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sallow-complexioned

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  • The bark is white with a sallow-complexioned blush of orange.

    Country diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

  • He was a sallow-complexioned man, with thin, clean-shaven lips.

    The Hero of Garside School

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • Mr. Moorshed, black-haired, black-browed, sallow-complexioned, looked me over from head to foot and grinned.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 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

  • Ten years ago she had been gawky and sallow-complexioned.

    The Fawn Gloves 1893

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