swarth

Example Sentences

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She is superbly handsome in that rose-colored opera-cloak, and she knows it, and is smiling graciously; but the swarth frown on her husband's face only grows blacker as he looks at her.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes

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

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

What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk70 All hope of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

There were groups of children in many parts of the field, and women to look after them, mostly sitting on the fresh swarth, working and gossiping, while the little ones played about.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

His whistle clear rings full of cheer, And lo! his comrades true, All swarth and lusty, with fire poles trusty, Burst on Sir Konrad's view.

From A Book of Golden Deeds by Yonge, Charlotte Mary