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"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

Some in my father’s swarthy family liked to claim descent from Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition to Poland — perhaps there was a reason for my affinity for Mediterranean food!

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020

His hair was black; his eyes were black; his complexion was swarthy.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

Three months later, roaming the Southland with the swarthy resilience of those dozens of "Game of Thrones" characters he resembles, Turner is everywhere.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2016

We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn’t recollect in the swarthy gloom.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

He was taller, swarthier and more imposing than I had expected.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind him marched proudly a dusty line of men, well-armed and bearing great battle-axes; grim-faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier than any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

His face was handsome, and bearded, but swarthier far than his companion's, and the backs of his long fine hands were almost black.

From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

These men were much shorter than the Iceni, they were swarthier in complexion, and their hair was long and matted.

From Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He was a much darker man than any other present—had, in fact, the appearance of a man of even a swarthier race than that of the others about us.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

Amid a roar of rage from a thousand throats, a roar that might have shaken the stoutest heart, and blanched the swarthiest cheek, Bezers disappeared within!

From The House of the Wolf; a romance by Stanley John Weyman

The swarthiest among the swarthy faces, the darkest of dark hair, the most passionate among the fiery spirits belonged to Isaak Todros.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons

The coarsest complexion gains in lustre and smoothness when attempt is made to render it upon ivory; the dainty groundwork gleams through and gives beauty and clearness to the swarthiest hues.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

And do you, sir," continued the Guardsman to the swarthiest of them all, "feel the heat of the climate much?

From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton