How To Use Sallow In A Sentence

Ireland is younger, more sallow, better educated, more vibrant and more in need of joined-up thinking than ever before.
Drogba has a goal - very similar to Terry's, but from a free-kick on the other side - disallowed for offside.
Her sallow skin was drawn tightly across the bones of her face.
Yet another Italian goal was wrongly disallowed for offside. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.

The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.
A sallow teenager in a cheap cocktail dress wearing too much makeup appears, looking terminally bored.
Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
The shaken man described one of the attackers as thin, in his early 20s, with long thin face and a Mexican-style moustache and sallow complexion.
The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
Ashton had a try under the posts disallowed for offside after he raced onto an Adam Mitchell kick through.
He looked even worse than before, only this time he had beads of sweat dripping down his sallow skin and his nostrils were flared in his over-large nose.
‘After several days of flying in space, the astronauts may look wan and sallow, so medical staff will put make-up on them to make them look ruddy,’ the newspaper said.
The misconceived refusal to give Charlie Adam a penalty and send off Philippe Senderos on the hour, a spoilsport decision to disallow a goal for Luis Suárez midway through the second half and a red card for the young midfielder Jay Spearing a few minutes later prefaced a crescendo of Fulham attacking which ended with a dreadful Pepe Reina error and a decisive tap-in for Clint Dempsey. Andy Carroll's ineffectiveness adds to Liverpool frustration at Fulham | Richard Williams
He also scored a goal at the death that was disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
Whiteside is described as 5ft 6in tall, slim, with short hair which is balding on top and going grey on sides, a sallow complexion and brown eyes.
The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun
A sallow teenager in a cheap cocktail dress wearing too much makeup appears, looking terminally bored.
The old image of snooker is of seedy, smoky, dimly-lit halls filled with sallow-complexioned men, pint in one hand, cigarette in the other as they wait their turn at the table.
The linesman flagged in error and the goal was disallowed. Times, Sunday Times
But the vow of a widow or of a woman divorced, no man had power to disallow of, for her estate was free from controlment" (Klein 50). My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
Her eyes sparkled and her completion had lost its sallow look.
He also scored a goal at the death that was disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
Machester United had a goal disallowed for being offside.
Rangers might have run in half a dozen had Michael Mols and Shota Arveladze's finishing been better, and they had two goals disallowed and hit the woodwork twice.
The upshot is that strong global and strong individual supervenience come apart “only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base,” as Kim and others predicted (see Supervenience
They disallowed our claim for compensation.
A look of relief briefly lit his sallow features, like the flickering of a faulty fluorescent bulb, then immediately went out. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The negative attacks on Obama should have been begun from the get-go, so as to disallow Obama to get his message across and pigeonhole him so to speak. Matthew Yglesias » Organizing Your People
The amendment also mandates that a one man, one woman marriage will be seen as valid in all fifty states, thereby precluding any state from disallowing or disfavoring traditional marriage.
The Supreme Court ruled last December that the Surrey School Board erred in disallowing the books in the classroom.
Postmodern novels defamiliarize this ideology by highlighting their own status as textual constructs, thereby disallowing readers to interpret their fictive worlds as transparent or neutral reflections of reality.
The department said in a notice today that it will issue regulations that disallow so-called triangular reorganizations that attempt to escape tax when they send foreign earnings to a U.S. parent company.... September 2006
Werner's voice was a bit sharp; he was rattled by something almost feverish in her tone, and those twin spots of raspberry colour high on Gretina's normally sallow cheeks.
But in 2001, the Supreme Court handed down a decision against The New York Times, disallowing the electronic distribution of archived stories done by freelancers who had copyrights on the material.
He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun
As such, we disallow it as a valid operation on numbers.
The results, as you may expect, showed that teams that score more goals have more disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
His complexion had darkened, sallowed; his black moustache had lost boldness, become sardonic; there were lines which she did not know about his face. In Chancery
So, unlike the identity theory, functionalism ends up disallowing mind/body causation.
Her sallow skin was drawn tightly across the bones of her face.
The chairman disallowed the veracity of his report.
For the second time in as many games, goals which should have stood were disallowed thanks to some disputable refereeing.
