swarthy

"He had a swarthy, clever face, a pointed beard, and Harry noticed, very long fingers and feet," it says.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022

He turned down the offer of professional makeup, which left him perspiring and with a swarthy five o’clock shadow under the studio’s bright lights.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2019

He, on the other hand, was swarthy, big fishhook of a nose, two inches shorter than she.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2018

A swarthy man with smooth dark hair was sitting in a red leather armchair with a copy of the Financial Times and a cup of tea.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn’t recollect in the swarthy gloom.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

He was taller, swarthier and more imposing than I had expected.

From Time Magazine Archive

Behind him marched proudly a dusty line of men, well-armed and bearing great battle-axes; grim-faced they were, and shorter and somewhat swarthier than any men that Pippin had yet seen in Gondor.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

They were swarthier and stockier than the man who had interested me, and had indefinite, soft eyes.

From The Eye of Zeitoon by Mundy, Talbot

I am about the height of the Romans, and am swarthier than the Gauls, and could, if I borrowed the dress of one of the goatherds, pass among them without notice.

From Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Rend not the oak and the ivy in twain, Nor the swart maid from her swarthier swain.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean

Amid a roar of rage from a thousand throats, a roar that might have shaken the stoutest heart, and blanched the swarthiest cheek, Bezers disappeared within!

From The House of the Wolf; a romance by Weyman, Stanley John

And do you, sir," continued the Guardsman to the swarthiest of them all, "feel the heat of the climate much?

From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

The coarsest complexion gains in lustre and smoothness when attempt is made to render it upon ivory; the dainty groundwork gleams through and gives beauty and clearness to the swarthiest hues.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

The swarthiest among the swarthy faces, the darkest of dark hair, the most passionate among the fiery spirits belonged to Isaak Todros.

From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by Soissons, C. S. de