feint

Example Sentences

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Fair golden hair was, of all its teints, that which the ancient artists preferred.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander

No more the ruddy teints appear, with white Soft blended.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

The sky had warmer teints: I could not tell Whether the heavens lent color to the flowers, Or but reflected that which glowed in them.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller

Now unresisting Thebes, “Yields to a boy unarm'd; who never joys “In armies, steeds, nor swords;—but more in locks “With myrrh moist-dropping, garlands soft, and robes “Of various teints, with gold and purple gay.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.