Both Uses of
sallow
in
Rappaccini's Daughter
- His figure soon emerged into view, and showed itself to be that of no common laborer, but a tall, emaciated, sallow, and sickly-looking man, dressed in a scholar's garb of black.†
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- His face was all overspread with a most sickly and sallow hue, but yet so pervaded with an expression of piercing and active intellect that an observer might easily have overlooked the merely physical attributes and have seen only this wonderful energy.†
Definition:
an unhealthy pale of yellowish complexion; or to cause such a complexion