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The bark is white with a sallow-complexioned blush of orange.
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He was a sallow-complexioned man, with thin, clean-shaven lips.
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His wife was engaged in washing a baby -- the seventh -- and Beile, an ill-favored, sallow-complexioned girl, sat at the window sewing.
Rabbi and Priest A Story Milton Goldsmith
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Foyle wheeled sharply, and confronted a thin-faced, sallow-complexioned man with a wisp of black hair creeping from under his hat, and with sharp, penetrating, humorous eyes.
The Grell Mystery Frank Froest
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The stout sallow-complexioned dame kissed her, and it was now broken to her that she was betrothed to Erik Pontoppidan Egeland, the most objectionable person under the sun.
Chapter XIII 1917
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In turning the corner of the Place du Bouffay he ran into a slightly built, sallow-complexioned gentleman very neatly dressed in black, wearing a tie-wig under a round hat.
Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912
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"Sure herself" (herself was Mrs. McKeown) "has her box locked agin me, and I've no clothes but what's on me!" she protested, producing after a long interval a large brown shawl and a sallow-complexioned blanket,
All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903
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Mr. Moorshed, black-haired, black-browed, sallow-complexioned, looked me over from head to foot and grinned.
Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900
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His sallow-complexioned face assumed a greenish-yellow tint, and his deep-set eyes glistened like those of a hunted animal.
The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895
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Ten years ago she had been gawky and sallow-complexioned.
The Fawn Gloves 1893
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