swarth
Example Sentences
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My little dark love is a wineberry, As swarth and as sweet, I hold; But as the dew on the wineberry Her heart is a-cold.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
The name of this knight was Sir Nabon, surnamed le Noir; for he was very swarth of hue, and he always wore armor entirely of black.
From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle
What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk All hope of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
Most of you, fellow-citizens, can show your hard hands, and recall the burning suns under which you have opened the swarth, through those then lovely meadows yonder, as your titles to these farms.
From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
The last hue of sunset had died from the swarth hills, and in the east were pale points of starlight.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
