swarth

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Carrying a girl was harder on the mother, too, physicians agreed, with the pregnant woman more likely to have “a pale, heavy, and swarth countenance, a melancholic eye.”

From Time

The content is placed in manageable chunks which you can move through easily rather than a continuous swarth of chapter after chapter.

From Forbes

The poet Cowper, in his Task, more than a hundred years ago, appreciatively spoke of “The villas with which London stands begirt, Like a swarth Indian with his belt of beads.”

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Swarth, swawrth, n. a wraith, apparition of a person about to die.

From Project Gutenberg