swarth
1 Americannoun
adjective
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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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Wingless, though, are these, And swarth, and every way abominable.
From Story of Orestes A Condensation of the Trilogy by Richard Green Moulton
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 J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins
The last hue of sunset had died from the swarth hills, and in the east were pale points of starlight.
From Thyrza by George Gissing
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 Myra Reynolds
Its outlines were too bold for a Spanish face, though the complexion, from tan and exposure, was brown and swarth.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
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