swarth

Example Sentences

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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)

The last hue of sunset had died from the swarth hills, and in the east were pale points of starlight.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

Sunlight was streaming through and brightening up the cottages and resting on uncle Darry's swarth face.

From Daisy by Warner, Susan

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)

A tall, wiry man, with coal-black hair and deep-set eyes and a scar across his swarth skin, smiled pleasantly down at me.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)