| I smeared my face with Jolen creme bleach, trying to obliterate my swarthiness. |
| In singular contrast to a complexion dark almost to swarthiness, his eyes were large and of an intense steel-blue. |
| The sharp sweet bloom of her beauty, fresh in swarthiness, under the whipping Easter, cried out against that loathed inhumanity. |
| He had delicate features, redeemed from effeminacy by the swarthiness of his complexion, and his quick intensity of expression. |
| From the cheek-bones up he looked like an Indian, and expressed a stolid power and swarthiness. |
| His face was dark almost to swarthiness and his cheeks and chin were smoothly shaven. |
