blushful

For one long blushful year I had been one of his worshipping admirers.

They send people out looking like they've been swigging the blushful Hippocrene - you know, with purple-stained mouth -hardly able to eat, hardly able to digest what they do eat.

"Now that we have touched, inadvertently chanced upon, as one might say, this topic-spirit, the blushful hippocrene--I wonder if by any chance you would care to join me in a thimbleful of the elixir I have here棑 "Thank you, Lonnie, no.