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- noun Obsolete spelling of
cheek .
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Examples
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Nathan lovingly raised Mithridanes from the ground, then kissing his cheeke, and tenderly embracing him, he said.
The Decameron 2004
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For they esteeme it a signe of ill lucke, or a prognostication of euill vnto them, when any man sits in their presence, holding downe his head, as if he were sad: especially when he leanes his cheeke or chinne ypon his hand.
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Wherefore, embracing him, and kissing his cheeke, without any longer dallying, hee sent in like manner for his
The Decameron 2004
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The 9. we sayled into the cheeke with our shippe, and ankered about a small halfe mile from the land, and being ankered there came at the least 70. boates of the Countrey to see our ship, and the King sent vs word that hee was desirous to heare vs shoote off
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For they esteeme it a signe of ill lucke, or a prognostication of euill vnto them, when any man sits in their presence, holding downe his head, as if he were sad: especially when he leanes his cheeke or chinne ypon his hand.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Is not the meanest man in all the land but hee, To buy her painted colours doeth allow his wife a fee, Wherewith she deckes her selfe, and dies her tawnie skinne, She pranks and paints her smoakie face, both brow, lip, cheeke, and chinne.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For _qui junguntur lateribus, socii sunt_, they that walke side to side and cheeke to cheeke, walke as companions.
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The nobleman Sir Nicot having procured it to growe in his garden, where it had put forth and multiplied very greatly, was aduertifed (notified) on a daie by one of his pages, that a yoong boie kinsman of the said page, had laide (for triall sake) the said herbe, pressed, the substance and juice and altogether, upon an ulcer which he had upon his cheeke, neere unto his nose, next neighbor to a
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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The hemicicle or arche rising rownd from the vpper part of the streight cheeke of the entrance, according to the thicknes thereof was disposed into losenges or squares, wherein were carued Roses, theyr leaues and branches hanging in a curious and delightfull order to behoulde, ouer the entry of the Gate.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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And cheeke by cheeke goes, crossing it no breath, 150
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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