dark-complexioned
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Hardly anyone paid much attention to four dark-complexioned young men who mingled with the crowd.
From Time Magazine Archive
On her deck Admiral Samuel S. Robison,*sturdy stocky, determined, dark-complexioned with iron-grey hair and a close-clipped mustache, faced Admiral Robert E. Coontz, for two years Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
This man was a dark-complexioned, sharp-visaged, long-haired individual, clad in civilian's garb, and wearing a broad-brimmed hat.
From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton
"And is she—" He stopped, and grew scarlet with confusion; but she broke in, laughingly,— "No, not black, only dark-complexioned; in fact, a brunette, and no more."
From Barrington Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
The female whom he dragged along was a lean, ugly, dark-complexioned woman, swooning or near a swoon.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
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