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  • Since the Live Aid movement captured the hearts and wallets of people in the Occidental world, the sallow-faced Ethiopian child has come to emblematize Africa: exotic, needy, and victimized.

    Rosalia Gitau: T.I.A.: This Is Africa Rosalia Gitau 2010

  • The burly, sallow-faced fellow in the uniform tabard of a servant of the Council looked down at him with an unreadable face.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • The sallow-faced night manager had come to a halt at the gate, mouth hanging open, chin dangling like an undercooked dumpling.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • The sallow-faced night manager had come to a halt at the gate, mouth hanging open, chin dangling like an undercooked dumpling.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • The sallow-faced night manager had come to a halt at the gate, mouth hanging open, chin dangling like an undercooked dumpling.

    I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone Stephanie Kuehnert 2008

  • It's been reported that Nickelodeon has realised that no Zoey 101 at all is better than Zoey 101 starring a sallow-faced calcium-deficient single teenage mother who keeps squirting breastmilk through her starter bra.

    Now The Whole World Watches Zoey 101 2008

  • As I said in "Fashion Advice for the Leftist Set," horizontal stripes work for no one ... not even skinny, shapeless, sallow-faced male models.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • A small,sallow-faced man, the Senator from New York was quick, perceptive, and ambitious.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • A small,sallow-faced man, the Senator from New York was quick, perceptive, and ambitious.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • As I said in "Fashion Advice for the Leftist Set," horizontal stripes work for no one ... not even skinny, shapeless, sallow-faced male models.

    Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Can I get one? 2005

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