Here is a list of some of the adjectives used by writers for describing 'cheeks'. The phrases used in question Nos. 601 to 610 are shown in italics. Pl. fill in the blanks using the adjectives, noting down on a piece of paper. After finishing, if you consider necessary, you can consult the key. Your answers and the answers in the key need not tally because, choice of adjectives is always a question of preferences.
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LIST OF ADJECTIVAL PHRASES DESCRIBING 'CHEEKS'
Blushing cheeks
Cold cheeks,curved cheeks
Dimpled cheeks, disturbed cheeks
Glorious cheeks, glowing cheeks
Hairless cheeks, hollow cheeks, honey cheeks
Leather-colored cheeks, livid cheeks, loathsome cheeks
Pale cheeks, pallid cheeks, pink cheeks, plump cheeks
Radiant cheeks, reddened cheeks, rosy cheeks, rounded cheeks, ruddy cheeks
Shining cheeks, smooth cheeks, Soft cheeks, sun-bronzed cheeks, sunburnt cheeks, sunken cheeks, sun-tanned cheeks
Tanned cheeks, tearful cheeks
Undewed cheeks
White cheeks, the whitest cheeks
601.With _______ cheeks and rapid eyes
We sit where none espies;
Till a harsh change comes edging in
As no such scene were there,
But winter, and I were bent and thin,
And cinder-gray my hair.
[Thomas Hardy in his poem 'The dreams is-which'].
602. Like apple-blossoms, white and red;
Like hues of dawn, which fly too soon;
Like bloom of peach, so softly spread;
Like thorn of May and rose of June -
Oh, sweet! oh, fair! beyond compare,
Are Daphne's cheeks,
Are Daphne's ________ cheeks, I swear.
[Burton Egbert Stevenson in his poem 'To Daphine'].
603. I might perceive his eye in her eye lost,
His ear to drink her sweet tongue's utterance,
And changing passion, like inconstant clouds
That rack upon the carriage of the winds,
Increase and die in his _________ cheeks. [William Shakespeare in his play 'King Edward III, Act 2, Scene 1'].
604. There she stood, frozen to the ground, gazing with staring eyes, and _____ cheeks, and every feature fixed and ghastly, upon the man he had encountered in the dark last night. [Charles Dickens in his 'Barnabe Rudge'].
605. E'en as a dog, that yelling bays for food
His keeper, when the morsel comes, lets fall
His fury, bent alone with eager haste
To swallow it; so dropp'd the _________ cheeks
Of demon Cerberus, who thund'ring stuns
The spirits, that they for deafness wish in vain.
[Dante Alighierie in 'The Vision of Hell, Part 3'].
606. Nostromo turned to his affianced wife with a greeting, and was
amazed at her sunken eyes, at her ______ cheeks, at the air of illness and anguish in her face. [Joseph Conrad in his book 'Nostromo: A tale of the Sea Board'].
607. "He is the tall hard-faced man in yellow silk, he with the
_______ cheeks and the split lip. He is little older than
yourself, and his father was a cobbler in Chester, yet he has
already won the golden spurs. [Arthur Conan Doyle in his book 'Sir Nigel'].
608."As he looks in my face where no longer the rose
In my once _______ cheeks in its loveliness grows,
And marks the white locks mingling faster each day
With the brown that old Time is fast stealing away.
[Mary D. Brine in her poem 'Grandma's memories'].
609."...Josephine will appear before you, with all her fascinations. She will explain matters. You will forgive all, and tranquillity will be restored." "Never!" exclaimed Napoleon, with ______ cheek and trembling lip, striding nervously too and fro, through the room, "never! I forgive! ever!" [John S.C. Abbott in his book 'Napoleon Bonaparte'].
610. All, our prime mother lost, avail'd to save
My _______ cheeks from blur of soiling tears.
"Dante, weep not, that Virgil leaves thee: nay,
Weep thou not yet: behooves thee feel the edge
Of other sword, and thou shalt weep for that."
[Dante in his 'Divine Comedy : Purgatory'].
