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

Some in my father’s swarthy family liked to claim descent from Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition to Poland — perhaps there was a reason for my affinity for Mediterranean food!

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020

He, on the other hand, was swarthy, big fishhook of a nose, two inches shorter than she.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018

His hair was black; his eyes were black; his complexion was swarthy.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

A slim, swarthy young fellow, Lupe moved softly as a cat, and purred when he spoke.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

They were swarthier and stockier than the man who had interested me, and had indefinite, soft eyes.

From The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

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

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

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

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