swarth
1 Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of swarth1
before 900; Middle English; Old English swearth, variant of sweard skin, rind; see sward
Origin of swarth2
Unexplained variant of swart
Example Sentences
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What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk70 All hope of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
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)
A sturdy fellow he was, swarth of skin and full whiskered.
From Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks by Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison)
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)
He was as swarth and straight and dauntless as Pierre Radisson, with a sinister daring in his eyes that might have put the seal to any act.
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)
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