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  • An amply proportioned, headless torso in modern dress, in the Frick's lower-level temporary exhibition galleries, prepares us for the coda, installed upstairs: a group of full-cheeked, enigmatic heads, modern-day sisters of the Museum of Modern Art's three classically garbed goddesses at a fountain.

    Portrait of a Restless Artist as a Young Man Karen Wilkin 2011

  • But where Dywel was a big, darkly handsome, square-jawed man, with streaks of white at the temples of his tightly curling black hair, Taliesin was sleekly plump in his fine cream-colored wool tunic and breeches, with an oiled dark beard and a full-cheeked face.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • But where Dywel was a big, darkly handsome, square-jawed man, with streaks of white at the temples of his tightly curling black hair, Taliesin was sleekly plump in his fine cream-colored wool tunic and breeches, with an oiled dark beard and a full-cheeked face.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • Her full-cheeked countenance creased with concern.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • But where Dywel was a big, darkly handsome, square-jawed man, with streaks of white at the temples of his tightly curling black hair, Taliesin was sleekly plump in his fine cream-colored wool tunic and breeches, with an oiled dark beard and a full-cheeked face.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • I released yet another full-cheeked sigh and rolled my eyes, knowing all ten cases would have to be tagged and marked before they could be put away.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith Jack Canfield 2008

  • I released yet another full-cheeked sigh and rolled my eyes, knowing all ten cases would have to be tagged and marked before they could be put away.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Catholic Faith Jack Canfield 2008

  • At first glance his was a face rounded and glossy with good living, full-lipped, full-cheeked, and self-indulgent.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • At first glance his was a face rounded and glossy with good living, full-lipped, full-cheeked, and self-indulgent.

    The Heretic's Apprentice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1989

  • He had grown tall and slim in those latter days; his face would have seemed -- if not handsome altogether -- at least notable and pleasant to any other community than this, which ever preferred to have its men full-cheeked, bronzed, robust.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

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