sun-blackened

They were silent, sitting around me in a circle, a dozen sun-blackened men with sun-blonded hair, as naked as the boy had been.

Enjoyment 2010

Another photo shows Scott and his comrades at the pole three months later -- five men in voluminous arctic wear, faces sun-blackened.

Polar Exploration for Armchair Travelers 2009

They were rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces, and an immensity of beard; their wide short trousers were confined about the waist by belts, often clasped with a rough plate of gold, and sustaining always a long knife, and in some instances, a sword.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

In the darkness inside, the charcoal fire on the dirt floor spit no tongues of red flame, the bellows did not hiss, the blacksmith lifted no red-hot steel with his lean, sun-blackened arms.

Kenzaburo Oe - Prose 1994

Two sun-blackened and queued seamen, stripped to the waist, watched him with dark unblinking eyes as he stepped down onto the deck.

Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Two sun-blackened and queued seamen, stripped to the waist, watched him with dark unblinking eyes as he stepped down onto the deck.

Conan The Unconquered Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

Lawrence Teck remained as before, his bearded face bowed down; but a slight tremor of horror passed through his shoulders under the sun-blackened skin.

Sacrifice Stephen French Whitman

He was still stiff and proud, but a swift smile crossed his face as he looked down upon us, half-naked and sun-blackened there in our dinky little craft.

The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927

They were rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces, and an immensity of beard; their wide, short trousers were confined about the waist by belts, often clasped with a rough plate of gold, and sustaining always a long knife, and in some instances, a sword.

XXI. The New England Holiday 1917

The strands of lean muscle about his emaciated mouth worked, and he made a little pressure of his sun-blackened hand on the deck, as if to verify its steepness and his own balance.

Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917