How To Use Swart In A Sentence
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Perrault's ‘Bluebeard’ is the story of a rich, middle-aged gentleman, named for his swarthy chin and saturnine manner, who marries a young woman.
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And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste.
CORONATION DAY
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Greeks were everywhere -- swarthy men in sea-boots and tam-o'-shanters, hatless women in bright colors, hordes of sturdy children, and all speaking in outlandish voices, crying shrilly and vivaciously with the volubility of the Mediterranean.
CHAPTER XI
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Stock villains tend to be swarthy, towel-headed terrorists or slit-eyed, buck-toothed guerrillas.
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A number of swarthy men in bizarre dark glasses had taken over the fishing activity.
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He was swarthy and well-built, with dark hair and a moustache.
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Wait I pose that question to the members of NOW. swarty wrote on January 30, 2008 9: 12 PM:
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Why did he invoke the swarthy boogeymen of the modern right-wing imagination right before launching into a verse about the good old days when his "grandpappy" would "take all the rope in Texas ... find a tall oak tree," and "hang them high in the street, for all the people to see?
Max Blumenthal: Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation
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“Hear, King Moloch!” called Hasdrubal, lifting his swarthy arms to heaven, then striking them with his sword till the blood gushed down, “suffer us to escape this calamity and I vow thee even my daughter Tibaït, — a child in her tenth year, — she shall die in thy holy furnace a sacrifice.”
A Victor of Salamis
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Ricky's grin of recognition revealed a healthy complement of gleaming white dentition, all the more albescent in contrast to his swarthy visage.
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As we've been telling you for the past several hours, more than 20 states play on the Tuesday primary, huge swarth for them to compete in.
CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2008
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Awnings shade raucous vegetable sellers while swarthy men with wooden carts hawk pomegranates, dates and mangoes.
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These Fields are all sown in Ridges; and the Furrough between each Couple of Ridges, is as plainly to be seen, as if a swarth had been mown along.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 25 - 27 May 1777
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This wildness, however, is different from that of the Highlands; for here the mountains, instead of heath, are covered with a fine green swarth, affording pasture to innumerable flocks of sheep.
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Joe is squatter and swarthier: his eyebrows beetle; his black pupils glitter.
THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
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Everything good in nature and the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astringency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity ’.
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Now, I will photograph the tree in its demise, upended in swart disarray.
The Tree is Farther to the Man
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Tyler Sudley would break out, addressing the teacher, all unmindful of scholastic etiquette, a flush of pleasure rising to his swarthy cheek as he thrust back his wide black hat on his long dark hair and turned his candid gray eyes, all aglow, upon the cadaverous, ascetic preceptor, "ain't Lee-yander a-gittin 'on powerful, _powerful_ fas' with his book?
The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
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Depending on the waters mood you might have a calm dark sea or a swarthy raging waves in the middle of a storm and it looks so realistic.
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Out of it would come one Sally, sister of its swarthy tenant, swarthy herself, shady-lipped, sad-voiced, and, bending over her flower-bed, would gather a "posy," as she called it, for the little boy.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19
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To make them, the fatty segment of brisket called the deckle is thrown back into the smoker for extra rendering, then served as a pile of crunchy, unctuous hunks, crusted in a swarthy, earthy rub that includes brown sugar, paprika and Greek coffee.
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One only need to walk down King William Street to see mobs of swarthy young men in expensive leather jackets using the very latest mobile phones.
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On the Swarthmore side of the field, there were more kids suited up than there were fans in the bleachers.
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Then the referee dismissed a Sports player for foul language and it fired up the visitors who scored twice, and in the end it was Swarthmoor who had to hang on to save a point.
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He had a broad swarthy face.
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| Reply | Permalink couldn't agree more, swarty ... some ill-advised stuff, for sure. they're back on topic now, thanks to edwards, who's playing quite the peace-maker role tonight ...
The Dem Debate In South Carolina Is Underway...
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Once again, as in the case of a woman found guilty by a bank teller of depositing a small cheque, the swarthy are at special risk.
There ain't no-flys on me
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Camera Three dollied in for a close-up of the swarthy stranger.
Prayers To Broken Stones
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Indeed, the swart broad-beamed woman who stood, arms akimbo, in the doorway would have daunted the most courageous visitor.
IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
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The scrawny swarthy-skinned kid in the mirror blinked back at him.
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We can call the swarthy man in the commercial Walid Ibn Horton.
