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  • He goes to one knee beside the cot, then recoils when he sees my face, the sallow skin, the swollen lips, and the sunken bloodshot eyes that are the telltale signs of the plague.†   (source)
  • Chang Sacha, the market baker, was barely recognizable with her swollen eyelids and sallow skin.†   (source)
  • I stared at the two strange faces across the booth, sallow in the artificial lights.†   (source)
  • That would teach Mam a lesson for marrying a man from the North with sallow skin, an odd manner and a look of the Presbyterian about him.†   (source)
  • And with that, time moves ever onwards—ALBUS's eyes become darker, his face grows more sallow.†   (source)
  • Sallow, bald early, and with pale pouches under his eyes, he wasn't anybody I wanted to sleep with.†   (source)
  • He had a sallow, pockmarked face, and his black eyes were suspicious.†   (source)
  • The Consul looked at the thin face, cheekbones pressing against sallow flesh, eyes large but hooded in deep hollows, thin lips set in a permanent twitch of muscle too downturned to be called even a cynical smile, the hairline not so much receding as ravaged by radiation, and he felt he was looking at a man who had been ill for years.†   (source)
  • And then Mike staggered through the door, now supporting a sallow-looking Lee Stephens, another boy in our Biology class.†   (source)
  • The light in the room was sallow, the sun already well into its descent.†   (source)
  • A tall sallow-faced young man arrived from Pickwick one morning to teach me how to conduct the drills.†   (source)
  • She looked at him with sallow, sunken contempt.†   (source)
  • His cheeks are sallow, his skin looks gray and papery, and his eyes are bloodshot.†   (source)
  • In his late thirties, he was an unathietic, sallow little man.†   (source)
  • After so many days living by torchlight, gaslight, and eerie witchlight, the fluorescent lighting made things look sallow and unnatural.†   (source)
  • His skin was that sallow color, as usual, but he looked tired.†   (source)
  • Sallow skin.†   (source)
  • His skin was sallow and his bones pressed tight against his skin.†   (source)
  • She could feel every vertebra poking out from her sallow skin.†   (source)
  • He looked up at me, and I noticed for the first time that all the roundness had returned to his face, his cheeks filled out and rosy again after his illness had drained them thin and sallow.†   (source)
  • I could see my mother's face, anxious and sallow as a slice of lemon, peering up at me through the windshield.†   (source)
  • The lampposts burned an eerie, sallow color that did little against the thick fog brewing along the streets.†   (source)
  • Next to me, Liam's foot slipped against the sallow dust collected on the floor.†   (source)
  • A second later, the fluorescent light over her head flickered, buzzed, and then came on, bathing everything in a gray, sallow light.†   (source)
  • The sallow cheek of the tall woman across from her reddened; the short chin wabbled a bit more than the mastication of the biscuit in hand demanded; a moisture appeared in the inexpressive blue eyes; but she managed a shaky laugh to assist the chorus which always followed Pap Himes's little jokes.†   (source)
  • He saw a vacant field in a city in the rain and in the field a wooden crate and he saw a dog emerge from the crate into the slack and sallow lamplight like a carnival dog forlorn and pick its way brokenly across the rubble of the lot to vanish without fanfare among the darkened buildings.†   (source)
  • Her skin was sallow, her eye sockets dark and sunken.†   (source)