For a moment, he simply watched his sleeping lover - he'd lost weight to a foul stomach and not eating for several days; his eyes were sunken, and sallow splotches had began to discolor his skin.
He had a good-looking goal disallowed - then ended up with a hamstring injury. The Sun
Earlier, Danny Masumba's goal that would have made Celtic take the lead in the first half was disallowed in the 44 minute with the referee signaling it was an offside.
It was a shock to hear him rule that my testimony would be disallowed.
Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
Since every disease or unwanted condition exists because Well-Being is being disallowed, then, in the absence of that disallowance, Well-Being will return.
The officer's intuitions, gut feelings and sixth sense about a situation are all disallowed.
Since the Live Aid movement captured the hearts and wallets of people in the Occidental world, the sallow-faced Ethiopian child has come to emblematize Africa: exotic, needy, and victimized. Rosalia Gitau: T.I.A.: This Is Africa
When the money addict disallows this "messiness" he puts a hamper on personal growth for himself and those around him. Dr. Tian Dayton: Money Addiction
Then a book case across the room swung open and a thin, balding, sallow-faced man crept out, shaking slightly with some unfelt cold.
We shall attempt to recover the premium from you opponent, if you win your case, but the Court may disallow it in whole or in part.
Between them they should have seen it and disallowed the goal. The Sun
In the early part of the second half Bolton had two tries disallowed and against the run of play Mayfield took the lead.
The goal 's been disallowed. Times, Sunday Times
Of course I might not get the point I can almost assure you that whether to exempt admins from the username disallow was never considered, so it is neither oversight nor bug. PhpBB.com
Mercia was watching her parent's faces; sallow skin, dark bags under their lifeless eyes.
Northumberland are lusty fellows, fresh complexioned, cleanly, and well cloathed; but the labourers in Scotland are generally lank, lean, hard-featured, sallow, soiled, and shabby, and their little pinched blue caps have a beggarly effect. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Bill C - 325, introduced by Canadian Alliance MP Rick Casson, was defeated by a Liberal majority disallowing volunteer emergency workers to deduct $3,000 from their taxable income.
The illness has sallowed her face
She also saw how curiously the sun sallowed him, and how many more hollows he had in his face than most people. The Path of a Star
The small man with the sallow complexion and expressionless eyes seems to have made no particular impression on anyone with whom he came into contact during that time.
But, the company is as bad as Microsoft regarding disallowance of its gadgets to play well with others (hello, iTunes). An abused employee fights back. «
And in keeping with the theme here ... noting that the disparate impact is so obvious with respect to the refusal to include abortion coverage and to even go so far as disallowing people from obtaining any gap-cover insurance that would cover an abortion: keep in mind that the GOP's and fundy morons 'response to that concern is "so stop reproducing." sj GOP head demands apology for slavery remark
In Gee v. the Queen, the deduction of management fees was disallowed essentially because of lack of documentation.
If ministerial answerability cannot be adequately established, the question cannot be accepted and would ultimately be disallowed by the Speaker.
While such definitions are generally vague enough to allow for fiction founded on most any conceit of technical possibility (i.e. “speculative elements” in general rather than specific conceits like the robot or the rocketship), incoherent attempts to disallow conceits of metaphysical impossibility have led to an artificial distinction between futurological Sci-Fi and works of a more conceptual nature. Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy?
Kim suggests that “equivalence seems to fail, through the failure of implication from global to strong supervenience, only when extrinsic properties are present in the supervenient set but disallowed from the subvenient base” (1993, 170; see also McLaughlin 1997a, 215). Supervenience
His short and curly dark hair was tousled from a morning of sleep and his usually olive skin had the sallow tone of the hungover.
Of those neologies which he disallowed, he only anticipated in some cases, as in English Past and Present
There was a 20% reduction in the number of appeals against decisions disallowing unemployment payments, while appeals relating to disability benefit fell by 13%.
I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disannul all and every former will, testament, legacies, bequests and exaction by me in any way before named, willed or bequested in ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and testament.
They were unlucky not to take lead after 10 minutes when Gavin Peavoy touched down but the referee being unsighted disallowed what appeared to be a good score.