~ Angry Bear
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The one who called himself Nathaniel was swarthy and handsome with dark, intense eyes and a spill of brunet hair over a pair of broad shoulders.
Surrender the Dark
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Many may believe that once we have them, policemen will stop swarthy characters on street corners and promptly deport those who have no right to remain.
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That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations - the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn.
Chapter 20
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“So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz’s money,” George interposed.
Vanity Fair
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Right loath was the swart barbarian to let me have them, but hunger, hunger is a great tamer of your savage; and the steam of good Furbo’s cook-shop yonder was suggestive of savory chops and greasy sausages — and — and — in short, Aurelius, I got them at
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Jees Uck was of a swart-skinned breed, it is true, but she was not an Indian; nor was she an Eskimo; nor even an Innuit.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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There were grave Spaniards in long cloaks and feathered beavers; jolly merchants and artisans in short linen jackets, each with his tabatiere, the wives with bits of finery, the children laughing and shouting and dodging in and out between fathers and mothers beaming with quiet pride and contentment; swarthy boat-men with their worsted belts, gaudy negresses chanting in the soft patois, and here and there a blanketed Indian.
The Crossing
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The swarthy Australian bustled into the box and lashed the ball urgently past Roy, the last, florid statement in what had become a hollow argument.
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He turns stereotypically feminine qualities like compassion and forgiveness into swarthy, macho rebel stances - this is one big, badass Jesus.
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Care not, whether a white, whether a swarth-skin, is he.
Poems and Fragments
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The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow.
TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL
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And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
Think Progress » Buchanan: Americans Should Consider Allowing Only White Immigrants
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Eric Eisenbud: Svelte, swarthy, epicurian and 50 megaton-magnitude fresser.
February « 2010 « Off The Broiler
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Rental cars charlotte awhile for the swarthiness the apprehension of any azalea he has apraxic in a unmalleability or negligence anapsid, we are rectilineal at, bitingly, an nutrient huckster.
Rational Review
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Bothanairidh, and in the evenings the young lassies would be making great laughing while the cailleachs span; and once, long long ago, when the crotal was young on the rocks on the moors, there came a swarthy lad and said fareweel tae his lass under this tree.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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The investigators found that men typically want women's faces to have feminine shape and feminine reflectance (such as plump lips and wide eyes), while women typically want men's faces to have masculine reflectance (such as swarthier skin) but a feminine shape.
What makes a face appealing to the opposite sex?
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My favorite here was the Redcat Amber,(Sentence dictionary) which struck a nice balance between the pale and the swarthy.
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The Infidels passed that night in joy and jubilee and wine bibbing; and, as soon as it was dawn, the two armies drew out with the swart of spear and the blanch of blade.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A meaningless string of inane talking points with no coherent ideas behind them. swarty wrote on January 30, 2008 8: 55 PM:
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The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw hat, and moccasins of raw-hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains.
Black Rebellion Five Slave Revolts
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I don't know, swarthy Latin flowers swanning over here, stealing our innocent British flowers and ‘interfering with their genetic integrity’.
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A lean , swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently.
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The story states rep murphy has not read the SENATE bill??? the senate bill??? has the congress person read the house BILL???? the story states mont county congress person swartz does not what congress next moves are????
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Victims have described the cowboy car impounders as ‘swarthy and threatening’.
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Woods and thickets ran up the sides of the mountains, and disappeared among the sinuosities formed by the winding ravines which separated them from each other; but far above these specimens of a tolerable natural soil arose the swart and bare mountains themselves, in the dark grey desolation proper to the season.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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Bill is quite swarthy, and generally has a few days growth of designer stubble on his face.
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Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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The man sat all twisted and huddled in his chair in a way which gave an inde - scribable impression of deformity; but the face which he turned towards us, though worn and swarthy, must at some time have been remarkable for its beauty.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
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Tens of thousands of people now live and work in Docklands, rather more yuppie financial types than the swarthy dockers of old.
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And the naval vessels Jarrett, Fife, and an explosive ordnance detachment, swarth (ph) vessel, also participated in the event, evening and morning.
CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2000
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Demand Progress also quoted James Jacobs, the Government Documents Librarian at Stanford University, who said that the arrest "undermines academic inquiry and democratic principles." complaint, Swartz purchased a laptop in September 2010 and registered it under the name "Gary Host" username: "ghost" on the MIT network.
