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an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion
- One of them was a sallow, clean-shaven civilian with a thin and wrinkled face, already growing old, though he was dressed like a most fashionable young man.Book One — 1805 (51% in)
- His thin, worn, sallow face was covered with deep wrinkles, which always looked as clean and well washed as the tips of one's fingers after a Russian bath.Book Two — 1805 (48% in)
- A door opened to the right, and an emaciated sallow man on crutches, barefoot and in underclothing, limped out and, leaning against the doorpost, looked with glittering envious eyes at those who were passing.Book Five — 1806-07 (80% in)
- Close to the corner, on an overcoat, sat an old, unshaven, gray-bearded soldier as thin as a skeleton, with a stern sallow face and eyes intently fixed on Rostov.Book Five — 1806-07 (82% in)
- The old men, dim-eyed, toothless, bald, sallow, and bloated, or gaunt and wrinkled, were especially striking.Book Nine — 1812 (93% in)
- The other was the mayor, a man with a thin sallow face and narrow beard.Book Nine — 1812 (**% in)
- And he saw before him a plump, rather sallow-faced, short, stout woman, the Empress Mother, with her smile and her words at her first gracious reception of him, and then that same face on the catafalque, and the encounter he had with Zubov over her coffin about his right to kiss her hand.Book Ten — 1812 (7% in)
- But he had not time to realize that the colonel had been killed, that the soldier shouting "Brothers!" was a prisoner, and that another man had been bayoneted in the back before his eyes, for hardly had he run into the redoubt before a thin, sallow-faced, perspiring man in a blue uniform rushed on him sword in hand, shouting something.Book Ten — 1812 (84% in)
- He rode hurriedly from the battlefield and returned to the Shevardino knoll, where he sat on his campstool, his sallow face swollen and heavy, his eyes dim, his nose red, and his voice hoarse, involuntarily listening, with downcast eyes, to the sounds of firing.Book Ten — 1812 (97% in)
- Yes, on my word, it's Bezukhov!" said Natasha, putting her head out of the carriage and staring at a tall, stout man in a coachman's long coat, who from his manner of walking and moving was evidently a gentleman in disguise, and who was passing under the arch of the Sukharev tower accompanied by a small, sallow-faced, beardless old man in a frieze coat.Book Eleven — 1812 (41% in)
- Gerasim, that sallow beardless old man Pierre had seen at Torzhok five years before with Joseph Bazdeev, came out in answer to his knock.Book Eleven — 1812 (44% in)
- The count ordered his carriage that he might drive to Sokolniki, and sat in his study with folded hands, morose, sallow, and taciturn.Book Eleven — 1812 (60% in)
- The fifth was a factory hand, a thin, sallow-faced lad of eighteen in a loose coat.Book Twelve — 1812 (58% in)
- While Pierre was repeating what he had been told about the army leaving Moscow, a thin, sallow, tattered French soldier came up to the door of the shed.Book Thirteen — 1812 (55% in)
- He had a long, greasy, flowered silk waistcoat next to his sallow, thin bare body, but no shirt.Book Thirteen — 1812 (55% in)
- Not far from him walked a fat major with a sallow, bloated, angry face, who was wearing a Kazan dressing gown tied round with a towel, and who evidently enjoyed the respect of his fellow prisoners.Book Thirteen — 1812 (67% in)
- She looked down at her expanded figure and in the glass at her pale, sallow, emaciated face in which her eyes now looked larger than ever.Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (53% in)
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