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"Seek in that cheek for the dimples that hide Quite from the sight; then a moment descried, Fly from your eye, half confessed, half denied."
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"The dimples in Her cheeks and chin Are snares which Love hath set, And I have fallen in!"
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A dimple, also called a gelasin, and a fovea buccalis, is a small natural indentation in the flesh on a part of the human body, most notably in the cheek. Numerous cultures believe that cheek dimples are a good luck charm that entices people who perceive them as physically attractive, but they are also associated with heroism and innocence, which has been included in literature for many centuries.
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"Then did she lift her hands unto his chin, And praised the pretty dimpling of his skin."
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"She smiled, and more of pleasure than disdain Was in her dimpled chin and liberal lip."
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"She had the mouth that smiles in repose. The lips met full on the centre of the bow and thinned along to a lifting dimple."
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"... Adonis smiles as in disdain, That in each cheek appears a pretty dimple; Love made those hollows; if himself were slain, He might be buried in a tomb so simple; Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie, Why, there Love lived and there he could not die."
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