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"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

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

A swarthy man with smooth dark hair was sitting in a red leather armchair with a copy of the Financial Times and a cup of tea.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

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

“Allays,” said the one nearest to him, a swarthier, more surly, and fiercer-looking fellow than his companion.

From The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains by Henri Théophile Hildibrand

A twenty-third, not so vile-featured but swarthier of skin, sank softly against the logs at the rear of the shack, one ear pressed to a chink.

From The Return of Blue Pete by Luke Allan

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

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 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

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 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