" "Bless you, my cherub!
" She pinched Celia's chin, being in the mood now to think her very winning and lovely—fit hereafter to be an eternal cherub, and if it were not doctrinally wrong to say so, hardly more in need of salvation than a squirrel.
" At first I didn't notice the tears, strangely unaccompanied by sound, flowing down her cherub cheeks.
Is it not my own lovely cherub that lies there.
But when Eve plucked the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, when she and Adam were driven from Paradise, there fell from the flaming sword of the cherub a spark into the nest of the bird, which blazed up forthwith.
"Their earthly thoughts met, but my cold beam lay between the two, like the sword of the cherub.
When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love fluttered like a cherub toward heaven, the round Moon hung, half hidden among the dark cypresses, in the lucid air.