Dean told of a telephone conversation, during which IRS staffers made rude remarks and joked about the disallowance of a contribution deduction. Julian Block: Filing-Time Fantasies
He quotes also a poem that calls the sallow ‘the strength of bees’, and the hawthorn, ‘the barking of hounds’, and the gooseberry bush, ‘the sweetest of trees’, and the yew, ‘the oldest of trees’. Later Articles and Reviews
While frolicking tourists sunbathe on beaches and dine in swanky resorts, while a few thousand elite Moroccans are living high on the hog, millions of malnourished, destitute, and sallow Moroccans in remote rural areas scratch the dirt for survival and take shelter in dwellings so sparsely furnished and poorly built that they look like caves. Global Voices in English » Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World
Between them they should have seen it and disallowed the goal. The Sun
They win more penalties, have fewer people booked, have more goals against them disallowed. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
KING: Hardly put a foot wrong and had try disallowed. The Sun
But it also participates in that taxonomic and totalizing impulse by disallowing for the possibility of alternative histories of sexualities that may or may not have fit under the fin de siècle homosexual rubric.
Chris Ince had a goal disallowed and Tim Downie shaved a post after a fine run, while Chris Burn pulled off several fine stops in the York goal.
Poor fellow! he seemed peakier and more sallow than when I had seen him last. The Stark Munro Letters
But the video ref, after long thought, rightly disallowed the try and that was the end of the magic. Times, Sunday Times
If your complexion is a bit sallow or rosy, pick a wheat shade of blond. Louis Licari: Old Fashion vs. On Trend
The “public disclosure” exception to the qui tam provisions of the FCA is meant to disallow plaintiffs from cashing in on fraud that is already in the public domain. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” (continued)
Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
His first effort, five minutes before the interval, was controversially disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
As is indicated above the judge must specify the sum to be disallowed or ordered.
His words may be apprehended as if they disallowed only divorce for 'common discontents in unstaid minds,' having no cause but a 'desire for change;' and then we agree. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649
A sallow aesthete, lantern-jawed, was lost in reverie, illusion or void. PASSION IN THE PEAK
The UN Special Committee that vetoes imports to Iraq disallows essential painkillers, such as morphine and other chemotherapy medicines.
They win more penalties, have fewer people booked, have more goals against them disallowed. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
Taxpayers may deduct 100% of the car's cost in the first year—subject to the personal use disallowance, of course. The New Tax Breaks for Business Autos
He headed way over with the goal gaping, had a goal disallowed for offside and had a good penalty appeal waved away. The Sun
Abner! "and he called his sallow-faced companion, who was already arguing salvation and temperance with some of the crew. Hawaii
They are sallow, fretty, plain little things, but I'm conscientiously liking them as hard as ever I can. Jane Journeys On
The men sallow, meagre, and wearing those trousers which, cut very wide and flappy at the ankles, make them the dowdiest men in the world. Half Portions
The first thing that frightened me was the pale sallow color of my skin, which I originally thought was from my extreme and deathly loss of blood.
This morning's horror, the sallow? faced pervert who'd accosted her, all faded at the sight of the glorious bewinged apparition paralleling the bus. The Metrognome and Other Stories
The referee overruled the linesman and disallowed the goal leading to protests which halted the game for several minutes.
His first effort, five minutes before the interval, was controversially disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
We then discuss altern - materials license disallowed using much ate curriculum creation models and some of the existing materials. of the conditions that are necessary for successful collaboration between creators In the first round of the effort, Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Sutcliffe was desperately unlucky to see a further effort disallowed for offside on the intervention of the touch judge but West's were looking dangerous at only
It cost ￡639, expenditure which the district auditor disallowed.
That is why IFA is making a major push in the negotiations with Government for incentives, through tax relief and social welfare disallowances, to encourage medium-term land leasing at an affordable price.
KING: Hardly put a foot wrong and had try disallowed. The Sun
The results, as you may expect, showed that teams that score more goals have more disallowed for offside. Times, Sunday Times
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, convinced Sen. Harry Reid that there should be a vote to "disallow" the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific finding that global warming represents a danger to human health. Michael Kieschnick: The Senate Almost Votes to Join the Flat Earth Society
Our sallow skin and lean, ravenous eyes (so suggestive of scurvy) give us away.
