Word: cheeking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Oscar Wilde Wednesday evening, over one-half were Yale students. The Yalensians were equipped with several sunflowers, one being at least three feet in diameter, and opening like a fan. After it had been applauded once a special constable squelched it. When Oscar spoke of kissing reason's cheek, kisses were thrown him from all over the hall. He won applause by saying: "How much you Yale student-athletes have done on the field and wave," and suggesting that some of them might be subjects for statues illustrating strength and manly beauty. After the lecture Oscar tired out the students...
...Ibex crouched low behind the chandelier, adjusted his lung-protector, and replied, while a tear coursed down his cheek, "Easy, please, and a little at a time...
Blithely they spring from log to log, and the blood tingles in the proud cheek of Diggles. What if Washington did cross the Delaware on the ice, was not this...
...entered the sanctum simultaneously through different doors, and a bright blush suffused the tear-stained cheek of the maiden as she saw a frill of "Hamburg edging" peeping from under the modest coat-sleeve of the youth. He gave one look, and a long, convulsive shudder shook his manly frame as he perceived a shirt-button peeping from beneath the lace about her neck...
...kept on. Even with him beside me, I kept on. He talked cheerily, and I answered in monosyllables at first, then at random, wildly; I saw him looking at me with an expression of curious concern; and I saw a spot of red, like blood, in his left cheek. That is the reason, the only reason...