What is "swarth"

Usage examples of "swarth".

I could see the swarth face lighten up, with flash of eyes and teeth, as Mr.

The last hue of sunset had died from the swarth hills, and in the east were pale points of starlight.

The early tributaries of the river Elfinwater rose on Mallorstang ridge and rushed away down between Swarth Fell and Bleak Fell, until at the northern marches of Lallillir the river turned west through the last foothills of Swarth Fell and ran to the sea.

Dyrsse nods brusquely in return, but his eyes drift downhill from the green marble palace to the smooth waters of the Swarth River, held in its banks by the levies that stretch from above the capital more than fifty kays down to the great imperial port at Swartheld.

Later in the day, the swarth apparition was seen striding down the mountain road towards the village, hatless, and with such swift width of step and set resolution of countenance, that Arthur Price Williams, beholding him from afar from the Pig and Whistle doorway was seized with dire consternation, and hid behind the Dutch oven in the kitchen till he was past.

Along his upper lip, he had a narrow, neatly coifed swarth of whisker that extended out into waxed, sharply angled-up tips.

Andrew looked in amazement at the bloody swarth that had mowed through the square.

Thin, transparent foil flew off the other half of the original sheet in six-inch swarths, then eight-inch, then twelve.