swarth

Example Sentences

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It is either Raven’s thwaite or Raven’s swarth, but never worth, which is here meaningless.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William

Rubies and precious stones are only born Amidst the rugged rocks, uncouth and swarth.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

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 MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

Why aye!—Let the thick swarth of night cover us!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

Wingless, though, are these,           And swarth, and every way abominable.

From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green