flower-cheek

Updated: July 8, 2025

And lo, what she carried in her beak twinkled and trembled and shone in many colors, like a drop of dew on a velvet flower-cheek. When Whitebird saw this sight, he nearly tumbled off his perch with excitement. "It is a diamond!" he cried aloud; "oh, it is a real diamond!"

Abbie Farwell Brown - The Curious Book of Birds