tallow-faced

“Who is that tallow-faced Put with the carroty hair?” says Jack Morris, on whom the Burgundy had had its due effect.

The Virginians 2006

Alas, poor tallow-faced Chandlers, I met them mourning through the streets, and complaining that they could get no vent for their Mustard, for want of Brawn.

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

"Which there's a little tallow-faced runt in perspective," he says, climbing down the stays, "that I can lick," he says, being misled by my size.

The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two fingers, who had come first to the Admiral Benbow.

Treasure Island 1883

It was the tallow-faced man, wanting two fingers, who had come first to the "Admiral Benbow."

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

The youth was a tall, tallow-faced individual, who looked as if he had not the spirit of a mouse; the horse was quickly hitched to the carriage and he drove off with Maurice.

The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871

But there were numbers of people passing along the thoroughfares -- mostly groups of young men of about two-and-twenty, tallow-faced, round-shouldered, wearing over-coats and billycock hats, and smoking short pipes; and there were crowded omnibuses coming rolling along (what a difference was this roar and rabble from the quiet of the Sabbath morning far away there on the northern coast!), and these people must live somewhere.

The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols William Black 1869

Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys,

Anti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys,

Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Hark! the tallow-faced monsters, nor women nor boys,

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849