swarth

Example Sentences

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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

The countenances of these men were swarth and savage-looking, their hair long, straight, and black as the wing of a crow; while both beard and moustache grew wildly over their faces.

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

My little dark love is a wineberry, As swarth and as sweet, I hold; But as the dew on the wineberry Her heart is a-cold.

From The Mountainy Singer by MacCathmhaoil, Seosamh

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

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)