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Sentence Examples
But I couldn't help but wonder, if that's how an innocuous honky is treated, what's happening to the swarthy bearded types?
A number of swarthy men in bizarre dark glasses had taken over the fishing activity.
She is brought coral and pearls in a conch by a young negress whose dark skin distracts attention from her own swarthy Breton complexion.
The people of Nwhagen have skin ranging from swarthy to dark olive in color.
Police said the man had a swarthy complexion, was generally unkempt, around 5ft 10 in tall and slim.
A plain child with swarthy features, she would turn into an auburn-haired beauty with dimples, large blue eyes and long, slim legs.
Every slightly swarthy man who emerged from the arrivals gate got his picture taken.
Exorbitantly priced restaurants, for one week, set up a special menu for us swarthy groundlings.
Awnings shade raucous vegetable sellers while swarthy men with wooden carts hawk pomegranates, dates and mangoes.
Depending on the waters mood you might have a calm dark sea or a swarthy raging waves in the middle of a storm and it looks so realistic.
Other swarthy writer types, wistful wayward dreamers, my room-mates, a couple of co-workers, my own current female interest.
One only need to walk down King William Street to see mobs of swarthy young men in expensive leather jackets using the very latest mobile phones.
One movie involves cute little nerdy kids while the other involves swarthy, gamblers hunched over large piles of chips?
Tens of thousands of people now live and work in Docklands, rather more yuppie financial types than the swarthy dockers of old.
Rochester is a swarthy, middle-aged, rich country gentleman, with a wife locked up in a secret chamber in his house.
A big, swarthy man who looked a little like Uncle Jake, especially around the eyes, came back to Schyler.
Those two swarthy fellows you can't tell apart are Ajab and Gurdeep, who with their wives, Fariba and Anna run the galley.
He was Edward Rose, a swarthy man with black, Cherokee, and white blood in his veins.
Bill is quite swarthy, and generally has a few days growth of designer stubble on his face.
Just then a lean, swarthy guy in a white sailor's cap and navy pea coat walked in.
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The small swarthy beetle of a king, as he appears in Carle Vanloo's portrait at Versailles, was insatiate.
Ricky's grin of recognition revealed a healthy complement of gleaming white dentition, all the more albescent in contrast to his swarthy visage.
For that matter, in all episodes of the original series, Klingons are portrayed as swarthy looking humans wearing black clothing.
He looks like a gigolo, or a drug lord, or some other kind of swarthy lowlife.
The beady eyes of the swarthy man focused on his like a snake upon its prey, and he hunched up, balling his fists, his body lean and ornery.
All this makes European football look like one of those dingy dive bars where a dozen or so swarthy, unshaven toughs chase two or three belles.
Four marines emerged on deck with a swarthy looking, squint-eyed pirate, his arms and legs in irons.
He has a swarthy common charm that is unique, and it's nice to see someone other than a classic Hollywood leading man helming a romance.
But the swarthy Greek waiter with the snake hips and the cheesy chat-up lines has suddenly turned into the man of your dreams.
The swarthy Australian bustled into the box and lashed the ball urgently past Roy, the last, florid statement in what had become a hollow argument.
The Thames was frozen and the vast auditorium less than a third full, but from his first appearance the small, swarthy actor electrified the audience.
Everyone was waiting for the swarthy man to come bursting in again, but the minutes ticked by and nobody appeared.
The March folk lay blame on the Eth woman Amunet, who stuck out with her swarthy skin and pale white hair threaded with silver.
The swarthy man who paid little heed to the bottle and glass incident continued embroiled in a heated argument with one of the girls.
Citizens believed that these swarthy people, with their thieving transactions and licentious sexuality, had no morals.
That, as generations of swarthy, golden-haired hulks will tell you, is because such islands create a natural breakwater.
Many icons and paintings depict him as a man with a white beard and a swarthy complexion.
And these prisoners swarthy, kneeling and bound a little higher, who are they?
Where is Sarah Palin when Arizona writes harassment of the swarthy into state law?
He was swarthy and well-built, with dark hair and a moustache.
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Goodwin looked like someone had hit her behind the eyes with a quarter megaton of fissionables as her swarthy face darkened and her hands on the table clinched.
Many may believe that once we have them, policemen will stop swarthy characters on street corners and promptly deport those who have no right to remain.
We have lunch at a place called Christophe, which was opposite a working-class joint, where swarthy men sat behind a grill filled with roasting sausages.
Robert hardly noticed as the ghostly voice rasped from his speaker, making his knees knock together like a pair of bongo drums being played by a swarthy, godless native.
