swarth

Example Sentences

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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 Phelps, William Lyon

A sturdy fellow he was, swarth of skin and full whiskered.

From Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

The countenances of these men were swarth and savage-looking, their hair long, straight, and black as the wing of a crow; while both beard and moustache grew wildly over their faces.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

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

“Hey, here’s owd Ransome and Tomson, the man as neither liked gristle nor swarth, but was very fond o’ pig’s feet.”

From The Parson O' Dumford by Fenn, George Manville