Ars Technica
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On a side note, I can't help but notice over the past decade how some of our most "righteous" leadership (religion and politics) has been caught in some of the most abberrant types of illicit behavior ..... looks like "weiner" covers a wide swarth.
Is The SCOTUS Picking Another President?
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In any event, the good of the country dictates that the political dynasties should be avoided at all costs -- from which ever party they arise from. swarty wrote on January 30, 2008 10: 59 PM:
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| Reply | Permalink swarty -- right on regarding Elizabeth Edwards. zonk -- you are crazy funny as usual
Rasmussen: Post-Kennedy Endorsement, Obama Only Down By Six In Massachusetts
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Clean-limbed, smooth-skinned, slender, and supple, his Indian blood showing chiefly in a slight swarth of complexion and aquilinity of feature, he now approached his twentieth year and began to gain the strength of his manhood and to give promise of more than the average stature and physical power.
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska
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[This verse, or something similar, occurs in a long ballad, or poem, on Flodden Field, reprinted by the late Henry Weber.] "Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks.
Kenilworth
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The term "ligne claire" is believed to have been coined by the Dutch artist and designer Joost Swarte in 1977.
Week in Words
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Four marines emerged on deck with a swarthy looking, squint-eyed pirate, his arms and legs in irons.
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The people are thus far nearly white in the colour of their skin, but in the more southerly of the three regions above defined, with a mixture of brown, or of the complexion of brunettes, or such as we term swarthy or sallow persons.
History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
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A lithe, active Swartzman "arranges" a passive Kinoshita into various postures on the floor in a duet comprised of interlacing lifts, turns and caresses, with something both tender and coldly puppetlike about them.
The Seattle Times
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Bob Loder was a swarthy, heavily built, square-faced man with a blotched skin and unhealthy pallor and small, discouraged eyes.
She Closed Her Eyes
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The chasseur was a tall, meagre, swarthy Spaniard or mulatto, lightly clad in cotton shirt and drawers, with broad straw-hat and moccasins of raw hide; his belt sustaining his long, straight, flat sword or _machete_, like an iron bar sharpened at one end; and he wore by the same belt three cotton leashes for his three dogs, sometimes held also by chains.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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Of our tame boars we make brawn, which is a kind of meat not usually known to strangers (as I take it), otherwise would not the swart Rutters and French cooks, at the loss of Calais (where they found great store of this provision almost in every house), have attempted with ridiculous success to roast, bake, broil, and fry the same for their masters, till they were better informed.
Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1
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His swarthy good looks - and rising income - were considered a hot ticket by any number of beautiful young women.
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But I couldn't help but wonder, if that's how an innocuous honky is treated, what's happening to the swarthy bearded types?
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But the swarthy Greek waiter with the snake hips and the cheesy chat-up lines has suddenly turned into the man of your dreams.
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How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.
CHAPTER 19
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a smile on his swarthy face
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Ich þe ondswerie. ha lihteð hwer se ha eau {er} kimeð wið a þusent deoflen. ⁊ euch an bereð a gret boc al of sunnen iwriten wið swarte smeale {70} leattres. ⁊ an unrude raketehe gled {} read of fure. forte binden ⁊ to drahen in to in {} warde helle. hwuch se he mei preoouin þurh his boc þ̵ is on euch sunne enbre [f.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
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One thing I will never do," said Oliver Cromwell, law-clerk, swart and lusty, in green stockings and other sartor-resartus trifles; "one thing I will never do -- and that is, take human life!
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
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The fauna in the Swartberg and Cederberg protected areas reflects their location close to the fynbos-Karoo interface with species such as grysbok Raphicerus melanotis, grey rhebuck Pelea capreolus and klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus, steenbok Raphicerus campestris and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, as well as karoo species not usually found in mountain fynbos such as springbok Antidorcas marsupialus.
Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa
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Pannonica, better known as Nica, married Baron Jules de Koenigswarter and became a devoted patron of the New York jazz scene.
Rothschild, Dame Miriam.
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`With admirable virtue for cleansing the skin from all discolour, such as sunburn, freckles, swarthy, yellow, or tawny colour.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Myrtle Beach is often called the golfing capital of the world, and it was the intracoastal island golfing community of Barefoot Resort, where the Swartzes live, that sustained much of the damage.
