She had a thin awkward figure, a sallow skin without colour, dark lank hair, and strong features. From LearnThat.org. [Jane Austen, (1775-1817), English novelist, from Northanger Abbey.]
Abner! "and he called his sallow-faced companion, who was already arguing salvation and temperance with some of the crew. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
As I turned the handle I wondered idly what kind of sallow Turk or bulging-necked German we should find inside. From Wordnik.com. [Greenmantle] Reference
"You've been lookin 'kind of sallow these last days, so I've got a spoonful of molasses and sulphur laid right by yo' plate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Miller Of Old Church] Reference
"You've been lookin 'kind of sallow these last days, so I've got a spoonful of molasses and sulphur, laid right by yo' plate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Miller of Old Church] Reference
To some, Google has been looking a bit sallow lately. From Wordnik.com. [Google and the Search for the Future] Reference
"Consumptive! he who is always as sallow as Debureau.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
Her large dark eyes looked pathetic in her thin sallow face. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
They had come, hands free of ash, already soaking wet, sallow. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Day the Khoi-Khoi Meet Bartolomeu Dias and Crew] Reference
He was a sallow-complexioned man, with thin, clean-shaven lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Even the sallow hue of them seemed to be changing in his cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
I found him terribly enfeebled; greatly emaciated; sallow complexion. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
As aunt Hannah listened, there came a glow upon her sallow cheeks, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
I recognized, under the cowl, the thin, sallow face and the sombre eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
And then he looked up smiling, and stroked her little sallow face with one finger. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
When she turns around, she sees Ruth, staring at her with dark and sallow malevolence. From Wordnik.com. [Lost In Translation] Reference
Her skin was sallow and unwholesome; yellow-gray rings added dulness to her black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Some hung a cross, made of the elder and the sallow entwined, about the children's neck. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
You may have noticed that the complexion of the U.S. economy has turned a bit sallow of late. From Wordnik.com. [The Fed Is Running Low on Ammo] Reference
The circulation becomes defective, and this brings flabby tissues and a wrinkled, sallow skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Beautiful or, The Art of Beauty Culture] Reference
Rebecca Frayne's head came up and a spot of vivid red appeared in either of her sallow cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding At College or The Missing Examination Papers] Reference
The owner of the house, a thin sallow-faced man with pale shifting eyes came out to speak to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
Sitting in the back of the truck, packed in like cargo, their faces sallow, shirts too big, sagging. From Wordnik.com. [The Bridge] Reference
He was a slim, sallow lad of seventeen, with a straw-colored pompadour crowning his freckled forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Her skin, bronzed and sallow, looked not unlike the hard, fine wood-work of the loom, oiled with constant use. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
She was a lovely creature, that fair Isabel, more beautiful from contrast with the sallow child that bent over her. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Four red spots flamed giddily out in their four sallow cheeks, and eight shining knitting needles suddenly became idle. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
The usually sallow complexion of the business man was tinged with excitement, his eyes, as a rule so hard, were gentler. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
His skin is sallow, his hair is thin and wispy, and his eyes which are dull and lifeless have sunk far back into his skull. From Wordnik.com. [That's It] Reference
The croupier, a small, sallow-faced chap, shoved a stack of coins and a few bills at Hawkes when he went to the rostrum to claim his winnings. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
The white cosmetic came away, showing sallow skin and on it a faint tattoo in the form of an "S" styled like a yin-yang symbol left a little open. From Wordnik.com. [No Great Magic] Reference
I looked up, and saw that the voice and hand belonged to the same person -- a short, stout man, with sallow complexion and glistening black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference
A sallow, sandy-haired young man, with pale protruding blue eyes and thin curling lips, sprawled low behind the wheel of his roadster, leering familiarly at her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Frank Lavender could not make out why the taciturn and sallow-faced man walking beside him seemed to be greatly amused by this speech, but he was in no humor to take offence. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
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