Word: cheeking
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...stooping over the food on the bench, eating very much in the manner of a ravenous animal. . . . Now he lifted his head, and Frossia saw a face as flawlessly chiseled as any she had ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
...former Ambassador to the U.S., in the Museum of Modern Art Bulletin: "Any child in Russia, Europe, or England, might do the counterpart. . . . A war child of the West would also know, as instinctively as the Chinese child, that a black line drawn along the hollow of the cheek is enough to describe hunger, and that people with empty stomachs seldom stand...
...With tongue in cheek, pointing up the ideological confusion of the U.S. and Britain by backing them up further than they wanted to be backed...
...title page in orange and black as handsome as the reproductions of colonial printers' masterpieces it contains. Between its red, 'white & blue covers it contains approximately 1,500 illustrations. Sometimes it seems as jumbled as a mail-order catalogue, and as absorbing. Here is the great tradition cheek by jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views...
...Vienna, to the ruins of the millennial empire whose prewar life he had affectionately reported, and to Soviet Budapest, where Béla Kun reigned and the Red Terror was on. ("I shall never forget Béla Kun as I now saw him at close quarters and cheek-by-jowl with his coterie of conspirators. . . . He had a round bulbous head and his hair was so closely shaven that he seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people suggested, but under...