The sturdy figures and healthy blooming faces of these girls, "with cheeks like apples which the sun has Ruddied," showed what physical charms the bracing mountain air and a simple manner of life in these regions is capable of producing.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Other villages and farms, while just as well-kept and well-to-do, have, so to say, a something romantic about their prosperity, a bounteous, ruddy, golden-age look about them, as though Nature herself had been the farmer and they had Ruddied and ripened out of her own unconscious abundance-the difference between a row of modern box beehives and the old thatched-cottage kind.
"October Vagabonds"
Richard Le Gallienne
It did not deepen the hue of his Ruddied skin.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith