bilious-looking

Barty Jarper was talking near them, in his mild little way, to a tall young lady in a bilious-looking green dress, and further off Mr Bellthorp was laughing with Mrs Riller behind the friendly shelter of her fan.

Madame Midas 2003

I noticed one lean, bilious-looking wight, who sought none but the most worm-eaten volumes, printed in black-letter.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Gumpas was a bilious-looking man with hair that had once been red and was now mostly grey.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis, C. S. 1952

At some more or less remote period attempts appeared to have been made at brick - making, -- there were untidy stacks of bilious-looking bricks in evidence.

The Beetle Richard Marsh

Now, once for all, the Baron gives notice hereby and herewith nevertheless and all to the contrary notwithstanding, that neither he nor his retainers will take notice of Christmas puzzles, such as, for example, the bilious-looking "Spots Puzzle," which ought to be dedicated to _Little Red Riding Hood_, as it is brought out by "WOLF."

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 21, 1891 Various

If not, permit me to inform you that this group of letters and numerals represented a mud-flat pocked with ancient shell-craters, through which loafed an unwholesome stream under a bilious-looking sky.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917 Various

In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens—elections—members of congress—liberty—Bunker’s Hill—heroes of seventy-six—and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.

Rip Van Winkle, a Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker 1917

It was her eyes which chiefly repelled Mavis: pupil, iris, and the part surrounding this last, were all of the same colour, a hard, bilious-looking green.

Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl 1909

In place of these, a lean, bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens—election—members of Congress—liberty—Bunker’s Hill—heroes of ’76—and other words, that were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.

Rip Van Winkle 1907

But at last there was silence, as one bilious-looking vellum book, old enough to have known better, had evidently caught the ear of the assembled multitudes; and then

Prose Fancies Richard Le Gallienne 1906