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"ref": "1937, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1880, in The Years, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 64",
"text": "[…] there was something owl-like about the eyes, round which there was a sallow, hollow depression.",
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"ref": "2023 September 9, Jason Farago, “The 19th Century’s Most Scandalous Painting Comes to New York”, in The New York Times",
"text": "For more than a century after the scandal of 1865, artists and historians wrestled with Olympia’s sallow skin, the bracelet on her right forearm, the orchid in her upswept red hair.",
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"ref": "2007 December 23, David McWilliams, We must begin the culture debate",
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"ref": "17 January 2012, Aisling, \"Am I pink or yellow? How to choose the right foundation tone. And what is the deal with Mac foundations?\" beaut.ie",
"text": "A yellow undertone is often found on people with sallow skin – e.g. Asian."
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"ref": "2012 June 13, Billy Keane, “I feel so much for Mickey. Maybe there is peace for him in sport”, in Irish Independent",
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"ref": "1920, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love, New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, published 1996, page 14",
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"ref": "1982, Saul Bellow, chapter 2, in The Dean’s December, New York: Pocket Books, published 1983, page 20",
"text": "In a matter of hours she was looking gaunt, and sallow: her face had a kind of negative color.",
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"ref": "1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Velay”, in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, Boston: Roberts Brothers, page 48",
"text": "On the opposite bank of the Allier the land kept mounting for miles to the horizon: a tanned and sallow autumn landscape […]",
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"ref": "1992, Edna O’Brien, Time and Tide, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Part 4, Chapter 44, p. 319",
"text": "In a restaurant window little meringue cases, not quite sallow and not quite white.",
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"ref": "2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, New York: Knopf, Part 2, Chapter 8, p. 169",
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"ref": "1972, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation, Predatory Mammals and Endangered Species, page 559",
"text": "Mr. President, the sallow air of our cities, the blackened sands of our seashores, our lakes and harbors reeking of sewage and depleted of oxygen are but a part of the sad legacy of the idea that nature can be treated as a servant, blindly obedient to every want, whim or pleasure of man.",
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"ref": "2011, Jacob Murphy, Guardians, page 44",
"text": "The boat's deck was covered in moss, and its warm, sallow water was filled with lichens that gave off an eerie green glow.",
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"ref": "2012, Dr. James Kennedy, The Baywood Tales, page 17",
"text": "My mouth went dry and a sallow feeling descended upon me.",
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"ref": "2013, Dr. John H. LaManque, A Bricklayer's Story, page 130",
"text": "The burden of a hollow and sallow feeling that was suffocating my soul as a learner had given way at this time to a joyous feeling of anticipation;",
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"ref": "2016, Paul Quintanilla, Master Tom",
"text": "This ugliness, though, filled the air now. With something rank and squalid and seemingly spent with the character of death. No, it wasn't that I was scared, being all alone now out on my property. In my house. It was this surrounding sallow atmosphere now which depressed me. This deep sense of some deep basic wrong occupying my surrounding world.",
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"ref": "1912, Flora Annie Steel, King-Errant, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 212",
"text": "The tan of his sunburnt face and hands contrasted sadly with the sallowing skin of the girl-wife, who, despite his care, was sinking under her task of son-bearing.",
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"ref": "1918, Lola Ridge, “The Garden”, in The Ghetto and Other Poems, New York: Huebsch, page 93",
"text": "I might have stemmed them in a narrow vase\nAnd watched each petal sallowing . . .",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1977, Robert Lowell, “Death of a Critic”, in Day by Day, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 48",
"text": "My maiden reviews,\nonce the verbal equivalent of murder,\nare now a brief, compact pile,\nalmost as old as I.\nThey fall apart sallowing,\ntheir stiff pages\nchip like dry leaves\nflying the tree that fed them.",
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"text": "1835, Fanny Kemble (as Frances Anne Butler), Journal, London: John Murray, Volume 1, entry for 15 September, 1832, p. 105, footnote,\nThe climate of this country is the scape-goat upon which all ill looks and ill health of the ladies is laid; but while they are brought up as effeminately as they are, take as little exercise, live in rooms like ovens during the winter, and marry as early as they do, it will appear evident that many causes combine with an extremely variable climate, to sallow their complexions, and destroy their constitutions."
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"ref": "1889, George Washington Cable, “How I Got them”, in Strange True Stories of Louisiana, New York: Scribner, page 10",
"text": "But would a pretender carry his or her cunning to the extreme of fortifying the manuscript in every possible way against the sallowing touch of time[…]?",
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"ref": "1918, Edna Ferber, chapter 9, in Cheerful — By Request, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 252",
"text": "Mary Gowd, with her frumpy English hat and her dreadful English fringe, and her brick-red English cheeks, which not even the enervating Italian sun, the years of bad Italian food or the damp and dim little Roman room had been able to sallow.",
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"ref": "1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Garden City, NY: Sun Dial, published 1942, Book 2, Chapter 11, pp. 169-170",
"text": "All she knew was that she had been stiffened and thickened by the same years that had given the other woman added grace and suppleness, that her skin had been dried and sallowed by the same lights and weathers that had added luster to the radiant beauty of the other […]",
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