Adjective : sallow cheeks; a sallow complexion. From Dictionary.com.
It usually commences with unnatural sallowness, debility, and low spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
She looked foreign, had that sallowness of skin which he associated with France. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
Pugio was hard, almost stringy, and there was an ashy sallowness about his skin. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
For her dark sallowness, for her wilful mastery, he had only had a passing fancy. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
General sallowness would result, as a matter of course, from assiduous dissipation. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
Yet this doesn't necessarily have to mean that we're all doomed to sags and sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley M. M. Blume: 10 Time-Hallowed, Recession-Proof Tips For Beautification] Reference
It feeds and nourishes the skin, preventing and banishing wrinkles, crow's-feet, and sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their colour. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Time had added to the sallowness of her complexion, and certain cracks in the canvas but intensified her ugliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
I should have been ill and delicate to this day if I had remained there; and as to sallowness, I must plead guilty to that. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
Aunt Melissa, her sister, five years the senior, was tall and strong, but her paleness had long been unhealthily tinted with sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
There it was in all its luscious sallowness, and the smacking of our lips betokened an appreciation of all that we had lost in the weeks gone by. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
A large plumed hat accentuated, her sallowness and sharpness of feature, and her dark eyes, set under heavy black brows, intensified her look of unhealthy pallor. From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
The action of the liver becoming deranged, its eliminative office is imperfectly discharged, and thus sallowness of the face and a bilious-tinged conjunctiva are produced. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
By using this lotion according to directions every lady may have a fresh, rosy tinted complexion of exquisite pearly fairness, free from wrinkles, crow's-feet, and sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Tetlow's pasty sallowness took on a dark red tinge. From Wordnik.com. [The Grain of Dust] Reference
If there is sallowness in the face white accentuates it. From Wordnik.com. [Color Value] Reference
A certain dream sallowness was manifested in that sunlit glimpse. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
The lustre died out of his eyes, and his pallor became sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [The Inner Shrine] Reference
Her skin has lost the sallowness, and her eyes are no longer glassy. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
She was white enough, with the sallowness of the sandhill poor white. From Wordnik.com. [The House Behind the Cedars] Reference
Her skin balanced delicately between a brown pallor and a golden sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
In the cheeks no healthy colour, but an extreme sallowness on all the features. From Wordnik.com. [The Unclassed] Reference
He had outgrown the sallowness of early ill health, and had a fresh, brilliant complexion. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)] Reference
The sallowness of his complexion was emphasized by his almost jet black hair and dark eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Pit Prop Syndicate] Reference
It was rather thin, his cheeks were hollow, and there was an unhealthy sallowness in their color. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
Though he had served in his youth in India, he had none of the Anglo-Indian's sun-scorched sallowness. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
"Oh, that damned light makes it worse!" and rose to restore the room to the sallowness of the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Judge] Reference
The poor man's sallowness had become almost livid, and in half-sobbing words he exclaimed -- 'Is it so?. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
He was a dark man, with a skin of oily sallowness; thickset, with something of the slow ungainliness of a toad. From Wordnik.com. ['Me--Smith'] Reference
He had the gauntness, sallowness of complexion, and deliberateness of manner peculiar to the people of New England. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
The sallowness of his impassive face had increased somewhat, and his long thin hands had their old lackadaisical air. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
Compensate for skin sallowness by using a warm shade -- look for words such as golden, honey, or amber in the product's name. From Wordnik.com. [StyleList] Reference
She held a hand-screen betwixt her face and the fire, but the flush which touched its usual sallowness was not caused by heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of Fort St. John] Reference
The sallowness of his complexion and the blackness of his straight hair, which he wore long, were those of the typical Southerner. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin the Colonel] Reference
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