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• Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
• The girls are mostly Slavic-pretty, long-limbed with high cheekbones, sallow skin and green eyes. They are the closest thing to supermodels that Mulhuddart has ever seen.
• A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian.
• She had such lovely sallow skin, the handsome high cheekbones of the north with the brown conker-colour eyes and the dark silken hair.
• Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
• Among the river sallows, borne aloft
• Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
• Bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
• The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.
• Doris’s skin was sallow and slack, as though the person inside had shrunk.