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  • The serving maid behind him with a polished pewter pitcher was short and slim, a dark-eyed, pale-cheeked beauty with black curls nestling on her shoulders.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • "It would be far better," pale-cheeked Carlinya cut in icily, "if he had died as the rumors say."

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • In some of the villages they had left, men and women crept back toward their former lives, to the extent of talking about electing their Councils again, but most eyed the sea nervously and made pale-cheeked protests that they meant to hold to the oaths they had been made to swear even if they did not understand them.

    The Great Hunt Jordan, Robert 1990

  • In a cool, fig-tree-shaded court or a shadowy tavern, an ebon-faced merchant from Punt might discuss with an almond-eyed Khitan the disposition of wines from Zingara, or a pale-cheeked Corinthian might speak with a turbaned Vendhyan of the ivory routes to Iranistan.

    Conan The Victorious Jordan, Robert 1984

  • To be sure, tree-cakes are to be had even today, but they are degenerations, weak, spongy, and pale-cheeked, whereas in those days they had a happy firmness, which in the most successful specimens rose to crispness, accompanied by a scale of colors running from the darkest ocher to the brightest yellow.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

  • While the sisters were busy in their appropriate mission, a pale-cheeked lad mingled with the group of merry children, though too weak to share their sports.

    Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

  • Nor was wanting the usual gentle poetry of flowers; for white iris leaned its fairy pavilion over the black void like a pale-cheeked princess from the window of some dark enchanted castle, and scarlet geranium and golden broom and crimson gladiolus waved and glowed in the shifting beams of the sunlight.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • "Stay, my lords!" cried a sweet, clear voice, and forth before them all stood Yolande herself, pale-cheeked but stately of bearing and very bright of eye.

    The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Being come to the plateau I set down my burdens, very thankful for the kindly shade and the sweet, cool wind that stirred up here, and turned to find my companion regarding me pale-cheeked and with eyes wide and horror-struck.

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • But in the yard a pale-cheeked, sharp-eyed urchin was feeding a couple of rabbits in

    The Middle of Things 1899

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