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Meanings of swart in English

Naturally having skin of a dark color.

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Usage of swart in English
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Demetrios reflected for a while, rather sadly; then his swart face cleared.
Domnei: A Comedy of Woman-Worship
2
The swart man was the proprietor of a moving-picture-theater in Market Street.
The maltese falcon
3
The black jades of swart night trot foggy rings 'Bout heaven's brow.
David Elginbrod
4
The priest was a thin, swart, intense young man with a bang.
Main Street
5
His swart face reddened, and the fine lines of his handsome mouth hardened.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
6
And so they came to the swart arboreal precipice of the unpassable forest.
The Book of Wonder
7
A swart greasy man in notable clothes was waiting in the outer room.
The maltese falcon
8
Joe Paradise, the swart aging man with the big mustache, grunted, How do.
Babbitt
9
His companion was swart and bandy-legged, with rat-eyes and a much-broken hooked nose.
The best early stories of f. scott fitzgerald
10
Now crows the cock with feathers swart; The gates of heaven fly wide apart.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
11
The dwarfish Obelisk, like a pointed tombstone, lay swart and square in its center.
The Mantooth
12
His blade, piercing the swart curtain, met with no resistance.
Sir Mortimer: A Novel
13
Something approaching almost to a smile crossed the hunter's swart visage at this reply.
The Hot Swamp
14
And she, the swart Egyptian-shecursed me by her gods.
She
15
A spasm of pain, like a ripple over water, crossed the knight's swart face.
The Tavern Knight
16
And swart Work sullen sits in the hillside fern
Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
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Swart across language varieties
United Kingdom
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