  • When a judge ruled that the prosecution couldn't do this, they decided to try me for manslaughter and again I thought why not, considering the recklessness of the act, but my lawyer Imperato, a man with sallow jowls and a briefcase that was shedding skin, arranged a plea deal and they went for a lesser charge and now I stood looking at the golf course on a soft summer morning a few days before my release and saw that someone had painted names all over the ramparts and windmills, the…†   (source)
  • The skinny, sallow-cheeked fellow nodded.†   (source)
  • In one of the windows he caught a glimpse of a sallow face with sly, slanting eyes; but it vanished at once.†   (source)
  • He entered a filmy, sallow light.†   (source)
  • It was Michaela, the skinny maid with the merry disposition and homely sallow face, and she was waking him up because he had a visitor waiting just outside the door.†   (source)
  • The gaunt, sallow-faced woman looked annoyed; obviously she assumed that Bourne was a discontented customer.†   (source)
  • With sickness widespread in Philadelphia there was much hacking and coughing in Congress and many a long, sallow look.†   (source)
  • Despite her care, Javier's skin turns sallow and thins until it looks as if she could strip it away in papery sheets.†   (source)
  • None had any defiance left; especially not Ser Wylis, a bushy-faced tub of suet with dull eyes and sallow, sagging jowls.†   (source)
  • She had coarse black hair and a sallow, ferretlike face.†   (source)
  • Her face is sallow, her skin sagging over her bones.†   (source)
  • He was a tall, emaciated man, with jerky movements, a sallow face and the restless, unfocused eyes of a drug addict.†   (source)
  • Newman had the thin, cunning face of a mongrel with a complexion so white and sallow that his skin looked like the crust of a Camembert.†   (source)
  • His face was so bony and gaunt that at times his sallow skin appeared transparent, but his pale blue eyes were sharp and belied a canny stealth and intelligence.†   (source)
  • They looked much older than Sunny, at least twice her age, sallow and fleshy and long-traveled from their youth.†   (source)
  • The attorney Giuliani was sallow and gray, so that everything that was white and silver in him seemed to be bright.†   (source)
  • They found her bewilderingly unattractive—sallow and unhealthy-looking, and lacking any sign of spirit.†   (source)
  • For the job of killing Johnson, Booth selects a simpleton drifter named George Atzerodt, a German carriage repairer with a sallow complexion and a fondness for drink.†   (source)
  • His face looked strangely melancholy and sallow; his hands might have been candles, he might have been about to bless her like a priest on Ash Wednesday.†   (source)
  • His skin was sallow and he squinted when he smiled.†   (source)
  • Feet apart and braced a thin, sallow woman, very pregnant, leaned against the wall.†   (source)
  • Also, I felt that underneath that healthy suntan there lingered the sallowness of a body not wholly rescued from a terrible crisis.†   (source)
  • The taxi driver, a sallow, yellowish man, shriveled like a chickpea with the cold, said, "I wouldn't take you more than a couple of blocks near.†   (source)
  • I told the gray-haired, sallow-faced, spaniel-eyed old man that I felt we might be creating a monster and committing the ultimate invasion of human privacy.†   (source)
  • The face was soft, sallow under the dimgaslight, but the eyes were piercing.†   (source)
  • His neck and arms and legs were sallow and thin.†   (source)
  • The thin rain hung in the air, so that the light from the arc lamps was sallow and chalky, screening the world beyond.†   (source)
  • The door was opened by the master of the house, a polite young man with a sallow complexion and dark, melancholy eyes.†   (source)
  • His skin, in spite of being sunburned a deep brown, has a parched sallowness.†   (source)
  • She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist, "Drink to me only with thine eyes, and I will pledge with mine," she sang, softly, quietly, slowly.†   (source)
  • The illness has sallowed her face.
