Word: sallow
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Prince Chichibu, short, lithe, athletic, sallow-skinned, once studied at Oxford. During his vacations he scampered up Swiss Alps, peered from mountain tops through his owlish tortoise shell spectacles...
...King enters, alone. He, Vittorio Emanuele III, is a little man, with sallow cheeks and greying temples. He kneels before the bed and tells his rosary, while great tears stream from his eyes. He prays softly to himself, and then, rising, steps down the stair and departs in a two-horse carriage...
Before the other two could intervene, the sallow section man with the tired moustache, who was a surreptitious poet, had pushed over all the piles and was mixing them together...
Juror Kidwell, a sallow youngish man, is not what Washingtonians would call a "drugstore cowboy" and certainly not a "street sheik" just a chinless young man with prominent eyes and ears Who rather en joyed his sudden importance His soft-drink cronies would ask him about the trial and he welcomed the opportunity to give what he considered dark hints of mysterious grandeur. He would say that Harry Sinclair was a "nice, democratic guy in spite of all his money" He would say that he, Edward Kidwell was a "pretty good yes-and-no-man" and that he was "just...
...jockey. Nature had made him dark and small?but not quite lean enough for a jockey. Sometimes he had to take off so much weight before a race that he felt his skin did not quite fit him. This was hard on his health, made his complexion sallow and his digestive system awry. Nevertheless, he was considered one of the best jockeys of the Harry Payne Whitney stables. People were surprised last year when he suddenly left Mr. Whitney. He had a reason...