Sentence examples for dark bride from inspiring English sources

"The Dark Bride" is another reporter's novel, full of tantalizing repartee and details too piquant and quirky to have been invented.

The title of "The Dark Bride" refers to a starving motherless Indian child, "a wild-haired, slippery, surly tadpole" who metamorphoses into a legendary beauty, the most sought-after prostitute in the oil fields beyond the mythic river town of Tora in the 40's, when the fabled Tropical Oil Company, the Troco, a branch of Standard Oil of New Jersey, had the concession to Colombia's oil.

With "Hot Sur," Restrepo returns to the subject of immigration, which she addressed in "The Dark Bride" and "The Wandering Multitude".

But if you're familiar with Restrepo's previous novels, several of which have been published in English -- "Leopard in the Sun," "The Dark Bride," "Delirium" -- you know that she specializes in hooking readers from the first page with dramatic set-ups that could've been lifted from a crime thriller or a telenovela.

Sweetness's husband Louis could not bring himself to love a child with skin as dark as Bride's.

He teases the audience with hints about his identity: his circumcision, his attendance at Catholic boarding school, a photograph of his blond mother and one of his dark-haired bride on their wedding day.

Using one shade lighter for dark haired brides and the color of your darkest brow hair for blondes, lightly brush a tinted powder over brows.

It's so covered in dense hawthorn and blackthorn that it looks like the fire swamp in The Princess Bride: dark, dangerous, unwelcoming.

The groom wears a dark suit, the bride's in a rose or light blue afternoon dress or a silk suit with matching pumps and a little hatlike doodad.

And, it is natural that beauty and the notion of self-image are on her mind as at the centre of her new book is a striking, dark-skinned woman called Bride who tries to shield herself from her own past with surface beautification.

The bride, her dark hair piled on top of her head and a string of pearls around her neck, tried on six dresses, the last of which had a scooped, off-the-shoulder neckline, a tight bodice, and a full skirt, and was decorated with white lace flowers.