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"Swart" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Tom is the name of my swart warthog.
1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
A nation strange, with visage swart
Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks , On whose fresh lap the swart - star sparely looks
I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face Shall be a hell to look upon […]
The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids
The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.
[…] unpierced ever With glitter of sun rays Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven Swartest night stretched over wretched men there.
Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
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to swart a living part
[…] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould […]
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