1870 Apr. 287 Give me a nice fresh colour, with good curly hair and whiskers, and eyes like sloes, and anybody may have the peaky-faced, yellow-haired gentlemen for me.
1906 12 May 11/2 A peaky-faced boy of about nine.
1996 (Nexis) 18 Feb. The raggedy, peaky-faced children..scrambling over the still unfilled bomb craters of post-war London.