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sallow
in
The Kite Runner
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But polio had left Ali with a twisted, atrophied right leg that was sallow skin over bone with little in between except a paper-thin layer of muscle.†
p. 8.5 *
A thin boy, a little sallow, and a tad short for his twelve years.†
p. 66.3
The sallow, puffy-eyed doctor who saw us introduced himself as a second-year resident.†
p. 153.8
I pulled the blanket back up to his chest where ribs stretched his thin, sallow skin.†
p. 161.6
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.†
p. 276.2

Definitions:

(1) (sallow as in: a sallow complexion)
an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)