brigantine - sailing ship. two-masted vessel with square-rigged foremast and fore-and-aft main-mast
swarthy - dark-complexioned
lineament - feature (often plural)
singular - 1. remarkable 2. unusual 3. unique
curdle - turn into curd, coagulate
animadversion - n criticism, censure
gaunt - lean, haggard
Last of The Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (1826). "Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burnished sun" (Merchant of Venice).
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