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Examples
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“The last, dad!” the lad shouted back, pulling in the horse, and, smiling, he looked round at a bright, rosy-checked peasant girl who sat in the cart smiling too, and drove on.
Anna Karenina 2003
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“You always get younger, Bondarenko,” he said to the rosy-checked, smart-looking quartermaster standing just before him, still youngish looking though doing his second term of service.
Anna Karenina 2003
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Then at least life would have been interesting; now it was dull as ditch-water, with wretched vistas of stagnant waiting between now and that joyful day when I could claim that dear, rosy-checked girl for my own.
Gulliver of Mars 1996
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What, then, is there to put over against these terrible statements of excessive labor of six or seven hours a day, under which young brains are reeling and young spines are bending until there are no rosy-checked urchins and blooming maids left among us?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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It was delivered by a round-faced, rosy-checked, gingham-gowned picture of health, whose apron-strings barely met around the middle - for Frau Hummel brought it herself - after having first milked the cows with her own hands and wielded the churning-stick with her own stout German arms.
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"You bet," said the brown-haired, rosy-checked one slangily.
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run Laura Lee Hope
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She recalled the rosy-checked, curly-haired youngster her fancy had created a moment ago.
Dust 1921
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Ralph heard her giving orders to attentive, rosy-checked men in white aprons, and in spite of his own preoccupation, he commented upon the determination with which she made her wishes known.
Night and Day 1920
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She recalled the rosy-checked, curly-haired youngster her fancy had created a moment ago.
Dust Marcet Haldeman-Julius 1914
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Before me were the two old graybeards quarreling over the rosy-checked princess; I heard the astrologer exclaim "The monarch of a mole-hill to claim sway over him who possesses the talisman of Solomon!"
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