While one side of his face had the swarthy beauty of a fallen angel, the left half was marred by a thick, puckered scar running from temple to chin.
How could she, so blonde, be living with these swarthy people?
Every tint, from black African to swarthy Corsican, is represented.
Traditionally one of them, usually Balthazar, was swarthy, darkening over the centuries until Hieronymous Bosch makes him black as coal, his skin contrasted with robes of gleaming white damask.
Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.
Played by Jonathan Cake, Tyrannus is one of nature's noblemen — a swarthy, prognathous hunk of man with unerring instincts for doing the right thing.
In the same way no reproach could be made, under a pretext of political or racial solidarity to people with swarthy or dark complexion who accompany Nicolas Sarkozy, they are more like him than anyone else.
Straight away the swarthy man followed her example.
Whether he was at peace with his swarthy, bewrinkled old helpmate I do not know, but he appeared to be, and with his several partially grown children.
Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
Examples from Classical Literature
Here, in the commodious yards, the weary horses and their swarthy jehus slept in the open air.
Jarring gazed after her with an expression of owlish and unutterable surprise on his swarthy countenance.
Of the two wrestlers, one was a veritable giant of a Canuck, swarthy of skin, hairy-chested.
In the centre of it all stands the organ-grinder, swarthy and black-haired.
A swarthy fellow, with the face of a charcoal burner, sat on a stump, and Tom wondered that he had not seen him as he approached.
A squat, swarthy man with rugged features, a caboclo, of white and Indian blood.
The name had a foreign sound, and the man's complexion was swarthy, and in all simplicity I asked if he was a Minorcan.
He shot out his left hand, jabbing at the swarthy face of the Mexican.
In front came a man wearing a strange shako and a blue cloak, swarthy, sunburned, and with a hooked nose.
He was a broadshouldered loose-limbed swarthy fellow of great strength, never in a hurry, and always slouching.
Moreover, he had a swarthy foreignness of complexion which boded little honesty.
The sun had smoked him till he was as swarthy as the Ojibway steersman.
Olmec sat motionless, a gray pallor growing under his swarthy skin.
The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.
He was very fat, with a shaven, swarthy face and the dewlap of an ox.
The other swarthy plotter had entered, and was standing behind the count's chair.
Peering anxiously at him was the broad, swarthy face of Uncle Ingemar.
The corpulent and swarthy Hicks stood dejectedly before her.
If she is embonpoint, let her be called flabby, if she is swarthy, black.
The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips seemed to be twisted with disdain.
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None of these swarthy types has been seen in good old Blighty since '66 but it is amusing to observe their strange ways.
He was a big, swarthy Netherlander, with black moustaches and a bold glance.
This swarthy woman and her sloe-eyed husband favorably impressed Carley.
He was thick and swarthy, with jet-black eyes and a long-pointed chin.
He was smiling into her eyes, his swarthy face close to her own.
They were small in stature, swarthy in features, and long-headed.
The swarthy little gentleman uncrossed his legs, beat an impatient tattoo with the toe of his boot and consulted a heavy gold watch.
Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian.
The swarthy evil face was crowned with a cap of unplucked muskrat fur.
It opened, and the swarthy face of the Aleut chief peered in.
He was a medium-sized man, roughly clad, brown-eyed, and swarthy with sunburn.
The door was opened by a swarthy foreign-looking maid, with a prominent bosom under a gay neckerchief, whom he vaguely fancied to be Sicilian.
Herkimer's tanned and swarthy face changed color at this taunt.
Many an ugly scowl was cast upon the tall European by swarthy, dark-eyed sons of the desert, but neither smiles nor scowls produced any outwardly visible effect upon him.
For when Zarathustra scrutinised him with his glance he was frightened as by a sudden apparition, so slender, swarthy, hollow and worn-out did this follower appear.
Her officers were swarthy bullies, hating and hated by their crew.
Stokers emerged from low underground doorways into factory yards, and sat on steps, and posts, and palings, wiping their swarthy visages, and contemplating coals.
Her hair was as grey as her companion's, her face as bloodless and shrivelled, but amber-tinted, with swarthy shadows sharpening the nose and hollowing the temples.
Without the cottage a swarthy figure skulked beneath one of the windows, listening to such fragments of the conversation within as came to his attentive ears.
Duncan's eyes followed the movement, and he perceived that the animal just mentioned was beautifully, though faintly, worked in blue tint, on the swarthy breast of the chief.
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On a summer's night, windows are thrown open, and groups of swarthy moustached men are seen by the passer-by, lounging at the casements, and smoking fearfully.
