swarth

Example Sentences

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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.

What made those holes and rents �70In 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 Browning's Shorter Poems by Baker, Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas)

Its outlines were too bold for a Spanish face, though the complexion, from tan and exposure, was brown and swarth.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

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

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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