There are no real icteric symptoms, but there is a peculiar sallow complexion. Bird & Wildlife Accessories
Other expenses whose disallowance were upheld included dry cleaning bills ( "no evidence that dry cleaning is a normal or customary expense in the business of sports writing," the judge wrote) and the taking of the standard mileage deduction on rental cars. In Tax Court, Horse Racing Writer Finishes Out Of The Money
The only exception to this rule is that transitions to stop codons are disallowed.
He rode hurriedly from the battlefield and returned to the Shevardino knoll, where he sat on his campstool, his sallow face swollen and heavy, his eyes dim, his nose red, and his voice hoarse, involuntarily listening, with downcast eyes, to the sounds of firing. War and Peace
The withy is a reasonable large tree, (for some have been found ten foot about) is fit to be planted on high banks, and ditch-sides within reach of water and the weeping sides of hills; because they extend their roots deeper than either sallows or willows. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees
That was a neat strike by Mendez, but it's disallowed for offside.
A portion of rentals on leased cars costing in excess of ￡12,000 is disallowed for tax purposes.
The court confirmed a 1989 federal ruling disallowing legal action against the logging brought on environmental grounds.
I left money on the table and got out into the sallow light on the pavement. A DARKENING STAIN
The referee disallowed the try for a forward pass.
A person with strong digestive organs has a yellowish complexion with luster and a person with a disease of the digestive organs has a sallow complexion and is emaciated, fatigued or has a diseased color that is hard to describe with words.
The goal was disallowed because Wark was offside.
Round eyes as dark as a faery's stared out from sunken and sallow sockets, ringed by dark purple bags.
The driver is described as a white male, late 20s or early 30s, thin build, 5ft 9ins, with dark hair and a sallow complexion, unshaven and wearing a dark sweater and trousers.
Occasionally, wrongdoings are revealed: last March, it disallowed ‘a large quantity’ of Guardian-Observer bulk sales.
A thin zombie-like man with yellow sallow skin, long stringy hair and bloodshot eyes stared at them.
Accordingly, saving is self-defeating, as a loss in income will disallow individuals to save over the long-run.
He loves me, reverend father, "and a transient glow passed o'er the sallow, cheek of the religieux; 'with all the energy of his grateful nature loves me, for what he terms the beneficence of charity, what I term the bare impulse of duty. The confessional of Valombre
The people are thus far nearly white in the colour of their skin, but in the more southerly of the three regions above defined, with a mixture of brown, or of the complexion of brunettes, or such as we term swarthy or sallow persons. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
The particular Louisiana statute which allows emergency controls on firearms also clearly disallows the complete prohibition being imposed by the New Orleans chief of police.
All state and local tax deductions, casualty and theft losses, and miscellaneous itemized deductions are disallowed.
Yet another Italian goal was wrongly disallowed for offside. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
McEwen said he personally contacted the parents of all 17 boys on the list before calling a state meeting of the church to "disallow" Dykes, or limit his church involvement, and counsel him to "repent of his errors. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Clad in a dark silk robe-de-chambre, with her cheek pressed against the blue velvet lining of the chair, Cornelia's face wore a sickly, sallow hue, which was rendered more palpable by her black, glittering eyes and jetty hair. Beulah
Better, said Blatter, to allow an offside goal than to disallow a good one.
If Textron thought there was a chance that the IRS would disallow a deduction, it would set aside -- or "accrue" -- a portion of the expected savings. WSJ: Textron Battles DOJ on Access to Work Papers in SILO Tax Shelter Investigation
Productions whose content is considered to be inconsonant with the ideals and missions of Boston College will be disallowed.
The treaty bars setting up barrage and disallow storage of waters of rivers flowing from Kashmir into Pakistan.
