A certain institution in Mr Podsnap's mind which he called 'the young person'may be considered to have been embodied in Miss Podsnap, his daughter†The question about everything was, would it bring a blush into the cheek of the young person?

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^5  Our Mutual Friend, bk.1, ch.11.

Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question,Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  Mr Sapsea's epitaph for his wife. Edwin Drood, ch.4.

Blush at your faults.

-Fo, Dario
c.1621 The Wild-Goose Chase, act1, sc.1.

   A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept† At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea.

-Miller, Arthur
  The Collected Plays,'Introduction, II'.

'May the divil choke ye!'says he, pleasant enough, but I knew by the blush he had he was vexed.

-Martin Ross
  Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.,'Lisheen Races, Second- Hand'.

It is difficult to live up to one's poster† When I pass my name in large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

-Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm
Quoted in Hesketh Pearson Beerbohm (1956).

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retir'd; Bid her come forth, Suffer her self to be desir'd, And not blush to be admir'd.

-Waller, Edmund
  'Go, lovely rose'.