    sallowed = an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion
  • His face was sallow under the light.   (source)
  • And then there was Parwana, shuffling next to her, with her flat chest and sallow complexion.†   (source)
  • Viktor Krum was thin, dark, and sallow-skinned, with a large curved nose and thick black eyebrows.†   (source)
  • The plump witch got out and a sallow-skinned wizard with a very mournful face got in.†   (source)
  • Harry noted the goblin's sallow skin, his long thin fingers, his black eyes.†   (source)
  • Snape's sallow skin had gone the color of sour milk.†   (source)
  • A dull flush of color mounted the sallow cheeks as he looked at Lily.†   (source)
  • The sallow, puffy-eyed doctor who saw us introduced himself as a second-year resident.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was the light, but already I looked sallower, unhealthy.†   (source)
  • I pulled the blanket back up to his chest where ribs stretched his thin, sallow skin.†   (source)
  • Lily had reached a pillar and leaned against it, looking up into the thin, sallow face.†   (source)
  • Snape looked no more than nine or ten years old, sallow, small, stringy.†   (source)
  • A thin boy, a little sallow, and a tad short for his twelve years.†   (source)
  • "It's been a bad year for wolves," volunteered a sallow man in a travel-stained green cloak.†   (source)
  • The rest of his face was handsome, if sallow.†   (source)
  • There were bags under her eyes, and her skin was sallow.†   (source)
  • One was gaunt and sallow, with thinning black hair and a blade of a nose.†   (source)
  • The air was still bitter, the sky a sallow green.†   (source)
  • His handsome face, so beloved by women everywhere, is unshaven and sallow.†   (source)
  • His skin was sallow, his eyes ringed with black shadow, but he smiled when he saw Simon.†   (source)
  • Magnus looked sunken and sallow, his lips dry, ashy shadows beneath his eyes.†   (source)
  • The brown mustache, the knobby chin, the sallow yellowed flesh and small dark eyes, all melted.†   (source)
  • His eyes bulged, and his face turned a strange, sallow color under the russet surface.†   (source)
  • They were all watching her; the Archer, big Lem, Husband with his sallow face and shifty eyes.†   (source)
  • "I'll look as sallow as the Lord of Bones."†   (source)
  • The other gaoler was older, stooped and sallow, with greasy unwashed hair and pebbled skin.†   (source)
  • His face turned sallow green under the russet skin.†   (source)
  • The short strong one he called Porridge, the stooped sallow one Lamprey, for the pie.†   (source)
  • The men were long-hairs; the women were sallow-faced, with hard eyes and yellowish lips.†   (source)
  • He was a lean, starved, haggard thing, all bones and tight-drawn sallow skin.†   (source)
  • It was common knowledge that Snape ,anted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, but even Harry, who hated Snape, was startled at the expression twisting his thin, sallow face. it was beyond anger: it was loathing.†   (source)
  • Her cheeks had a sallow, drawn look.†   (source)
  • A sliver of a man could be seen looking out at them, a man with long black hair parted in curtains around a sallow face and black eyes.†   (source)
  • None of them wore any kind of discernible facial expression—they were all sallow and gaunt, miserably sad to look upon.†   (source)
  • One side of the person's face was purple, and bulged out in a shapeless way, shading to green along the edges, and then to a sallow yellow.†   (source)
  • Everything was the same: green awning, sallow shade, same furry brown puddle collecting in the sunken place in the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • He thinks of the colonel with his perfect jawline and flared pants; he thinks of the sallow sergeant major eyeing him over the top of the newspaper.†   (source)
  • A sallow-skinned, mournful-looking wizard lay in the bed opposite staring at the ceiling; he was mumbling to himself and seemed quite unaware of anything around him.†   (source)
  • Harry saw the edge of Snapes sallow face turn a nasty brick color, the vein in his temple pulsing more rapidly.†   (source)
  • The classroom door opened as she spoke, and Snape stepped into the corridor, his sallow face framed as ever by two curtains of greasy black hair.†   (source)
  • And her oily complexion, formerly the responsibility of her ex-husband, was now the present boyfriend's fault, too; if she was sallow, she was sallow because of him.†   (source)
  • Not budging from behind the wheel, he opened the door and gazed down at the agent, whose face was stern and sallow.†   (source)
