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

Before us stood a dark-complexioned young man, and at his side a small wiry old gentleman, who proved to be a native Austrian Tyrolese, who followed the profession of an artist in Paris.

From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Allen, Thomas Gaskell

It is the practice to speak of the dark-complexioned people of France, Great Britain and Ireland as “black Celts,” although the ancient writers never applied the term “Celt” to any dark-complexioned person.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

In the doorway of the tailor shop is a dark-complexioned man in a gray sharkskin suit.

From The Wailing Octopus by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)