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cheeks

«Augustus was a chubby lad; / Fat ruddy cheeks Augustus had; / And everybody saw with joy / The plump and hearty healthy boy.»
«I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.»
«I went home and did some rehearsing to satisfy my curiosity about whether I could play an Italian. I put on some makeup, stuffed Kleenex in my cheeks, and worked out the characterization first in front of a mirror, then on a television monitor. After working on it, I decided I could create a characterization that would support the story. The people at Paramount saw the footage and liked it, and that's how I became the Godfather.»
«His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.»
«Meanwhile, in the broad and lofty chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backwards and forwards, with his long white nervous hands clasped in front of him. His thin, thought-worn features and sunken, haggard cheeks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, but had none the less suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing his passions he had well-nigh crushed himself.»
«Her pure and eloquent blood / Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, / That one might almost say, her body thought.»
«If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown: Then if she fear or be to blame, By this you shall not know, For still her cheeks possess the same, Which native s»
«Beauty?s ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death?s pale flag is not advanced there.»
«Let not women's weapons, water-drops,Stain my man's cheeks!»
«Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!»

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