightly understands the use of the vital principle of the papaw? Those who have complexions to retain or restore let them understand ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... illumination across the valley had died down to a faint ruddiness, just seen through the thin tops of the firs. The fire—whether it had been the barn or the house—had burned itself out. Whatever had happened, it was over. As she stood shuddering, unable to think, not daring to think, her eyes rested upon the bear, huge and formless in the gloom, staring ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... grave her own doubts of his innocence might be, she was resolved that such doubts should, if possible, be banished from the minds of other people. Under her influence he was already becoming his old self as far as looks went. A shade of his usual ruddiness had come back; he ...
— The Loudwater Mystery • Edgar Jepson
... red men—still it was known that Indians existed, and it was taken for granted that they would be hostile. Meanwhile the women, in homespun frocks and jackets, with kerchiefs round their shoulders, and faces in which some trace of the English ruddiness had begun to return, sat spinning in the doorways of the huts, keeping an eye on the kettles of Indian meal. The morning sunlight fell upon a scene which, for the first time, seemed homelike: not like the lost homes in England, but a place people could ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
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