  • But before any of them could respond to this, a sharp voice spoke from high on the wall: A sallow-faced wizard with a short black fringe had just walked back into his empty canvas.†   (source)
  • A sallow-faced wizard with a short black fringe and an elderly witch with long silver ringlets in the frame beside him, both of whom seemed to have been in the deepest of sleeps, opened their eyes immediately.†   (source)
  • Larry's mother, Mitzy Lish, had honey-colored, slightly sticky-looking hair—it was coiffed in a bouffant style—and her complexion was much improved by a suntan; in the winter months, when she'd not just returned from her annual pilgrimage to Round Hill, Jamaica, her skin turned a shade sallow.†   (source)
  • Through the dusty windows I saw Staffordshire dogs and majolica cats, dusty crystal, tarnished silver, antique chairs and settees upholstered in sallow old brocade, an elaborate faience birdcage, miniature marble obelisks atop a marble-topped pedestal table and a pair of alabaster cockatoos.†   (source)
  • On Professor Sinistra's other side was the sallow-faced, hook-nosed, greasy-haired Potions master, Snape — Harry's least favorite person at Hogwarts.†   (source)
  • He was on plat-form nine and three quarters, and Snape stood beside him, slightly hunched, next to a thin, sallow-faced, sour-looking woman who greatly resembled him.†   (source)
  • His skin was much paler than the other two men's, almost sallow, and a crop of tiny sweat beads gleamed on his forehead just below the edge of his black turban.†   (source)
  • She was still hovering by Bella's head, one of her cold hands placed possessively on Bella's sallow cheek.†   (source)
  • The man standing in front of them was very tall, with sallow skin stretched over prominent cheekbones.†   (source)
  • A sallow man with a pocked doughy face stepped through the cellar door, holding a butcher's heavy cleaver.†   (source)
  • And the man sitting beside the bed, sallow and sweaty, covered with grime, restless, nervously plucking at his shirt, bloodshot eyes and wet, swollen lips.†   (source)
  • The road was just a sallow line through the scrub, defined only by its smoother texture and lack of vegetation.†   (source)
  • Then the man continued, "Halstead has a conjurer of his own: a mean, sallow-looking creature we've seen atop the walls, muttering into his beard and trying to strike us down with his spells.†   (source)
  • But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed.†   (source)
  • There was reluctance-even fear, perhaps-in his lined, sallow face, but no hesitation in his progress up the steps and through the doors, past the flickering candles and down the far left aisle of the church.†   (source)
  • Even my outsides looked different—my face sallow, white except for the purple circles the nightmares had left under my eyes.†   (source)
  • When Marilyn answered the door, Dawson barely recognized her; her hair had turned gray and her skin looked sallow.†   (source)
  • His hair looked hacked off in places, longer in others, as if he did it himself with a pair of rusty scissors, and his skin had taken on a sallow color.†   (source)
  • They were plainly out of the question, Yossarian explained adamantly to Sergeant Towser, whose sallow equine face was despondent as he informed Yossarian that the new officers would have to be admitted.†   (source)
  • The boy's ruddy cheeks had sunk into sallow hollows, while his unblinking eyes were devoid of their characteristic spark and humor.†   (source)
  • My beleaguered but generous-spirited receptionist would try to explain the tight schedule, indicating the overflowing waiting room, but I'd come out in my white coat and her sallow face would brighten, the simple sight of me enough to lend some calm and relief.†   (source)
  • Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy.†   (source)
  • Later, as he looked closer, he saw it like film on the men's weapons and clothing and boots, under Stink's fingernails, on Vaught's sallow skin, clouding Doc Peret's glasses.†   (source)
  • She had sallow skin and myopic eyes, and none of the men had ever slept with her because none of the men had ever wanted to, none but Aarfy, who had raped her once that same evening and had then held her prisoner in a clothes closet for almost two hours with his hand over her mouth until the civilian curfew sirens sounded and it was unlawful for her to be outside.†   (source)
  • Just the sight of him sagging across his litter, a mountain of sallow flesh with piggy yellow eyes and breasts big as Pretty Pig pushing at the silk of his tokar was enough to make the dwarf's skin crawl.†   (source)
