rosy-checked

“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

“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

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

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

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.

The Long Ago

"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

She recalled the rosy-checked, curly-haired youngster her fancy had created a moment ago.

Dust 1921

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

She recalled the rosy-checked, curly-haired youngster her fancy had created a moment ago.

Dust Marcet Haldeman-Julius 1914

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!"

The Man from Atlantis 1906