Undefined
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He is lowbrowed, swarthy, ill kept, and wears rings in his ears.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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`With admirable virtue for cleansing the skin from all discolour, such as sunburn, freckles, swarthy, yellow, or tawny colour.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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He feels a certain peace, clinging to the side of Swartberg Pass: The clouds are like huge silver battleships, the dusks like golden liquids—the Karoo is a place of raw light and monumental skies and relentless silence.
Memory Wall
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The meeting on Monday quickly adopted proposals for either the downlisting or upgrading of 32 species, from the Argentinian population of the broad-snouted caiman, a relative of the crocodile, and the pearly mussels in the United States, to the Java sparrow and two rare South Africa trees, the Swartland sugarbush and the marsh rose.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A closely related species is _L. pergamenus_ (Swartz) Fr., which resembles it very closely, but has a longer, stuffed stem, and thinner, more pliant pileus, which is more frequently irregular and eccentric, and not at first umbilicate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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I'll need to consult my swarth-o-meter, but the child doesn't look generically "black" to me.
Hillary Camp To Orlando Patterson: We Do Have Black Child In 3 A.M. Ad
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He was extraordinary tall and broad of shoulder; his complexion was swarthy, and fierce black eyes glittered from deep-set sockets in his dark face.
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Fedallah Personal Description: Tall, swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from his steel-like lips.
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He was swarthy and well-built, with dark hair and a moustache.
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Damage to the popular and heavily-used Meiringspoort pass through the Swartberg Mountains, a major link to the Klein Karoo and Garden Route, appeared to be much more extensive than thought, de Witt said after inspecting the damage this week.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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A swarthy daughter a asparagus grower, in culottes , shirt, and bandanna, pedaled past on her bicycle.
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All three were for a short while together -- Hendrik holding his yager cocked and ready, while Swartboy grasped his bow and arrows.
The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
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Studying the cultural influences on people's delusions or persecutory thinking, and looking at different aspects of culture and how they effect people's behavior, is a legitmate area of inquiry," Dr. Swartz said.
Mental illness expert: We should be asking whether political climate helped trigger shooting
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The 'black Ethiopes' are a favourite image for making comparisons between women: Sylvia's fairness 'Shows Julia but a swarthy Ethiope' (The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.6.26).
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McKinnon thrang with the dealers, and Mirren not far off still sonsy -- when we passed there I saw that Margaret was all trembling; and when we saw Bryde, tall and swarthy, coming to us, I saw the smiling in her eyes and her face aglow.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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I am 25 years old, and I underwrite bonds for a Bail Bonds company in Swartz Creek, Michigan.
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Stampt with my signet are the swarthy children of the sun:
Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
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Borrow's life, for, soon after, when he first came among gypsy tents, and saw the long-haired woman with skin dark and swarthy like that of a toad, and a particularly evil expression, and when her husband threatened to baste the intruder with a ladle, the boy broke forth into what in Romany would be called a "gillie," or ditty, ending --
Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration Norwich, July 5th, 1913
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The swarthy craftmaster swung off the driver's seat of the cart, still holding the leads.
Cadmian's Choice
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I was vaguely aware of a young man beyond her, a swarthy, slim specimen who watched me suspiciously.
ANTI-ICE
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Your illiteracy completely nullifies your argument. swarty wrote on January 30, 2008 9: 15 PM:
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Her swarthy fingers fairly raced over the strings, "like little spiders," and she ended up this time with a jaunty shout of "Ganda" or "Gassa," and with flashing eyes banged on the table with her little fist.
Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
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Nordla's ports are far closer to Bruel and Val-murl than Swartheld is.
Ordermaster
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And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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-- Tony blushes her swarthy crimson: Diana, fluttering, rebukes her; but Diana is the appeasable
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Every slightly swarthy man who emerged from the arrivals gate got his picture taken.
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He was at the wheel, a small, well-knit, muscular man of say forty-five, with black hair graying on the temples, a big eagle-face, swarthy, with keen, intelligent black eyes.
CHAPTER XIII
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The swarthy figure jogging through the centre of Amsterdam might only have been vaguely familiar last week had it not been for the slightly grubby Hearts training top he was wearing.
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So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartzs money, George interposed.
XXI. A Quarrel about an Heiress
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`With admirable virtue for cleansing the skin from all discolour, such as sunburn, freckles, swarthy, yellow, or tawny colour.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Oh Billy Shaheen, now this? swarty wrote on December 13, 2007 8: 28 AM:
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Camp Hits Hillary Over Campaign Official Who Brought Up His Past Drug Use
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A plain child with swarthy features, she would turn into an auburn-haired beauty with dimples, large blue eyes and long, slim legs.
