Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths. 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 132, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
Grassy swarth, close cropped by nibbling sheep. 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:
[…] What made those holes and rents
In the dock's harsh swarth leaves, bruised as to baulk
All hope of greenness? […] 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:
a swarth complexion 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC: