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Cheek in sentence

265 examples of Cheek in a sentence

"Why, didn't she have the cheek to say just now that she would strangle Catherine if she were to come to that?
Besides, with cheek a man always gets on in the world."
The upper part of her cheek was rose-coloured.
In bed, in the morning, by her side, on the pillow, he watched the sunlight sinking into the down on her fair cheek, half hidden by the lappets of her night-cap.
Berthe fell at the foot of the drawers against the brass handle, cutting her cheek, which began to bleed, against it.
Big tears lay in the corner of the half-closed eyelids, through whose lashes one could see two pale sunken pupils; the plaster stuck on her cheek drew the skin obliquely.
"Does this amuse you?" said he, bending over her so closely that the end of his moustache brushed her cheek.
His cheek, with the soft skin reddened, she thought, with desire of her person, and Emma felt an invincible longing to press her lips to it.
She felt against her cheek his panting breath.
'He may live to rue the day, that fine gentleman from Paris,' M. de Renal was saying in a tone of annoyance, his cheek paler even than was its wont.
Troubled, no longer conscious of what he was doing, he moved his cheek in the direction of this pretty arm, and made bold to press his lips to it.
As they returned to the drawing-room, towards midnight, Madame de Renal murmured in his ear:'Are you leaving us, are you going away?'Julien answered with a sigh:'I must indeed go away, for I love you passionately; it is a sin ... and what a sin for a young priest!'Madame de Renal leaned upon his arm, bending towards him until her cheek felt the warmth of his.
Despite all his hypocrisy, which he kept in such constant practice, he felt a large tear trickle down his cheek.
Suddenly he saw a cheek pressed to the pane to which his eye was applied.
I give her a kiss, a final kiss, I go up to my room and kill myself ... ; my lips will have touched her cheek before I die!'
As his eyesight failed, K. saw the two gentlemen cheek by cheek, close in front of his face, watching the result.
Then Night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand upon our fevered head, and turns our little tear-stained faces up to hers, and smiles; and, though she does not speak, we know what she would say, and lay our hot flushed cheek against her bosom, and the pain is gone.
"Ah! would ye!" growled Montmorency, showing his teeth; "I'll teach ye to cheek a hard-working, respectable dog; ye miserable, long-nosed, dirty- looking scoundrel, ye.
After they had come back from taking his father to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring dry-eyed at the table.
Young Wharton tapped his sister on the cheek, with a smile, as he asked her, in an affected whisper, "Did he tell you also that he loved my little sister Fanny?""Nonsense!" said Frances; and the remnants of the supper-table soon disappeared under her superintendence.
Such had been the case with Sarah, and she dropped her eyes on the carpet with a smile, that, aided by the blush which suffused her cheek, in no degree detracted from her native charms.
The pale cheek of the trader showed an unusual color, but he continued silent, with his eyes fixed on the ground, until the young man added, with great positiveness, "Here I stay this night, come what will."
"Why," said the captain, laughing, "I do acknowledge a little inquietude myself - but how was it with you?" turning to his younger and evidently favorite sister, and tapping her cheek.
"You appear so close an observer of things, I should like your opinion of it, sir," said Henry, removing the silk, and exhibiting the cheek free from blemish.
The half-formed expectations of the young soldier were communicated to the desponding sister, more by the eye than the voice, and the blood rushed again to her cheek, as she cried,-"Oh, there can be no just grounds to doubt it.
"Major Dunwoodie," said Frances, in a voice barely audible, as she beckoned to him to be seated; her cheek, which had been of a chilling whiteness, was flushed with a suffusion that crimsoned her whole countenance.
"You then reject my offered hand?" she said, rising with dignity, though her pale cheek and quivering lip plainly showed the conflicting passions within.
The paleness of his cheek and the languor of his eye endured but for a moment longer.
"How well he ride - teach him good deal myself - salute a young lady - Miss Fanny wouldn't let old colored man kiss a red cheek."
"Your pulse even and soft, your skin moist, but your eye fiery, and cheek flushed.
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