  • Beneath his bone-and-leather armor he was a small man, and the face under the giant's skull was ordinary, with a knobby chin, thin mustache, and sallow, pinched cheeks.†   (source)
  • Four other men went with him when he left the room, but they were back soon enough with a captive, a small, sallow, battered man fettered hand and foot.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were pale, her complexion sallow, and her teeth crooked, but she was extremely healthy and never complained during her pregnancy.†   (source)
  • The coffin rolled silently out of the hearse, and his friends, brothers, sons took the glittering handles and lowered him slowly onto the beams across the hole and then stood back, red-faced from their life's work as truckers or farmers, or sallow-faced from the bank or grocery store or laundry.†   (source)
  • When they reached The Green Dragon, the last house on the Hobbiton side, now lifeless and with broken windows, they were disturbed to see half a dozen large ill-favoured Men lounging against the inn-wall; they were squint-eyed and sallow-faced.†   (source)
  • The speaker, who had a sallow complexion, a beard from ear to ear, and a black cotton cap on his bald head, suffered from nervous perspiration and sweated profusely.†   (source)
  • " Charles' words were thin and sallow.†   (source)
  • His face went from sallow to ruddy.†   (source)
  • Kate remembered how Faye had looked the last time she saw her, lying in her purple casket, dressed in white, with the undertaker's smile on her lips and enough powder and rouge to cover her sallow skin.†   (source)
  • That explained why the face I called up was not pretty—not the kind of face you would expect to find on Judge Irwin's wife—but a sallowish, thin face, not even young, with only the big dark eyes to recommend it.†   (source)
  • This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police—belt, helmet, polished spurs and all—strutting and twirling his dark moustache.†   (source)
  • A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.†   (source)
  • His sallow face, thin-flanked, was hang-dog and afraid.†   (source)
  • Anyone who looked at their sallow skin could see that.†   (source)
  • And the evidence of Mrs. Irwin's sallow face.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Mink was a flat-breasted woman with a sallow skin and small features.†   (source)
  • The reflection stared back at me, sallow and plain.†   (source)
  • It was wormy white contrasted with the ugly dark sallowness of his face and hands.†   (source)
  • She had a long, sallow face, and eyes set close together.†   (source)
  • He was, as Aunt Bertha had said, a little man, very long-nosed, blue-eyed, and sallow.†   (source)
  • The girl Katrina looked even more sallow and sullen than ever.†   (source)
  • He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.†   (source)
  • When he turned around, his sallow face had gone white and passionate.†   (source)
  • He was reserved and formal, and his face was still taut and sallow, but he cheered up finally.†   (source)
  • India leaped to her feet, red flooding her sallow face.†   (source)
  • He had aqueous gray eyes, and a sallow bumpy skin.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bowden was a little sallow woman with ratty brown hair.†   (source)
  • The sallow face had yellowed and lost its sinew.†   (source)
  • Patrolman Leslie Roberts, sallow and liverish, slouched by anaemically, swinging his club.†   (source)
  • He considered me for a while; he had gotten to be wrinkled at the eyes, sallow, shrewd, stillish, a commentator.†   (source)
  • Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand, stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being so unceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.†   (source)
  • After saying that Mr Browning went back to his rooms—and it is this sequel that endears him and makes him a human figure of some bulk and majesty—he went back to his rooms and found a stable-boy lying on the sofa—'a mere skeleton, his cheeks were cavernous and sallow, his teeth were black, and he did not appear to have the full use of his limbs…… "That's Arthur" [said Mr Browning].†   (source)
  • Her face was sallower, and there was a long scar, partly hidden by the hair, across her forehead and temple; but that was not the change.†   (source)
  • Hooper appeared; he was a sallow youth with hair combed back, without parting, from his forehead, and a flat, Midland accent; he had been in the company two months.†   (source)
  • A girl was standing in the entrance of the french window-a small, sallow girl, with very black hair and suspicious eyes.†   (source)