Others also do hang a cross made of the Elder and Sallow, mutually inwrapping one another, about the children's neck as anti-epileptick. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
'disallowance' under which the Crown occasionally annuls colonial Acts which have received the assent of a colonial Governor. A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893
I had just come from another establishment, where I had seen hundreds of full-size stock plants in growing rooms, bathed in the sallow light of high-pressure sodium lamps. Boutique buds: What underground mom-and-pop growers did while we debated legalization
She was wearing a bluish print dress that brought out a kind of sallow warmth in her skin, and although it was nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, her sleeves were tucked up, as if for some domestic work, above the elbows, showing her rather slender but very shapely yellowish arms. The History of Mr. Polly
There was the sort of sallow shapelessness about it that derives from simultaneous over-eating and under-sleeping.
But the real interest for evolutionary biologists is that these hierarchies not only favor the evolution of certain forms but also disallow the growth of others, determining what can and cannot arise not only in the course of the growth of an embryo, but also over the history of life itself. Ancient Sleep and Flipping Switches
They say that it's not for commercial use in the terms and whatnot, but an easier way to enforce it is to just disallow anything that looks like it might be trademarked or copyrighted.
They entered a small room, divided unequally by a barrier desk; behind it stood a lean, coffee-sallowed young man with a scrawny neck displayed to the uttermost by a standing collar scarcely taller than the band of a shirt. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I
But the full rigour of the regulations will be applied with claw-backs and disallowances being enforced.
The sallow-faced Salome averts her scheming eyes from what she has brought about.
This morning's horror, the sallow-faced pervert who'd accosted her, all faded at the sight of the glorious bewinged apparition paralleling the bus. The Metrognome and other Stories
But, upon the whole, it could not be fairly said that his appearance was unprepossessing; indeed, to the congenial, it would have been doubtless not uncongenial; while to others, it could not fail to be at least curiously interesting, from the warm air of florid cordiality, contrasting itself with one knows not what kind of aguish sallowness of saving discretion lurking behind it. The Confidence-Man
The cock was always conspicuous on any walk one took into the fens, with black cap and bib and white collar, flying up on to a sallow bush, uttering a wheezy jingle of alarm notes.
In their allowed pleasures and pastimes, let them wear that spiritual hauberk which is invulnerable to the darts of the wicked; let them steadfastly set their faces against whatever thy word disallows; and, should fiery trial and temptation beset them, enable them, having done all, to stand. Jacques Bonneval
In their three games, four Italian goals had been wrongly disallowed for offside and one for a supposed foul on the goalkeeper. Calcio: A History of Italian Football
A thin zombie-like man with yellow sallow skin, long stringy hair and bloodshot eyes stared at them.
Despite the obvious advantages of a unified perspective for collective political action, the differences among women disallow such a perspective.
Through the saddle-colored hordes on the moot ground of the narrow sidewalks moves an occasional Anglo-Saxon resident, browned and sallowed, on his way to the government concession that he manages; a less occasional The Unspeakable Perk
Helder Postiga has a header rightly disallowed for offside, but for a horrible split-second it looked like it was a good goal.
The oxygen is designed to give skin that's tired and sallow a jump-start.
He can be extremely peremptory and dismissive at a seminar, disallowing questions that he thinks can divert the drift of the discourse or introduce an inappropriate idiom into it.
Sallow-eyed, furtive, maybe a little brighter than the poor boy in the grocery store, backwoodsy but not an idiot. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
I've got disallowed the password resend page, reactivation page, webmail, rss feed, search page, and a posting page. PhpBB.com
In the dining-room there was now a Sicilian called Gianni: sallow, with black crinkly hair and appalling teeth, he exuded self-love. POLITICAL SUICIDE
The linesman flagged in error and the goal was disallowed. Times, Sunday Times
His black hair was drawn up in thick spikes, and he had a sallow face which was a ghastly white.
The bark of what we call asp-wood, ma'am, which is a kind of sallow; they lay up great quantities of it in the autumn as a provision for winter, when they are frozen up for some months. The Settlers in Canada
This 10-minute mask gives an invigorating glow of freshness to lifeless sallow skin.
wv: 'abled' as in 'disabled ranting when the Old Testament is disallowed' Outrage can be so context dependent, can't it?
She sat down idly before her dressing-table and met again her sallowed face in the mirror. Married Life The True Romance
Her claim was disallowed on the ground that she had not paid her premium.
