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  • The slight hollows in the cheeks under the high cheek-bones had filled out.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numbed nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand.

    To Build A Fire 2010

  • Kama froze the skin on his cheek-bones, despite frequent rubbings, and the flesh turned black and sore.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • The elder Pocock, known as Pocock I., has been described as follows: ` A long, lean head, semicircled by a fringe of brown and gray hair, with big cheek-bones and a heavy chin, ... a pale face, lustreless gray eyes, a metallic voice, and a languid manner. '

    Chapter 16: The End 2010

  • The cheeks were hollow, and the skin seemed stretched a trifle tightly across the cheek-bones.

    FINIS 2010

  • The shrivelled lips had fallen away from the teeth, and the cheek-bones seemed bursting through the skin.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • The lines of the face were deeper, the cheek-bones higher, the hollows larger, the weather-beat darker.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Something morbid and significant attached to that sunburn, was Martin's thought as he returned to a study of the face, narrow, with high cheek-bones and cavernous hollows, and graced with as delicate and fine an aquiline nose as Martin had ever seen.

    Chapter 31 2010

  • At first she found fault with the more than slight cheek-hollows under the cheek-bones, but when she measured his well-knit, slenderly muscular figure, with its deep chest and heavy shoulders, she discovered that she preferred the hollows; at least they did not imply lack of nutrition.

    CHAPTER 4 2010

  • The cheek-bones were blotched with the blood congested by the debauch that was evidently being slept off.

    THE HOBO AND THE FAIRY 2010

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