Later it would be different. Old and young, talkative and taciturn, rich planter and sallow Cracker, they all had two things in common, lice and dysentery.
A ray fell on his features; the cheeks were sallow, and half covered with black whiskers; the brows lowering, the eyes deep set and singular. I remembered the eyes.
It was common knowledge that Snape wanted the Defense Against the Dark Arts job, but even Harry, who hated Snape, was startled at the expression twisting his thin, sallow face.
Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above. Black leather coat, red scarf, faded jeans. A thin boy, a little sallow, and a tad short for his twelve years.
A sallow man with a pocked doughy face stepped through the cellar door, holding a butcher's heavy cleaver. " Three, are you? We got horsemeat enough for three, The horse was old and tough, but the meat's still fresh" .