warm-checked

Updated: June 25, 2025

The hated one took her way into Wanley. She had no pleasant mission that of letting her mother and Letty know what had happened. The latter she found in the garden behind the house dancing her baby-boy up and down in the sunlight. Letty did not look very matronly, it must be confessed; but what she lacked in mature dignity was made up in blue-eyed and warm-checked happiness.

George Gissing - Demos

For the latter's diffidence as the day aged became a flushed and warm-checked thing, until at four in the afternoon Steve could no longer withhold the suggestion for which wordlessly, Garry was asking. "Joe was more than half right," he remarked, one eye to his level, "in spite of the fact that we refused to take him seriously.

Larry Evans - Then I'll Come Back to You