His cheeks, smooth as a girl's, were touched with color.
Tom, smoking his pipe and cuddling his youngest-born on his knees, dropped an eyelid surreptitiously on his cheek in token that Sarah was in a tantrum.
There was no answer except her sister's
cheek against her own, not even tears, for when most deeply moved, Jo did not cry.
His arm is stealing round the waist again; it is tightening its clasp; he is bending his face nearer and nearer to the round
cheek; his lips are meeting those pouting child-lips, and for a long moment time has vanished.
our summer atones with its mildness for the dreariness and perils of our winter; it has even given me a colour, pale-face as I am--I can feel it burn on my
cheek."
A faint colour came into her
cheeks, and then her face became white -- more than white, ghastly; you felt that the blood had shrunk away from the whole surface of her body; and even her hands were pale.
Her eyes were wonderfully soft, the pink upon her
cheeks was the blush of a girl.
Augustine's
cheek flushed; but he only observed, with his usual sarcastic carelessness.
Also, with quick, critical eye, she noted a scar on his
cheek, another that peeped out from under the hair of the forehead, and a third that ran down and disappeared under the starched collar.
To explain this conversation it must be mentioned that in the centre of Georgiana's left
cheek there was a singular mark, deeply interwoven, as it were, with the texture and substance of her face.
"A bullet did come my way and just graze my
cheek," he admitted.
"Let me put one little kiss on those holmberry lips, Tess, or even on that warmed
cheek, and I'll stop--on my honour, I will!"