Had a goal harshly disallowed, missed another glaring opportunity but worked tirelessly. Times, Sunday Times
I thought all of the responses had merit - for example, writer Michael Pollan offered "enzymatically altered corn glucose" which has an appropriately frankenfoodish ring about it - but my vote was to disallow any change. Dr. Andrew Weil: Fortunately, 'Corn Sugar' Has Become a Sticky PR Mess
A few years ago, my team lost a local derby, and had a goal disallowed in the last minute.
Have no special circumstance at school 7:30 - 16:30 disallow to open the cellular phone.
Old Dr. Jenkins stood behind the showcase in his drug-store dealing out quinine pills and earache drops to the poor country folk and negroes, who, with sallow faces or heads bound up, declared themselves "chillin '" or "painful" while they waited. In Simpkinsville : character tales,
Vendor, agent, factor, etc. , is hereby notified that discount granted under this P. O. may not be subsequently disallowed for late payment.
Dowley was unlucky to see her own hat-trick opportunity disallowed after a thunderous short corner strike was judged to have illegally deflected off a defender.
Jude was as thin as a stick and his bones protruded through sallow skin.
Ignore to meet and when what circumstance, I definitely disallow oneself to have disappointed a little.
He sat looking out of the window, glumly taking in the commercial spires in the distance; his sallow, yearning spirit seemed to have come forth from some mute backland in which his efforts had a bitter, pioneer necessity. Grub Street: New York
I left money on the table and got out into the sallow light on the pavement. A DARKENING STAIN
Of course, any site can shut down the indexing of its content by Google any time it wants with a simple "disallow" in its robots. txt file. Arianna Huffington: Journalism 2009: Desperate Metaphors, Desperate Revenue Models, And The Desperate Need For Better Journalism
As I turned the handle I wondered idly what kind of sallow Turk or bulging-necked German we should find inside. Greenmantle
If you chance to take an elegant drive up the 'Fifth Avenue,' and meet a dashing equipage -- say with horses terribly caparisoned, a purloined crest on the carriage-door, a sallow-faced footman covered up in a green coat, all over big brass buttons, stuck up behind, and a whiskey-faced coachman half-asleep in a great hammercloth, be sure it belongs to some snob who has not a sentence of good English in his head. An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
She was a little unhealthy thing, dark and sallow and sulky, with thin lips that showed a lack of temperament, and she had a stiffness and preciseness, like a Board School teacher -- just that touch of "commonness" which Lena relied on to put him off. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
The description of the untamed faun as he then appeared is not flattering: his complexion sallow, his hair stiff, his figure slight, his expression lusterless, his manner insignificant. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)
Amongst herbs I have eaten I find gourds, cucumbers, coleworts, melons, disallowed, but especially cabbage.
Opponents of one-island-one-city are urging the federal cabinet to veto Bill 170 by exercising the little-used disallowance clause.
Excessive job security that disallows employers from getting rid of redundant labour is the main cause for this jobless growth.
He wore a checkered cloak over a sweater or two and heavy trousers, sported a full dark moustache and whiskers, he seemed a pensive type, sallow-faced and quiet.
Already, looking down at the piles of papers on his desk, then back up at Ruby with quick, almost silvery eyes set incongruously in a pouchy, sallow face, he seemed ready to ask her to leave his office. DIAMOND RUBY
The Board's disallowance of these signatures left Mayor Williams considerably below the 2000 signatures required for ballot access.
The omnifarious assembly included pale, prim-whiskered young clerks; shabby, lonely, sallow young women, whose sallowness and shabbiness stamped them with the mark of integrity; other females whose specious splendor was not nearly so reassuring; old men, broken-down men, middle-aged men of every description, except the well-to-do. Short Story Classics (American) Vol. 2
A sallow aesthete, lantern-jawed, was lost in reverie, illusion or void. PASSION IN THE PEAK
However, the goal was disallowed after Hilborn was called for a pushing-off foul.
In the dim light of the tent his bony features reflected Leah's sallow grimace, Ksandra's pinched cheeks.
The Internal Revenue Service sought to disallow the payments.
The purple osier is already set with green points from which are to emerge fluffy catkins, and the sallow is preparing its gold and silver blossoms which are to be the early palm, dripping with honey and humming with insects. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

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