swarth

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Through the reserves round about for many miles swarth heralds proclaimed that the great Chief Big Bear was giving a White Dog feast to his braves before summoning them to follow him upon the war-path.

From The Story of Louis Riel: the Rebel Chief by Collins, J. E. (Joseph Edmund)

Most of you, fellow-citizens, can show your hard hands, and recall the burning suns under which you have opened the swarth, through those then lovely meadows yonder, as your titles to these farms.

From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore

A sturdy fellow he was, swarth of skin and full whiskered.

From Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)

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.

What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk70 All hope of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra