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
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Most of you, fellow-citizens, can show your hard hands, and recall the burning suns under which you have opened the swarth, through those then lovely meadows yonder, as your titles to these farms.
From The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
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 balk All hope of greenness? 'tis a brute must walk Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
From Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Lyon Phelps
My little dark love is a wineberry, As swarth and as sweet, I hold; But as the dew on the wineberry Her heart is a-cold.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
A sturdy fellow he was, swarth of skin and full whiskered.
From Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks by W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) Murray
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