  • He thought her brown face looked pallid and the skin sallow and that there were dark areas under her eyes.†   (source)
  • He noticed sallow cheeks, a funny nose, a wart on a receding chin, a stomach squashed against the edge of a table.†   (source)
  • So I ponder; and you meanwhile observe maliciously my pursed lips, my sallow cheeks and my invariable frown.†   (source)
  • The French and Italian Cardinals were men in vigorous middle life— the Norman full-belted and ruddy, the Venetian spare and sallow and hook-nosed.†   (source)
  • He was a tall sallow man of middle age.†   (source)
  • He had been a fool and done wrong, he showed up sallow and with the smaller disgrace that he was fat, as if overeating were his reply to being crushed--and with this all over him he wasn't going to tell me, he balked at telling, some small details.†   (source)
  • He seemed bound to have occupations in the darkness, and by now this had laid a peculiar coloring on him, his face darkened sallow and slack-cheeked and his eyes, injured by worry, now more Turkish from a thickening of the skin by the continual effort and wrinkling his eyes, probably, at the ruby and green cut buttons of his burrow office--there where he sat at a drawing board and copied blueprints and read pamphlets in his leisure time.†   (source)
  • His face had the sallow, yellow look it got when he was insulted, but somehow he seemed to be enjoying it.†   (source)
  • As he passed out of it and turned to the right he glanced back and registered two impressions-a sallow face watching him from the first-floor window, and a man of erect and soldierly carriage pacing up and down on the opposite side of the street.†   (source)
  • In his small mouth as he spoke, gold teeth gleamed, and his sallow brow that knitted easily into long wrinkles, crept up in quick perspectives into the brownish kinky hair.†   (source)
  • He had the sallow malarial face of the south Georgia Cracker, pale pinkish hair and washed-out blue eyes which even in delirium were patient and mild.†   (source)
  • He stood waiting, his face sallow, his hands fairly low, proudly and firmly waiting for the assault, ready to do battle for his lady love.†   (source)
  • Blood flared in his sallow face.†   (source)
  • Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malariallooking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.†   (source)
  • Cohn's face was sallow.†   (source)
  • But neither the slight, long-nosed owner of the store, gnawing bitterly at his sallow mustache, nor his slovenly, red-haired wife glaring at him, nor their pimpled, frightened daughter in the rear moved to do his bidding.†   (source)
  • Now Jonas shook with a fury equal to Scarlett's and his sallow face was as red as an angry turkey gobbler's.†   (source)
  • He was somewhat above the middle height, bumpy of face and sallow of skin, with a light pleasing tenor voice.†   (source)
  • Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich planter and sallow Cracker, they all had two things in common, lice and dysentery.†   (source)
  • He thrust his big head down into the deep well of the sink, letting the lukewarm water sluice refreshingly over his broad neck and blue-white sallow night-time face, strong, tough, and humorous.†   (source)
  • And the sallow yellow of his face had turned gray; out of this granite tint of death, lit by two red flags of fever, the stiff black furze of a three-day beard was growing.†   (source)
  • The skin was sallow with a dead ashen tinge; beneath, the delicate bone-carving of face and skull traced itself clearly: the cadaverous tightness of those who are about to die had been checked.†   (source)
  • Hugh Barton's sister, Mrs. Genevieve Watson, was a sallow woman of thirty-eight years, tall, wren-like and emaciated, like her brother; dyspeptic, and very elegantly kept.†   (source)
  • Beneath the sallow minute pitted skin in her cheeks, and about her mouth, several frayed nerve-centres twitched from moment to moment, jarring the skin slightly without contorting or destroying the passionate calm beauty that fed her inexhaustibly from within.†   (source)
  • There is an oval Maidan, and a long sallow hospital.†   (source)
  • A sudden flush rose under M. Riviere's sallow skin.†   (source)
  • Young Burt made his appearance then, wiping his sallow face.†   (source)
  • He was a thin, sallow man with a red nose, quick, staccato, and smartly but stiffly dressed.†   (source)
  • He was very sallow and dark, and he never shaved sufficiently.†   (source)
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