olive-skinned
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Olive-skinned, bright-eyed, golden-haired, a Donatello David perfect and cruel.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2011
Olive-skinned Miss Perkins wears black dresses and over her wavy dark hair a brown tricorne hat almost as distinctive as the Brown Derby.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Olive-skinned Albertina Vitak with smooth ease cringed, skipped, loved, pleaded from the first to the final bar.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Olive-skinned sig�ors and olive-skinned sig�oritas round out the circle of their lives and there lie down and die, unknowing and unknown; they and their fellows, undreamed of, the land of their abode a hazy myth.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis
Olive-skinned like the messenger, he was, and with the high forehead of an intellectual.
From The Copper-Clad World by Vincent, Harl