swarthy

"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

Snow, the King in the North, was the perfect swarthy counterpart in his dark leather and furs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2019

This officer was thin and swarthy, and he had sad eyes.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019

“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

He was swarthy, dark haired, and one of those men who always look as if they need a shave no matter what the time of day.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

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

He compared that glow to the insurgent blood ever ready to mantle in the cheeks of the Sitt Hilda; but this was a warmer, swarthier flush than ever dyed the white skin of a Frank.

From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall

These men were much shorter than the Iceni, they were swarthier in complexion, and their hair was long and matted.

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

He was a much darker man than any other present—had, in fact, the appearance of a man of even a swarthier race than that of the others about us.

From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

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

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

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

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