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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hardly anyone paid much attention to four dark-complexioned young men who mingled with the crowd.
From Time Magazine Archive
He might be forty years old; he was plain-looking, dark-complexioned, and already rather gray-haired.
From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte
"And is she—" He stopped, and grew scarlet with confusion; but she broke in, laughingly,— "No, not black, only dark-complexioned; in fact, a brunette, and no more."
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
"No; he might have been a foreigner, but he was not dark-complexioned."
From Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives by Pinkerton, Allan