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He's stumpy and swarthy, with a quick mind and aptitude for getting in trouble.
Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud: Book summary
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The guest speaker was Dr Christina Swart-Opperman, the Namibian Businesswoman of the Year 2002.
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He was a priest, but a sinister one: swarthy, blunt-featured and built like a pugilist.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Rental cars charlotte awhile for the swarthiness the apprehension of any azalea he has apraxic in a unmalleability or negligence anapsid, we are rectilineal at, bitingly, an nutrient huckster.
Rational Review
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Fearon reappeared holding a towel, his black hair glistening wet and rivulets running down his swarthy skin.
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My favorite here was the Redcat Amber, which struck a nice balance between the pale and the swarthy.
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He was middle-aged, a swarthy, stocky man with the fine hands of a desk worker.
THE DISPOSSESSED
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Other political parties, like the NP, have nothing else to campaign about and can no longer use their" swart - "and" rooigevaar "tactics and are now reverting to using the" moving parliament gevaar ".
OPPOSITION USING "MOVING PARLIAMENT GEVAAR" AS ELECTION CAMPAIGN
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A whole generation of Coast Guard officers had learned the use of the sextant from this swarthy, overweight professional.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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The four classes are thralls (slaves who are described as swarthy, twisted, and ugly), karls (freeman farmers, described as strong and ruddy, of red hair and complexion), jarls (earls, described as fair of skin and complexion), and the kings (even fairer than the jarls).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past
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She is brought coral and pearls in a conch by a young negress whose dark skin distracts attention from her own swarthy Breton complexion.
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Standing upon the lonely sea shore, Uriah recalled the swarthy, leering face of Sam Jones, recently punished for infraction of discipline, and the crooked smile of Martin, he who puffed everlastingly at his pipe and wore a red handkerchief for a turban and earrings of heavy gold.
The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country
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So there's some good news. swarty wrote on January 29, 2008 1: 31 PM:
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`swart' is archaic
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So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz's money," George interposed.
Vanity Fair
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Tough, swarthy men milled about with bales and ropes.
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Beyond the wide court slept a dark abyss, and into the abyss there poured a white cascade of marble stairways, and widened out below into terraces and balconies with fair white statues on them, and descended again in a wide stairway, and came to lower terraces in the dark, where swart uncertain shapes went to and fro.
"I run off where the drifts get deeper."
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All this makes European football look like one of those dingy dive bars where a dozen or so swarthy, unshaven toughs chase two or three belles.
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The beady eyes of the swarthy man focused on his like a snake upon its prey, and he hunched up, balling his fists, his body lean and ornery.
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Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks.
Kenilworth
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My maternal grandfather came from North Wales, and judging by the swarthy skins he bequeathed to his children, the Spaniards from the scattered Spanish Armada had some responsibility there.
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Swart star: the Dogstar, called swarthy because its heliacal rising in ancient times occurred soon after midsummer.
Notes: Book Second. Palgrave, Francis T
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A slender, swart-skinned man, lithe of figure and graceful, stepped forward to the open space before the table.
CHAPTER 26
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What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to balk All hope of greenness?
The Waste Lands
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A swarthy, warty face half covered in hair, the narrow eyes netted with wrinkles, the expression both sly and somehow desperate.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The four were swarthy men, and, unlike the Greeks they were seeking to oppose, their swart was a peculiarity of birth, a racial sign.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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There's also a chiller cabinet with organic dairy and soya products, including organic milk from Frank Morphet, at Swarthmoor.
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Presently she added, O my lord Nur al-Din, an thou desire to nonsuit separation, be on thy guard against a swart-visaged oldster, blind of the right eye and lame of the left leg; for he it is who will be the cause of our severance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The people of Nwhagen have skin ranging from swarthy to dark olive in color.
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Fred had middled it straight through college her only life until then and had come out believing that even if she would never seem strong, swarthy, butch, or scary, at least she could try not to seem like a titmouse.
The Sitzer
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the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain
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Jackson's creation of an army from leather-shirted Kentucky riflemen, gay Creoles from the Creole Quarter of the Crescent City, swarthy
The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
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Otherwise, your take on "heteronormativity" and Swarthmore's attack thereon is spot on.
Swarthmore, conquering heteronormativity with pornographic chalkings.
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And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love.
THE STORY OF JEES UCK
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Elsewhere at the party, a swarthy portrait artist made googly eyes and thickly accented passes at Sheree, but the woman only had eyes for her own giant-sized image.
'Real Housewives of Atlanta' recap: Breaking Up with NeNe | EW.com
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The door was opened by a great swarthy bear of a man in a blue jacket and trousers made of sailcloth.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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He was Edward Rose, a swarthy man with black, Cherokee, and white blood in his veins.
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Police said the man had a swarthy complexion, was generally unkempt, around 5ft 10 in tall and slim.
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a lean, swarthy fellow was peering through the window, grinning impudently
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The fauna in the Swartberg and Cederberg protected areas reflects their location close to the fynbos-Karoo interface with species such as grysbok Raphicerus melanotis, grey rhebuck Pelea capreolus and klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus, steenbok Raphicerus campestris and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, as well as karoo species not usually found in mountain fynbos such as springbok Antidorcas marsupialus.
Cape Floral Protected Areas, South Africa
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Exorbitantly priced restaurants, for one week, set up a special menu for us swarthy groundlings.
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Presently she added, O my lord Nur al-Din, an thou desire to nonsuit separation, be on thy guard against a swart-visaged oldster, blind of the right eye and lame of the left leg; for he it is who will be the cause of our severance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The welder was a divorcee in his late 30s called Bob Craddock, a swarthy, no-nonsense type who instantly took a shine to me.
A bit of bonhomie
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Hur haz bin a reel edumakation, letz mii tayle yew.. frum beir tu Swartzwald Kuchen takes her 2 days to build one.
Basement kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Hastily, but not carelessly, induing himself in these articles of disguise, he then proceeded to stain his fair cheeks with a preparation which soon gave them a swarthy hue.
The Disowned — Complete
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The number of purely white People in the World is proportionally very small…in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are Germans also, the Saxons only accepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth.
Think Progress » Pat Buchanan’s Anti-Hispanic Rhetoric Echoes Earlier Anti-Immigrant Hysteria
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Police Captain Blackie Swart confirmed that a scrapyard employee was to appear in court today for receiving stolen property.
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All this makes European football look like one of those dingy dive bars where a dozen or so swarthy, unshaven toughs chase two or three belles.
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There was a gravity in his look, but that was not from any gravity of spirits; it was his swarth complexion that gave him this appearance, aided, no doubt, by several lines of "ambeer" proceeding from the corners of his mouth in the direction of the chin.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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Well, onct ole Hank Swartzman swatted him over the head with a swingletree.
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains
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He was now ready to improvize, and dashed thumb and finger on the zither, tossing up his face, swarthy-flushed: "There was a steinbock with a beard.
Vittoria — Volume 5
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The small swarthy beetle of a king, as he appears in Carle Vanloo's portrait at Versailles (not at all like Boucher's Phoebus), was insatiate.
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What made those holes and rents In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk All hope of greenness?
The Dark Tower
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And my broad accent, my swarthy complexion, my unseamanlike costume, adapted to the climate, all seemed to contradict my statement that I was an American sailor.
Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
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Lean could go either way, it makes sense describing a magazine or a human, but swarthy is a word that has sexual connotations and creates a spark of juxtaposition when placed next to periodicals, injecting an almost comedic element to the opening.
O’Hara : Jeffrey McDaniel : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Obviously well under twenty years of age, the shaveling advocate was of average height and stocky physique, black-haired and swarthy of complexion: not an advocate who would transfix by sheer physical presence, though his face was pleasant enough.
The First Man in Rome
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Damage to the popular and heavily-used Meiringspoort pass through the Swartberg Mountains, a major link to the Klein Karoo and Garden Route, appeared to be much more extensive than thought, de Witt said after inspecting the damage this week.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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They were all the rage in the scifi stories I was raised with and nothing turns me off more than to know that some intrepid soul is going on a Hero's Journey with and elf, a wizard and a swarthy man-at-arms by his side.
I'm not sure how I feel about this
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Perrault's ‘Bluebeard’ is the story of a rich, middle-aged gentleman, named for his swarthy chin and saturnine manner, who marries a young woman.
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That he loved her, on the other hand, was as clear as day, and she consciously delighted in beholding his love-manifestations — the glowing eyes with their tender lights, the trembling hands, and the never failing swarthy flush that flooded darkly under his sunburn.
Chapter 20
