swart

Example Sentences

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Squiggle, loop, scratch went the fountain pen of a swart little Dictator-King Ahmed Zogu, last week, signing out the old Islamic law of Albania, signing in a new civil code based on the Swiss.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Two thousand miles due south of the Yangtze lie the Dutch East Indies, whence Royal Dutch-Shell and its swart, dynamic head, Sir Henri Deterding, began their march around the world.

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Eight days of Pedro were apparently enough for Chile's wily Dictator, swart President Carlos Ibanez.

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In a Buenos Aires theatre last summer, white-haired Maestro Arturo Toscanini embraced a swart, black-haired, sloe-eyed dancer and cried: "Never in my life have I seen such fire and rhythm!"

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His broad flat face was swart, his eyes were like coals, and his tongue was red; he wielded a great spear.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien