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Example sentences for "swarthy"

Lexicographically close words:
swarmed; swarmes; swarming; swarms; swart; swarved; swash; swashbuckler; swashbucklers; swashbuckling
  1. By Santiago, do I not know that your royal brother, the King of Navarre, was lately brought to his knees by this same swarthy Almanzor, whom the devil blast!

  2. A look of mingled triumph and love lights up Kerim’s swarthy face and brings out the whiteness of his eyes into a revolting prominence.

  3. Peace to you, reverend and war-worn knight, And you, fair youth, upon whose swarthy lip Blooms the rich promise of a noble manhood.

  4. No one could have been more courteous than the dark-eyed, smooth, swarthy man at his side, nor more open and free in his way of speaking about the huge image and the attendant idols upon which they looked down.

  5. In those days the plain of the Egyptian delta was crowded with gangs of swarthy workmen unloading the stone that had come down the Nile to add a fresh course to the current pyramid.

  6. She then ran her hand around and over his swarthy skin; she felt it growing warm.

  7. The swarthy beauty, with an innocent smile, as she hung her head on one side, said, "My husband give it me after we get married.

  8. In a few minutes she breathed quickly, and appeared to grasp her swarthy companion more tightly.

  9. He firmly held Margaret Godfrey's hand all the time he was repeating the event at the Fort, and her small white hand was frequently wet with tears as they rolled off the swarthy face of the Indian.

  10. A wild, picturesque group they made, as the moonlight streamed white and clear into their swarthy faces, and glittered upon the metallic ornaments about their persons and the polished blades of their long spears.

  11. A responsive smile instantly appeared upon each of the nine swarthy faces, whose simultaneous concurrence in the expression of every emotion suggested the idea of some huge monster with nine heads and but one consciousness.

  12. The gleam of perfect teeth accentuated the swarthy olive of his face and the crisp jet of his hair.

  13. Thus encouraged, the Bedouin's grin broadened until it radiated good-humor across the swarthy visage from cheek-bone to cheek-bone.

  14. As they tailed, a half-dozen natives, swarthy and villainous of face, drifted into the shop to be promptly ordered out by the proprietor, who used for that purpose a vocabulary of scope and vividness.

  15. The Indian had long been drooping with his years, and perhaps under the calamities of his race, but this invigorating and exciting sport caused a gleam of sunshine to cross his swarthy face that had long been absent from his features.

  16. A red spot burned on either swarthy cheek, and her aching heart beat fast.

  17. The swarthy face of the stranger wore a comprehending grin.

  18. Father Roubeau had been directed to leave the Upper Country and return to his swarthy children at Minook.

  19. It is not given the world to know what promises he made and what lies he told--the Sisters never gossip; but when he returned, upon his swarthy chest there was a brass crucifix, and in his canoe his niece Madeline.

  20. Linnell glanced aside, and saw that the swarthy fisherman who had been shrimping was not a couple of yards behind him.

  21. Not that the boy had any particular affection for the swarthy Alvarez; but naturally, with his warm, forgiving temperament, he hated the idea of leaving a fellow being behind without hope of succor.

  22. Their coming was viewed by a dozen swarthy faces thrust out of the schoolhouse windows.

  23. Ambrose clenched his brawny hand, his eyes darkened, his swarthy face flushed duskily.

  24. A very brave act, indeed, on the part of this young man," replied the swarthy M.

  25. Through the reserves round about for many miles swarthy heralds proclaimed that the great Chief Big Bear was giving a White Dog feast to his braves before summoning them to the war-path.

  26. These, too, give the chief light in the rooms, which streams downwards, and thickens and mingles with the smoke, and so murkily lights up hundreds of swarthy figures busy about the spits and the cauldrons.

  27. You could fancy them issuing out of the narrow little portal, and so greeted by the swarms of swarthy clamorous women and merchants and children.

  28. We went to see the Persian merchants at their khan, and purchased some silks there from a swarthy black-bearded man, with a conical cap of lambswool.

  29. Wild swarthy Arabs, who had come in with the caravans, walked solemnly about, very different in look and demeanour from the sleek inhabitants of the town.

  30. Heyward paused, for he knew not how to construe the remarkable expression that gleamed across the swarthy features of the attentive Indian.

  31. 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.

  32. Insensibly the young man drew nigher to the swarthy lines of the Hurons, and scarcely breathed, so intense became his interest in the spectacle.

  33. These were soon joined by others, until a long line of swarthy figures was to be seen clinging to the cover with the obstinacy of desperation.

  34. The general of the enemy received the youthful messenger, surrounded by his principal officers, and by a swarthy band of the native chiefs, who had followed him to the field, with the warriors of their several tribes.

  35. As he gazed upon the silent blockhouse, the moon fell upon his swarthy countenance, and betrayed its surprise and curiosity.

  36. The colors of the war-paint had blended in dark confusion about his fierce countenance, and rendered his swarthy lineaments still more savage and repulsive than if art had attempted an effect which had been thus produced by chance.

  37. He changed the bitter tone of affected pleasantry into an attempt to laugh, then drew his swarthy hand across his swarthy eyes, and said in a more natural accent, 'Poor Jess!

  38. The hall was crowded with fierce, swarthy men.

  39. Two swarthy Italian faces presented themselves at the threshold.

  40. Hastily, but not carelessly, induing himself in these articles of disguise, he then proceeded to stain his fair cheeks with a preparation which soon gave them a swarthy hue.

  41. Remember the orders," said Tyler, as he emerged into the clearing, turning to a swarthy native beside him, whose features bore an unmistakable resemblance to those possessed by John Marshall.

  42. Suddenly, as he turned to the collection of huts behind him, his eye fell upon the figure of a swarthy Dyak, with sandalled feet, who was advancing towards him, and taking him for one of his own men he called eagerly to him.

  43. Vinnie remembered the swarthy face, bushy beard, and hooked nose; and yet she could hardly believe that this was the same man who once showed her such ruffianly manners on the wharf in Chicago.

  44. His face looked swarthy and deep-lined in its light.

  45. It was the name of the fellow with the swarthy countenance.

  46. Donna Ignazia had not to be entreated long before she took off her kerchief, but the poor cousin did not like having to shew us her bones and swarthy skin.

  47. Side by side we see the corpulent Brazilian planter, the swarthy Portuguese trader, the merry Negro porter, and the apathetic Indian boatman.

  48. Their swarthy complexions were tinged on the cheeks and forehead with a bright sanguine hue.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "swarthy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    black; dark; darkish; dusk; dusky; funereal; grave; sad; sober; somber; swarthy