dark-complexioned
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On her deck Admiral Samuel S. Robison,*sturdy stocky, determined, dark-complexioned with iron-grey hair and a close-clipped mustache, faced Admiral Robert E. Coontz, for two years Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet.
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Hardly anyone paid much attention to four dark-complexioned young men who mingled with the crowd.
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Her dark-complexioned face was strikingly beautiful, yet marred by a lofty look of haughtiness.
From The Mother of St. Nicholas A Story of Duty and Peril by Balfour, Grant
He might be forty years old; he was plain-looking, dark-complexioned, and already rather gray-haired.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
George and Sydney Onslow were both dark-complexioned and black-eyed, and had many traits of Spanish origin in appearance, their mother having been from that country.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James