swarth

Example Sentences

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Then, dropping her eyes to the ground, she stood silent under the tree—her swarth complexion still further darkened by sombre shadows, now overspreading every feature of her face.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

The last hue of sunset had died from the swarth hills, and in the east were pale points of starlight.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

Most of you, fellow-citizens, can show your hard hands, and recall the burning suns under which you have opened the swarth, through those then lovely meadows yonder, as your titles to these farms.

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

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