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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Cheek
 
  Cheeks as brown as oak leaves.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Cheek as the blood of the dragon bright.
            —Arabian Nights		  2
  The down on his cheeks dispread like myrtles springing from the heart of a bright red rose.
            —Arabian Nights		  3
  Cheeks like blood-red anemones.
            —Arabian Nights		  4
  John Bull looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
            —John Arbuthnot		  5
  Upon her tender cheek the mingled dye is scattered, of the lily and the rose.
            —Ariosto		  6
  Checks, like men who live, and draw the vital air.
            —Matthew Arnold		  7
  The blood within her crystal cheekes did such a colour drive,
As though the lillye and the rose for mastership did strive.
            —English Ballad		  8
  Her cheeks like living roses glow.
            —Scottish Ballad		  9
  Cheeks as soft as July peaches.
            —William Cox Bennett		  10
  Her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom as a wild rose.
            —Emily Brontë		  11
  Cheeks full and swollen, like a ploughboy’s.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  12
  Her cheek like the spray o’ th’ sea.
            —Alice Cary		  13
  Cheeks as brown as sun could kiss them.
            —Alice Cary		  14
  Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud that beautifies Aurora’s face.
            —Henry Constable		  15
There’s a mantling flush that dwells in his cheeks,
Like a roseleaf thrown on the snow.
            —Eliza Cook		  16
  With a cheek like a burning rose.
            —Barry Cornwall		  17
  Like a rose set in snow was the bloom on her cheek.
            —John Crawford		  18
  Her glowing cheeks like youthful Hebe’s fair.
            —John Cunningham		  19
  A blooming pair of vermeil cheeks, like Hebe’s in her ruddiest hours.
            —George Darley		  20
Your cheeks of late are like bad printed books,
So dimly charactered, I scarce can spell
One line of love in them.
            —Thomas Dekker		  21
  Her cheeks were like the roses red.
            —Michael Drayton		  22
                The frighted blood
Scarce yet recalled to her pale cheeks,
Like the first streaks of light broke loose from darkness,
And dawning into blushes.
            —John Dryden		  23
  Cheeks pearly as those of Pallas of Virgil.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  24
  A cheek like an apple-blossom.
            —George Eliot		  25
  Lovely her cheeks were, like berries red.
            —Ancient Erse		  26
  Her cheeks are as red as the rose’s sheen.
            —Sir Samuel Ferguson		  27
  His cheek is like the rose of spring.
            —Firdausi		  28
  Cheek crimsoned like the bloom of the pomegranate.
            —Firdausi		  29
  Her cheeks, as snowy apples sopt in wines.
            —Giles Fletcher		  30
  Cheeks are as round and as red as a cherry.
            —David Garrick		  31
That human, humorous mouth; those cheeks [Lincoln’s] that hold
Like some harsh landscape all the summer’s gold.
            —Richard Watson Gilder		  32
  Cheeks like the rose on a bed of snow.
            —Alfred Perceval Graves		  33
A cheek wherein for interchange of hue
A wrangling strife ’twixt lily and the rose.
            —Robert Greene		  34
  Her cheeks, like rose and lily yield forth gleams.
            —Robert Greene		  35
Her cheeks like ripened lilies steeped in wine,
Or fair pomegranate kernels washed in milk,
Or snow-white threads in nests of crimson silk,
Or gorgeous clouds upon the sun’s decline.
            —Robert Greene		  36
  Cheeks that shamed the rose.
            —John Harrington		  37
  Cheeks like creame enclairited.
            —Robert Herrick		  38
  Cheeks like roses when they blow.
            —Robert Herrick		  39
  Cheeks as ripe as apples.
            —Leigh Hunt		  40
  Her cheeks like winter apples red of hue.
            —Jean Ingelow		  41
  Cheeks as pink as a seashell.
            —Mary Johnston		  42
  Cheeks for all the world like a roseberry ice upon a ground of custard.
            —Hugh Kelly		  43
Her cheek was as a rainbow, it so changed,
As each emotion o’er its surface ranged.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  44
Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud,
  That beautifies Aurora’s face;
Or like the silver crimson shroud,
  That Phœbus’ smiling looks doth grace.
            —Thomas Lodge		  45
  Cheeks like the dawn of day.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  46
  Your cheeks are roses fair yet pink.
            —Catulle Mendès		  47
  Cheek was wan as clay.
            —William J. Mickle		  48
  Her cheek was as white and cold as clay.
            —Winthrop Mackworth Praed		  49
  Cheeks like peaches.
            —Francis S. Saltus		  50
  Cheeks like Punic apples are.
            —George Sandys		  51
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp.
            —William Shakespeare		  52
  Had wet their cheeks, like trees bedashed with rain.
            —William Shakespeare		  53
  Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded.
            —Edmund Spenser		  54
  His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers.
            —Old Testament		  55
  His cheeks, as roses red, as lilies fair.
            —William Thomson		  56
Her cheeks are as the fading stain
Where the peach reddens to the south.
            —Oscar Wilde		  57
  Her cheek was like the moist heart of a rose.
            —N. P. Willis		  58
  Cheeks were red as ruddy clover.
            —William Wordsworth		  59
 
 
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