All 5 Uses of
sallow
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.†
Chpt 3 *
- The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.†
Chpt 3
- He sprang from his chair and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and unclasping of his long thin hands.†
Chpt 5
- As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth.†
Chpt 6
- His eyes twinkled, and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion