swarth

Example Sentences

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A tall, wiry man, with coal-black hair and deep-set eyes and a scar across his swarth skin, smiled pleasantly down at me.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

The roof-ribs swarth, the candent hearth, the ruddy lurid row Of smiths that stand, an ardent band, like men before the foe!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Its outlines were too bold for a Spanish face, though the complexion, from tan and exposure, was brown and swarth.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

Through the reserves round about for many miles swarth heralds proclaimed that the great Chief Big Bear was giving a White Dog feast to his braves before summoning them to follow him upon the war-path.

From The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief by Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)