swarth

Example Sentences

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We'll then tow'rds Burgos, And ere the swarth Castilian sees the sun Pour on his rip'ning vines meridian beams, Cæsario's royal dream shall close forever.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

The name of this knight was Sir Nabon, surnamed le Noir; for he was very swarth of hue, and he always wore armor entirely of black.

From The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Pyle, Howard

Why aye!—Let the thick swarth of night cover us!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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

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