Swarthy

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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. ❋ George W. Williams (1870)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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). ❋ Unknown (2010)

We can call the swarthy man in the commercial Walid Ibn Horton. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Elma Ehrlich Levinger (N/A)

—Swart star: the Dogstar, called swarthy because its heliacal rising in ancient times occurred soon after midsummer. ❋ Francis T. Palgrave (1875)

They wake the slumbering bride long before Don Miguel calls his swarthy retainers to the day's march. ❋ Richard Savage (1874)

Pliny noted in his Naturalis Historia that his fellow Romans preferred to mix the "swarthy" wheat of Cyprus with the "white wheat of Alexandria" to produce a lighter loaf. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I fully expected, in the months after 9/11, the reaction of America: the targeting of "swarthy" males as suspects, the occasional violence against Moslems or even people who look Moslem (that includes, unfortunately for them, Mexicans), the both overt and subtle racism against Arabs and Islam. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They had no idea that this guy was kind of swarthy looking. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Essentially, there's no racism here: not, at least, based on how "swarthy" people are. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Liberals in the progressive movement, who were concerned about protecting the integrity and morality of American society, were in the fore-front of those who feared the new hordes of "swarthy" immigrants. ❋ Norman Coombs (N/A)