[…] and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked, and flat-nosed, he was lost in astonishment, and could not utter a word. 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, New York: Century, 1907, p. 146, https://archive.org/details/travelswithdonke02stev I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine. 1891, Oscar Wilde, “Chapter II”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729: Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly.... 1973, William Buck (translator), Mahabharata, New York: Meridian, 1993, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 76, Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path […] 1983, Mark Zebrowski, Deccani painting, page 73: The earliest painting that can be attributed to his reign is of a plump, rosy-cheeked adolescent wearing a splendid conical turban and a huge emerald necklace. ]
