swarthy

Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.

the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. 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

Mason: "Okay, how do I look, really?"

Betty: "…'Swarthy.'"

Mason: "Well, is that good?"

Betty: "Depends if you like 'swarthy.'"

Mason: "Do you like 'swarthy'?"

Betty: "Not particularly."