sallowish

• “A youngish sallowish gentleman in spectacles, with a lumpy forehead, seated in a supplementary chair at a corner of the table, here caused a profound sensation by saying, in a raised voice, ‘ESKER,’ and then stopping dead.”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “A dark, sallowish District Superintendent of Police, faultlessly uniformed, an Englishman, trotted by on a tired horse, and, seeing from her retinue what manner of person she was, chaffed her.”

  Kim

• “This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police — belt, helmet, polished spurs and all — strutting and twirling his dark moustache.”

  Kim

• “Or his funny, sallowish face, narrowing to the black chin-beard.”

  Mary Olivier: a Life

• “He saw what she saw: the immense coffin set up on trestles at the foot of the bed; the sheeted body packed tight in the padded white lining, the hands, curling a little, smooth and stiff, the hands of a wax figure; the firm, sallowish white face; the brown stains, like iodine, about the nostrils; the pale under lip pushed out, proudly.”

  Mary Olivier: a Life

• “This was a tallish, sallowish District Superintendent of Police -- belt, helmet, polished spurs and all -- strutting and twirling his dark moustache.”

  Kim

• “He was still some distance off; but it was possible to make out that he was sallowish in complexion, wore a trimmed beard, and had something of a long throat.”

  Come Rack! Come Rope!

• “One was of a sallowish salmon-colour, and transparent, the other was of brick-red paper with a fringe.”

  The Brownies and Other Tales

• “A youngish sallowish gentleman in spectacles, with a lumpy forehead, seated in a supplementary chair at a corner of the table, here caused”

  Our Mutual Friend

• “With these, likewise, she appears to be more than contented; for, from their being of a pale sallowish colour, she fancies they are beautifully white; therefore is industrious to display them, ornamented with rings and pearl bracelets.”

  Vicissitudes in Genteel Life

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