loose-cheek'd

Updated: May 1, 2025

For this slow, loose-cheek'd vintner was no less than father to Will Davenant, our Laureate, and had belike read no other verse in his life but those at the bottom of his own pint-pots. "Top of the stairs," says he, indicating my way, "and open the door ahead of you, if y'are the young gentleman Master Killigrew spoke of."

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - The Splendid Spur