cheeks

• If the china-makers had wanted to, they could just as easily have turned him out as a prince, for he had a jaunty way of holding his ladder, and his cheeks were as pink as a girl's. —  Storynory - Stories For Kids
• Now she felt as if she had been wrong to let her thoughts go wandering, and her cheeks were almost as bright as the scarlet flowers themselves, as she clambered back to the wagon seat. —  A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
• Often, when her excellent mother observed that she had sat too long over her books, she would get her out upon the floor of their large kitchen, and then, striking up a lively song, set her dancing until her cheeks were all aglow This studious and happy girl, like other young people, had her day-dream of the future. —  Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
• How your cheeks were then changing from olive to white. —  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
• When the cruel men heard this, far from being moved to compassion, they began to make game of the grief of this most afflicted Mother: they pointed at her, and one of them took the nails which were to be used for fastening Jesus to the cross, and presented them to her in an insulting manner; but she turned away, fixed her eyes upon Jesus, who was drawing near, and leant against the pillar for support, lest she should again faint from grief, for her cheeks were as pale as death, and her lips almost blue. —  The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ

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