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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montezuma's Daughter] Reference

The guardsman's face paled beneath its swarthiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Victorious]

Her hands looked pale and delicate against the swarthiness of his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once An Angel]

The swarthiness of his complexion showed that his face had long been acquainted with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hero of Our Time] Reference

His face was dark almost to swarthiness and his cheeks and chin were smoothly shaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891] Reference

The plump man's face paled beneath its swarthiness, and he quickly hid his beringed hands behind him as he bowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Magnificent]

Now he was a very old man with exceeding swarthiness, and he had little children, who were white, of a white dashed with red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

His eyes had receded into their sockets; his lips were stretched over his teeth; and the swarthiness of his skin had become sulphurous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

"That accounts for the swarthiness of his skin.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thrall of Leif the Lucky] Reference

Page view page image: gleamings of his native swarthiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prairie] Reference

His body seemed leaner, because of the swarthiness of the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mexican] Reference

This was that Talbot, commonly known from his swarthiness as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

A smile split whitely the swarthiness of Tomaso's brother's face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skyrider] Reference

In the one case the swarthiness would be inheritable, in the other not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Eugenics] Reference

The captain spoke with a foreign accent, and his complexion was dark to swarthiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference

This was a clear swarthiness a translucent swarthiness clear as the most delicate white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

Large sections of shadow and insanely bushy eyebrows add a swarthiness that doesn't help at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

His complexion had lost its former swarthiness, but the yellowish gleam of Numidian marble remained on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

He had a rich complexion, which verged on swarthiness, a flashing black eye, and dark, bushy brows and hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

There is something decorative even about the insistence on the swarthiness of Othello, or the deformity of Richard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens] Reference

Berenice was dark, with coloring which inclined to swarthiness; her brow was low, and her eyes small and deeply set.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life] Reference

It added a picturesque swarthiness to his appearance, and made him look more like what he felt to be the popular ideal of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion] Reference

He had delicate features, redeemed from effeminacy by the swarthiness of his complexion, and his quick intensity of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [North and South] Reference

Except for his swarthiness Hamed is unreconcilable to the ideals of an Arab, and he has a most heretical dislike to the desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Tropic Isle] Reference

The sharp sweet bloom of her beauty, fresh in swarthiness, under the whipping Easter, cried out against that loathed inhumanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

And its colour was cunningly chosen to change her colour from mere swarthiness to something brown that holds the light like amber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

The combination of swarthiness with stature above the average and a long skull, confer upon me the serene impartiality of a mongrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

Still all were distinguished by a certain sodden swarthiness of complexion, a filmy dimness of eye, and pallor and compression of lip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5] Reference

A man young, smooth-faced, dark almost to swarthiness, sat on a bench beside a table on which stood the uncleared litter of breakfast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hidden Places] Reference

"The theory that swarthiness produced by sun-burning need not be disfiguring to a woman" is, Margoliouth holds, taken by Theocritus from.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Delight and Other Papers] Reference

His complexion was sunburnt, almost to oriental swarthiness, and the raven's plume had no darker gloss than that of his long hair, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance] Reference

And his malignant oily swarthiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avon’s Harvest. VIII. Avon’s Harvest, Etc] Reference

There was a twisting in the swarthiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avon’s Harvest. VIII. Avon’s Harvest, Etc] Reference

Or swarthiness?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Feel the Kausmentum] Reference