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Examples
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It showed a method of taking the bolt of fabric to a mirror in the store and pulling a large piece across your neckline to see if the color brightened or sallowed your skin.
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His eyes brightened, then sallowed - his morning task had come to him.
The Good Wife 2010
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His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face.
In Chancery 2004
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She also saw how curiously the sun sallowed him, and how many more hollows he had in his face than most people.
The Path of a Star Sara Jeannette Duncan
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She also saw how curiously the sun sallowed him and how many more hollows he had in his face than most people.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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It would have taken a woman to understand why she suddenly sprang up, why her sallowed face took on a hasty colour, and with what an incredulously beating heart she hastened down the grey stone stairs to the hall-porter's box.
Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920
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She sat down idly before her dressing-table and met again her sallowed face in the mirror.
Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920
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Thus it is that these young bright envelops touch my heart even more than do their dusty and sallowed seniors.
A. V. Laider 1916
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They entered a small room, divided unequally by a barrier desk; behind it stood a lean, coffee-sallowed young man with a scrawny neck displayed to the uttermost by a standing collar scarcely taller than the band of a shirt.
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Through the saddle-colored hordes on the moot ground of the narrow sidewalks moves an occasional Anglo-Saxon resident, browned and sallowed, on his way to the government concession that he manages; a less occasional
The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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