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  • Syrian day laborers lined the side of the road, hungry-looking men with sun-dark skin, all wearing red-and-white polyester Santa hats.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Syrian day laborers lined the side of the road, hungry-looking men with sun-dark skin, all wearing red-and-white polyester Santa hats.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • It is as if the god Pan really had his home among these sun-bleached stones and tough, sun-dark trees.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • He seemed only brimming with high spirits, and his sun-dark face, full hair, and white, even teeth, though undeniably handsome, did not appeal to me personally (which was, frankly, a great relief, following the memory of a couple of very disconcerting moments with a man in the Ruskin case).

    The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998

  • Clothed and armed like the Maidens, they were as tall as Rand or taller, lions to the Maidens 'leopards, hard-faced sun-dark men with cold eyes of blue or green or gray.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • The young Tairen lord had been a plump, pink-cheeked man when Mat gambled with him in the Stone of Tear, but he had grown harder and sun-dark since coming north.

    Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994

  • Aviendha turned to see what Amys was staring at; when her eyes found him, bright crimson suffused her face, then drained away so suddenly that even her sun-dark cheeks looked pale.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • Six sets of eyes, blue or green or gray, in sun-dark faces; Aiel could make hawks look tame.

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • Her smooth, vivid skin was nearer the hue of the sun-dark

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • The Field Superintendent, lank and sun-dark under a green palmetto hat, wearing a grotesquely large revolver, saluted Daniel from the open.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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