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Examples for "sickly "
Examples for "sickly "
1 Though not exactly sickly , neither is the market in the rudest health.
2 She certainly looked very pale and sickly , just as Terence had said.
3 They looked like brothers in the sickly glow of the seal-oil lamp.
4 The Sage of Rotterdam was old and sickly ; his day was over.
5 Now their unsold homes are the bane of a sickly housing market.
1 The hue is rather bloodless and leaden; but he was alway sallow .
2 For the rest of the day the sallow held her head high.
3 He saw the sallow face and thin breasts of the older sister.
4 He paused, his sallow face flushed with the enthusiasm of his idea.
5 Her cheeks were sallow ; her dark eyes burnt behind their thick lashes.
6 Because I had sallow skin, I said my parents were from Scandinavia.
7 His cheeks were sallow , low in flesh, but the spirit was there.
8 Her hair was in tousled strings and her face was sallow , creased.
9 His hair was black, his complexion sallow ; but his features were good.
10 She was a sallow brunette but her features were regular and delicate.
11 The English clerk of Tesmans remembered that she had a sallow face.
12 She turned a dull red under the tan of her sallow complexion.
13 She had the same pale, sallow face, the same glittering black eyes.
14 There was a little spot of colour, even, in her sallow cheeks.
15 The least memory of those sallow , hungry faces convinced him of that.
16 His complexion had turned sallow from too many years of hard drinking.
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