swarth

Example Sentences

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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

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

There were groups of children in many parts of the field, and women to look after them, mostly sitting on the fresh swarth, working and gossiping, while the little ones played about.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

Wingless, though, are these,           And swarth, and every way abominable.

From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Moulton, Richard Green

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)