Adjective : a light-complexioned person. From Dictionary.com.
They are dark-complexioned, and have large hands and feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
He was a sallow-complexioned man, with thin, clean-shaven lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Arthur Gerrol, the third man, was almost as light-complexioned as. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Dark complexioned people are, at present, your better allies and friends. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
Among the junior scholars sat a dark-complexioned boy with very white teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War] Reference
A small fair-haired fair-complexioned boy, two seats above Elizabeth, flushed. From Wordnik.com. [An Australian Lassie] Reference
A wiry, dark-complexioned lad of perhaps fifteen stood near the steamboat slip. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He is about thirty years of age, tall, quite light-complexioned, and good-looking. From Wordnik.com. [Harriet, the Moses of Her People] Reference
The man was a well-set-up, ruddy complexioned individual somewhat beyond middle age. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
He was more than interested in two dark-complexioned men who regarded him curiously. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
(The Sieur de Caille had brown hair and a reddish beard, and was pale complexioned.). From Wordnik.com. [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference
He was a dark-complexioned man of average height, somewhat spare in form and features. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Story of an Old Rebel] Reference
Usually fleshy girls flow more than thin ones and dark complexioned ones than light ones. From Wordnik.com. [Herself Talks with Women Concerning Themselves] Reference
My father is dark-complexioned with prominent African-American features and a head of woolly hair. From Wordnik.com. [Freedom From Choice] Reference
A dark-complexioned, foreign-looking man had approached him, and had said something in a low voice. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Strong on the Trapeze or The Daring Feats of a Young Circus Performer] Reference
Caroline was a stout, light-complexioned, healthy-looking young woman of twenty-three years of age. From Wordnik.com. [The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.] Reference
These indicate that the family was dark complexioned, which would also accord with a pre-Celtic origin. From Wordnik.com. [The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints] Reference
She was a pretty child, a true daughter of the Saxon race, fair-haired, blue-eyed, and sunny-complexioned. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Then two of the men -- one was the slender and dark-complexioned fellow -- went into the town sight-seeing. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference
"What do you want it to do, Grace?" asked a vivacious, dark-complexioned sprite next to the complaining one. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand] Reference
If thou meetest that fair-complexioned one in secret and if she solicit thee for children, accept her as thy wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The young man is extremely handsome -- very brown-complexioned and with piercing eyes, of a good height and person. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Fresh complexioned, firm-limbed, six feet by the standard, this fighting man has verily been got up, and can fight. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
He was light-complexioned, nearly six feet in height, and proportioned like an athlete; bright, smart, and intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference
He was an ordinary country doctor, about thirty in years, had sandy hair, was sandy complexioned, and wore sandy clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
"I tell you," said Fred sharply, turning upon the dark-complexioned man, "we don't want any of your rugs or table cloths.". From Wordnik.com. [Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat] Reference
But here in southern Italy, where most ordinary people were dark complexioned, his appearance might draw unwanted attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
He was of Swedish parentage, very light-complexioned, very large, and a splendid mechanic, as Swedes are apt to be when they try. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
He is a Piedmontese, blue-eyed and fair-complexioned, with chestnut hair, the abundant locks of which are just touched with gray. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
He turned, and saw close at hand a short, stockily built, swarthy-complexioned man of middle age, who came swinging forward at a lope. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
His wife was engaged in washing a baby -- the seventh -- and Beile, an ill-favored, sallow-complexioned girl, sat at the window sewing. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
I shall expect you to wed with this stout, dark complexioned man, whose wife lies in the little grave that was in the second toss of the cup. From Wordnik.com. [Cupology How to Be Entertaining] Reference
In it, a dark-complexioned woman was smiling, not the artificial smile of an anorexic model, but a real smile that ended in fine, beautiful wrinkles. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-One] Reference
And they made it possible for a light complexioned, blue-eyed, blond-haired man like Clarence King, to claim African ancestry when he actually had none at all. From Wordnik.com. [American Lives: The 'Strange' Tale Of Clarence King] Reference
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