Impudence

Usage examples of cheek.

Perhaps it was merely a reaction from the slaughter in the streets of Addis Ababa, or the memory of the corpses of the sons of the abuna with their eyeballs hanging on their cheeks and their inunature genitals stuffed into their mouths, but over the next few days the desire to see his son became an obsession.

Like the breath of agelong night, she felt the restless stirring of air on her cheek.

He felt her fear burn away in the cleansing light that flowed through her, watched the soft glow come into her cheeks and her hands as she touched Aisling, resting her palm above the wound.

A deep gash across his cheek wept blood, and she gestured him forward as Amani lifted the boy from the table and passed him to his anxious mother.

Tears had started down his cheeks, and Amara swallowed upon seeing them.

June whisked in looking happy with a pink glow on both cheeks and told me we were low in blue lace agate chips and snowflake obsidian and amazonite beads.

The cool wind of the night blows over the vast spaces of the Sahara and touches her cheek, reminding her of the wind that, at Arba, carried fire towards her as she sat before the tent, reminding her of her glorious days of liberty, of the passion that came to her soul like fire in the desert.

As she saw the last time, the lines seemed especially predominant near his chin, cheeks, nose, and forehead areas, running mostly vertical on his forehead, diagonally and horizontally on his nose, vertically and diagonally on his chin and cheekbones, with a strange sort of oval or circular pattern around his eyes.

Her eyes shone with joy as she patted his cheek as though he were a boy and not a weathered soldier.

Then rose the maiden tender, From stool all golden bound, Her waist is trim and slender, Her bosom full and round, Each dimpled cheek encloses An Astrild, roguish sprite, As when on opening roses, The butterflies alight.

She wept and prayed, on good Balder calling, While down her cheeks were the tear-drops falling.

If the men enjoyed the shade of Balintawak, that was OK with him, he remarked with tongue in cheek.

If he got close enough to Banach, he could anesthetize him with a shot to the cheek and drag him away while Magen dealt with Ivor.

Like the horseman, Batu had dark eyes set wide over broad cheeks, a flat nose with flaring nostrils, and a powerful build.

Ruddy cheeks, blue eyes, beards of light brown and yellow and fiery red proclaimed them Englishmen.