swarthy

"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet," it says.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022

He turned down the offer of professional makeup, which left him perspiring and with a swarthy five o’clock shadow under the studio’s bright lights.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2019

Snow, the King in the North, was the perfect swarthy counterpart in his dark leather and furs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2019

In his Panama hat, his salmon three-piece suit, with his thick mustache, his swarthy olive skin, he looked like one of those national-costume dolls our island tías kept in a cabinet.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

And with a giant and a strangely scarred swarthy fellow.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman

He was taller, swarthier and more imposing than I had expected.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind him marched proudly a dusty line of men, well-armed and bearing great battle-axes; grim-faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier than any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

These men were much shorter than the Iceni, they were swarthier in complexion, and their hair was long and matted.

From Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I am about the height of the Romans, and am swarthier than the Gauls, and could, if I borrowed the dress of one of the goatherds, pass among them without notice.

From Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He compared that glow to the insurgent blood ever ready to mantle in the cheeks of the Sitt Hilda; but this was a warmer, swarthier flush than ever dyed the white skin of a Frank.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

Amid a roar of rage from a thousand throats, a roar that might have shaken the stoutest heart, and blanched the swarthiest cheek, Bezers disappeared within!

From The House of the Wolf; a romance by Stanley John Weyman

The swarthiest among the swarthy faces, the darkest of dark hair, the most passionate among the fiery spirits belonged to Isaak Todros.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons

And do you, sir," continued the Guardsman to the swarthiest of them all, "feel the heat of the climate much?

From Here, There and Everywhere by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

The coarsest complexion gains in lustre and smoothness when attempt is made to render it upon ivory; the dainty groundwork gleams through and gives beauty and clearness to the swarthiest hues.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook