sallowness

Her skin changed color, a horrid sallowness creeping in.

It washed the interior with sallowness, like aging ivory.

She was white enough, with the sallowness of the sandhill poor white.

His features were handsome, despite their sallowness.

As if to emphasize her sallowness and thinness, she has changed into shirt and jeans.

"He is a pseudo-oriental, utilizing a natural sallowness of the skin heightened with dye.

His face, despite its sallowness, was handsome; and his pointed mustache gave him a sophisticated appearance.

His complexion did not have that after-the-binge sallowness; he was ruddy and healthy-looking.

The rest of him was so unhealthy that the artificially bright smile seemed to emphasize the sallowness of his skin, the sunken eyes.

His illness showed in the sallowness of his complexion and the hollowness of his cheeks.

By the time he had shaved, bathed, and dressed, his face had lost its sallowness, his carriage most of its weariness.

He came from the Po valley, but he had caught malaria during his stint in the south and had the southern malaria victim's sallowness.

In that dimness, The Shadow became an invisible shape; but Zurman's face, pale despite its normal sallowness, showed white and terrified.

"You are as beautiful as they say, apart from being too tall, but your skin has a tendency to sallowness, and that heavy look does not become you.

Today rain had streaked the powder and blurred the rouge, revealing darkened lower lids, blotchy sallowness, deepened lines, and his shoulders were slumped.

But as Miss Yoshida continued with her whispered report, as the sallowness of Sato's skin became more apparent, he turned his withering gaze away.

She also wore a new lipstick called Chloe, which took some attention away from the slight sallowness she imagined she saw in her complexion, and a splash of light cologne.

His face, clean-shaven and puffily fat, was of a pasty, unhealthy sallowness, with heavy pouches under the eyes and deep lines running from his nose to the corners of his mouth.

I heard her arguing with Rhonda on the telephone, and I sat up all night, fully expecting the house to be torched by someone whose unfortunate sallowness could be corrected in a single session.

The sallowness and delicate stature of his youth had been transmuted into an attractive bronze, and his chest had filled out from his long hike in the company of gold-seekers crossing the continent.

"Then add a little bronzer to get rid of sallowness or paleness in the skin, or add a rosy blush to the apples of the cheeks to give you a healthy pop of color.

In the days since he'd entered her office and found her sitting on her desk, she'd changed perceptibly: Her tan had faded to sallowness, and her facial skin pulled tight against the bone; her eyes were sunk in shadow.

The makeup couldn't hide the sallowness of that woman's cheeks, the hollow-ness of her eyes, or the way her neck had started to go all crepey (seeing that sort of lizardy skin on a woman's neck always made Coral shiver inside).

She goes about dressed in stained-glass futurist muslins, and contrives provocative effects out of a tilted nose, and sulky eyes, and sallowness set off by a black velvet band on the forehead, and a black scarf of hair dragged tight from a raking backward peak.

Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother's heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John's sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home.