I even got mildly sunburnt which is very nice since I'm not white as paper no longer. From Wordnik.com. [thewhat Diary Entry] Reference
The ruling tribes are called Hamites -- the "sunburnt" family according to Dr. Winchell; of Negritic origin, says Canon Rawlinson. From Wordnik.com. ["The Negro's Place in History"] Reference
The Cushites and Ethiopians, early branches of the Atlantean stock, took their name from their "sunburnt" complexion; they were red men. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
The great and humorous gods have arranged for this also; and have seen to it that no brave, generous, amorous "sunburnt" emotion shall ever be hurt by such associations!. From Wordnik.com. [Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions] Reference
I even saw a tear coursing down his sunburnt cheek. From Wordnik.com. [A Queen's Error] Reference
A cheery cove an 'sunburnt, bold o' eye and wrinkled up. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of To-Day: an Anthology] Reference
Two stalwart and sunburnt young Englishmen, a beautiful fair-haired. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
Down by the brookside the Sallow drooped her sunburnt leaves despondently. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Christoforo went to sea -- a red-haired, sunburnt boy with bright blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
And I, this sunburnt, carefree person, pretend to have been as a worker among workers. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
The sunburnt face of Captain Brayne bent over me, and there were tears in his honest eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The colour came and went from De Ganache's sunburnt face as, stammering his thanks, he mounted. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Little bruised feet, sunburnt face and hands, with straggling blond curls, usurp such function. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
The Cubs curled up, and the candle-light fell in a golden flicker on their ruddy, sunburnt faces. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Saints by Candle-Light] Reference
Few people could have remained looking into that sunburnt countenance and still have felt annoyed. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from English History] Reference
The sleeves of his outing shirt were rolled up above his elbows, revealing his bony, sunburnt arms. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Archie B. replied by carefully thrusting a brown sunburnt arm into the hole and bringing out a nest. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
His pants have been cut into grey shorts with little navy stripes running up the sides and he's sunburnt. From Wordnik.com. [Wounded Animal Songbook] Reference
But everywhere she looked there was the laughing face of the factor with his sunburnt hair and his blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
He picked up his bag of samples and she saw that his hands had become hard and sunburnt from the plow handles. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
Fine white hands are very pretty when they belong to a lady; but sunburnt, muscular ones are beautiful in the vineyard. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
When you were called in at last you sat under the electric light and pulled off your sunburnt skin in frills and strips. From Wordnik.com. [Hilary Mantel Comma] Reference
And they limped ashore weary and worn, with long, ragged beards and sunburnt cheeks and garments torn and weather-stained. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
They passed with a smile compelled upon their sunburnt faces, to see her so sweet, so beautiful, so sensible to their glory. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
His blue eyes are just as merry, and his frank, fearless face as sunburnt, as when we first made his acquaintance on the pier. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough] Reference
He was a bright, happy-looking little fellow, about eight years of age, with light, waving hair, merry blue eyes, and sunburnt face. From Wordnik.com. [Charlie Scott or, There's Time Enough] Reference
She wiped her crimsoned cheeks upon the corner of the sheet, stood up and put her sunburnt sailor-hat upon the carefully curled hair. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Stepping in front of a toilet mirror, he applied a stain to his face, giving it the color of that of a sunburnt tiller of the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Her sunburnt arms disappeared far above her elbow, and judging by the way the meal stuck to her she found bread-making very hard work. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Then, without a sign of shame, Eleanor passes a handful of money to the sunburnt fellow, casting a smile of ineffable sweetness upon him. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
The paludier is tall in stature; their women remarkable for their fair complexions, which contrast strongly with their sunburnt neighbours. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
I turn back to the door and see that everyone's gone: The girls on roller skates, the terrier in the plastic glasses, the sunburnt mailman. From Wordnik.com. [Wounded Animal Songbook] Reference
E---- has concocted for herself a thin blue-and-white shirt, and as she generally lives with her sleeves tucked up, her arms are getting quite brown and sunburnt. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
I trail behind her as she weaves through a sunburnt jungle of towels and chairs, finally stopping next to a pair of mismatched folding chairs and a black umbrella. From Wordnik.com. [The Stay Apparatus] Reference
I saw, on looking round me, streaming drops trickling over the sunburnt faces of many of the men, whose iron natures it was not easy to disturb under ordinary circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Having lots of pigmented naevi (the medical term for moles) does not raise your risk ofmelanoma, but, sadly, you have increased the risk by allowing yourself to get sunburnt. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor, doctor: Popping pills, plus moles and melanoma] Reference
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