| 单词 | swarthiness |
| 例句 | When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z A few hours later, I lay next to him, noticing the swarthiness of his arms against my pale skin. How I Fell for an ‘I’m the Man’ Man 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z His white robes contrasted strangely with the swarthiness of his countenance. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z At the same time, there might be many individuals in whom the constitutional tendency in the direction of swarthiness was too weak and incipient to be of use. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z In singular contrast to a complexion dark almost to swarthiness, his eyes were large and of an intense steel-blue. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z He was of medium height, erect, dark to swarthiness, with finely chiseled features and keen, black eyes, with manners the most courtly, and a voice unusually musical and haunting. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z Even for one owning Spanish blood, her complexion was dark almost to swarthiness, while her upper lip was not without a suspicion of what is irreverently termed a moustache. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z His attention returned again and again to that genial swarthiness. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Her face, in marked contradiction to her Parisian costume and refined manners, had a slight copper swarthiness about it. The Social Gangster Tony and the other hunter, whose name was Blacking, a sobriquet gained from the extreme swarthiness of his skin, scouted ahead, and presently held up their hands to those following them to advance quietly. The Young Colonists A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars He was young, powerfully built, wore a large mustache, and had a complexion of unusual swarthiness. Hand and Ring Berenice was dark, with coloring which inclined to swarthiness; her brow was low, and her eyes small and deeply set. Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life His eyes had receded into their sockets; his lips were stretched over his teeth; and the swarthiness of his skin had become sulphurous. Sacrifice He went clad in spotless white, which oddly accentuated his bulk and made his swarthiness darker by contrast. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness, while the clear blue of the eyes produced a feeling of shock on the beholder. A Son Of The Sun In the one case the swarthiness would be inheritable, in the other not. Applied Eugenics From the cheek-bones up he looked like an Indian, and expressed a stolid power and swarthiness. The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times Your knowledge of the East, your acquaintance with Yiddish, and Syrian and Hebrew, the very swarthiness of your skin, and blackness of your hair, dear boy, may all serve you in good stead. The Mark of the Beast A man young, smooth-faced, dark almost to swarthiness, sat on a bench beside a table on which stood the uncleared litter of breakfast. The Hidden Places Blackbeard was a large man, wide and heavy, and the first impression conveyed by his personality was that of hair and swarthiness. Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter His face was dark almost to swarthiness and his cheeks and chin were smoothly shaven. Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 In countenance, he was dark,—browner than most Egyptians, but with that peculiar ruddy swarthiness that is never the negro hue. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt And its colour was cunningly chosen to change her colour from mere swarthiness to something brown that holds the light like amber. The Judge The thick tan of exposure to wind and sun gave her a gipsy swarthiness beneath which glowed the rich colour of health. Jaffery The governor replied: No doubt much of the Christian character of the day lacks in swarthiness and power. Around The Tea-Table Instead of the customary greased swarthiness of the race, her skin was clear and of a light-bronze tone, and her features less harsh, more felicitously curved, than those common to the blood. A Daughter of the Snows He was good-looking, but not in an English way, and the swarthiness of his complexion and a slight kink in his dark hair seemed to hint a trace of coloured blood. The Jungle Girl The swarthiness of his complexion showed that his face had long been acquainted with Transcaucasian suns, and the premature greyness of his moustache was out of keeping with his firm gait and robust appearance. A Hero of Our Time He had a rich complexion, which verged on swarthiness, a flashing black eye, and dark, bushy brows and hair. The Mayor of Casterbridge The traits that first strike a stranger in a Portuguese belle, are the tendency to embonpoint in the figure, and to darkness—I had almost said swarthiness, in complexion. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 A few streaks of branching red mingled with a swarthiness of complexion, that was rendered more conspicuous by the outline of unsullied white, which nearly surrounded his prominent features. The Pilot Except for his swarthiness Hamed is unreconcilable to the ideals of an Arab, and he has a most heretical dislike to the desert. My Tropic Isle It added a picturesque swarthiness to his appearance, and made him look more like what he felt to be the popular ideal of a Russian general. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion On Lesbia's right hand there was a portly personage of Jewish type, dark to swarthiness, and somewhat oily, whose every word suggested bullion. Phantom Fortune, a Novel The man leaned forward showing in the doorway a handsome face, dark almost to swarthiness. The Hunt Ball Mystery This was a clear swarthiness a translucent swarthiness clear as the most delicate white. The Open Air Heat, and the dust of the straw, the violent labour had darkened his face from brown almost to blackness—a more than swarthiness, a blackness. The Life of the Fields Her face, in marked contradiction to her Parisian costume and refined manners, had a slight copper swarthiness about it which spoke eloquently of her ancestry. Gold of the Gods Truly enough he had a most villainous countenance, what with his native swarthiness and his broken and dented nose, so horridly embellished with a gash of red paint. The Hidden Children "Tall and very dark, almost to swarthiness; of course I remember the man." The Hunt Ball Mystery "He is a friend of Sigurd Haraldsson."—"He is a Norman."—"That accounts for the swarthiness of his skin."—"Is it in the Norman tongue that they are speaking?" The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days He had delicate features, redeemed from effeminacy by the swarthiness of his complexion, and his quick intensity of expression. North and South Now he was a very old man with exceeding swarthiness, and he had little children, who were white, of a white dashed with red. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 His hawk-nosed face ending in a black forked beard was of a swarthiness accentuated to exaggeration by the snowy white turban wound about his brow. The Sea-Hawk His complexion had lost its former swarthiness, but the yellowish gleam of Numidian marble remained on it. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero He was a lean, active man, very richly dressed, and with a face that by its swarthiness of skin and the sable hue of beard and hair looked almost black. Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Still all were distinguished by a certain sodden swarthiness of complexion, a filmy dimness of eye, and pallor and compression of lip. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Let me pause to observe that the complexion of this man is dark and swarthy; it was no common swarthiness which constituted the sole point of remembrance, both as regards Valence and Madame Deluc. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 The captain spoke with a foreign accent, and his complexion was dark to swarthiness. The House of the Wolf; a romance This was that Talbot, commonly known from his swarthiness as the Crow, who was Ormonde's most trusted lieutenant. The Path of the King My mother used to call me her little Spaniard, because of my swarthiness, that is when my father was not near, for such names angered him. Montezuma's Daughter His body seemed leaner, because of the swarthiness of the skin. The Night-Born |
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