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  • ‘He’s more tan than he appears in the photograph, although in certain lights he appears a little sallow-looking.

    The Beekeeper's Apprentice King, Laurie R. 2006

  • And then Mike staggered through the door, now supporting a sallow-looking Lee Stephens, another boy in our Biology class.

    Twilight Meyer, Stephenie 2005

  • The spokesman was a thin, sallow-looking American, with a pompous and yet rapid delivery, and a habit of turning over his words with his quid before delivering them, and clearing his mouth after each sentence, perhaps to make room for the next.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands Mary Seacole

  • George's companion stopped for a moment, at a house in the street, where they were joined by a sallow-looking priest, apparently one of the most disgusting of his tribe.

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • "What is the feller's name?" soliloquized a sallow-looking chap who stood with his back to the stove scratching his head in perplexity.

    Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

  • I laughed at him at first, but he persisted till I was forced to believe him in earnest; and then I told him how foolish he was to fancy an ugly, sallow-looking girl like me, who had no father nor mother, when he might take one of John Mills's rosy daughters, or go down to Catlettsburg and get somebody whose father would give him a farm already cleared.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Various

  • There were three pale, sallow-looking women of twenty or twenty-five years of age, with fine black eyes -- their only attraction; two old shriveled hags; four fat, comfortable, coal-black slave-women; and several children.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

  • In the kitchen were four men, two of whom wore black doublet and hosen, black caps with a black feather, and were sallow-looking counterparts of the last arrival.

    Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

  • In fact, I should have felt quite downhearted about my own looks, if I hadn't learned from books -- not the thick ones -- that sallow-looking men, with dark eyes, are interesting.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various

  • I have frequently heard a long-legged, sallow-looking backwoodsman talk of having come lately from

    A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America

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