(..) and perceiving her to be no more than a plain country-wench, so far from being well-favoured, that she was blubber-cheeked, and flat-nosed, he was lost in astonishment, and could not utter a word.
1879, (w), (w), New York: Century, 1907, p. 146, https://archive.org/details/travelswithdonke02stev
I pictured to myself some grizzled, apple-cheeked, country schoolmaster fluting in his bit of garden in the clear autumn sunshine.
1890, (w), (w), London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1916, Chapter II, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26740/26740-h/26740-h.htm
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. You will become sallow, and hollow-cheeked, and dull-eyed. You will suffer horribly....
1973, William Buck (translator), (w), New York: Meridian, 1993, Part Two, Chapter 6, p. 76,
Past rivers and hills she went, and met a bushy-cheeked tiger on the path (..)