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"You miss Russell Crowe, but Mescal is always watchable, with a stocky, swarthy, brooding presence," he added in the four-star review.

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2024

In his Panama hat, his salmon three-piece suit, with his thick mustache, his swarthy olive skin, he looked like one of those national-costume dolls our island tías kept in a cabinet.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2018

“Belushi’s looks are ideal for the role: at once swarthy and cherubic, he suggests a baby sunk in dissipation.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2018

His hair was black; his eyes were black; his complexion was swarthy.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016

He knew Lem Harvey—a huge fellow with hulking shoulders and a sullen, swarthy face.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

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

His face was handsome, and bearded, but swarthier far than his companion's, and the backs of his long fine hands were almost black.

From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

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

From The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

“Allays,” said the one nearest to him, a swarthier, more surly, and fiercer-looking fellow than his companion.

From The Silver Canyon A Tale of the Western Plains by Henri Théophile Hildibrand

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 Dutton Cook

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 Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton

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 C. S. de Soissons

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 Stanley John Weyman