Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Flush
Flushed to radiance where they stood,
Like statues by the open tomb
Of shining saints half risen.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Flushed … like a rose.
—Aubrey De Vere
Rosy flushes, like warm dreams of love.
—Frances Anne Kemble
Flushes, like some young Hebe’s lip.
—Thomas Moore
Have ne’er by shame been taught to blush,
Like vernal roses in the sun flush.
—Thomas Moore
Flushed as one afire with wine.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne