All 7 Uses of
sallow
in
Gone with the Wind
- 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.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich planter and sallow Cracker, they all had two things in common, lice and dysentery.†
Chpt 3.30
- 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.†
Chpt 3.30
- Now Jonas shook with a fury equal to Scarlett's and his sallow face was as red as an angry turkey gobbler's.†
Chpt 4.32
- He was thin and sallow faced and his yellow eyes were watery and sunken in creases of loose flesh.†
Chpt 4.35
- Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malariallooking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.†
Chpt 4.40
- India leaped to her feet, red flooding her sallow face.†
Chpt 5.49
Definition:
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(sallow as in: a sallow complexion) an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion