What is "dark-skinned"

Usage examples of "dark-skinned".

She was a dark-skinned Ammonite, her eyelids blackened with kohl, her arms ajingle with crude golden bracelets in the shape of serpents, too many of them, and too noisily jingling, her hair a flamboyant red from the dye of the henna plant.

The hovering dark-skinned anesthetist, who Betsy referred to as Madhuri, was ready to put her under.

Besides these primitive races there are the dark-skinned negroids of Bantu stock, commonly known in their tribal groups as Kaffirs, Zulu, Bechuana and Damara, which are again subdivided into many lesser groups.

Bos Kashi were the representatives of the Shan, secretive, dark-skinned little men whose sharp facial angles contrasted with their slanted eyes.

He dodged the lethal display and almost stepped into a small cookfire on which a dark-skinned Malayali couple were roasting rice dosa pancakes.

Almost every shade, from the ash-color of the Menominees through the cinnamon-red, copper, and bronze tints, may be found among the tribes formerly occupying the territory cast of the Mississippi, until we reach the dark-skinned Kaws of Kansas, who are nearly as black as the negro.

Her grandfather, one of the Merging Ones, was a big dark-skinned man with thick graying black hair.

Lopez left, to return several hours later with a dark-skinned, heavy browed companion, Pedro Perea, and the provisions Wells had ordered.

Nearby was a scattered settlement of houses outside which stood small, dark-skinned Quechua Indians dressed in ponchos, balaclavas and colourful woollen hats.

She smiled brilliantly at the dark-skinned Seychellois immigration officer as she slid the green United States passport with its golden eagle across the desk to him, but when she turned to her male companion she spoke in quick fluent German.

Commander Tolan, the dark-skinned first officer, sat slumped over his science station, his face hideously illuminated in the lurid red glare of its monitor.

In a large undulating playroom two naked dark-skinned children, boy and girl, were rolling a giant beachball along.

As Phillips came up the passageway that led to the main bath he saw fifteen or twenty of them lolling in the water or padding languidly about, while temporaries of the dark-skinned Mohenjo-daro type served them drinks and pungent little morsels of spiced meat as though this were some sort of luxury resort.

At the foot of the saddlebacked steps lay another body, a young, dark-skinned woman who looked as if she had been placed there but an hour before.

They passed many arks and houseboats of fishermen moored among the tules, and the women and children, like the men in the boats, were dark-skinned, black-eyed, foreign.