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  • The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating gray eyes.

    Sole Music 2010

  • In that same vein, the academy this year abandoned its long-held No Fangs policy to nominate for best drama series HBO's cult vampire drama, "True Blood," about a psychic waitress and her 173-year-old, sallow-skinned vampire boyfriend.

    This year's Emmy nominations mark radical shift 2010

  • In no time, he was taken into their circle and became something of a sallow-skinned mascot.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • In no time, he was taken into their circle and became something of a sallow-skinned mascot.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • Virginia, however, was quite charmed when the tall, gaunt, sallow-skinned young man, trailed at the heel by a mild-mannered Alsatian hound, welcomed the two intruders as if they were long-lost friends.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • A tall sallow-skinned nurse, her starched uniform folded like cardboard upon her bony chest, glanced over contemptuously.

    Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006

  • The plump witch got out and a sallow-skinned wizard with a very mournful face got in.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • A sallow-skinned, mournful-looking wizard lay in the bed opposite staring at the ceiling; he was mumbling to himself and seemed quite unaware of anything around him.

    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003

  • Since he was willowy, sallow-skinned and looked to be in constant danger of vomiting, it was not surprising that he disliked the boys who snuffled with sickening gusto, or picked their noses, or displayed the sticky brown fingers which betrayed that they used them to wipe their dirty bottoms.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Since he was willowy, sallow-skinned and looked to be in constant danger of vomiting, it was not surprising that he disliked the boys who snuffled with sickening gusto, or picked their noses, or displayed the sticky brown fingers which betrayed that they used them to wipe their dirty bottoms.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

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