tinct

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The afternoon was green; this do I recall; the haze in the atmosphere pregnant with the tinct of leaf and grass, so the water, the sky, all appeared submerged.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The flame o' the taper Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids To see the enclosed lights, now canopied Under these windows white and azure, lac'd With blue of heaven's own tinct.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

Know, O my lord, that anon will come to us a little craft bearing a banner of azure tinct and all its planks are of chaunders and lign-aloes of Comorin, the most precious of woods.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Zola has several phases; one of them, I admit, blue as heaven's own tinct; but Holmes has only one phase, namely, pharisaism.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

But whence, Think you, this tinct of cinnamon that makes The savor of the dish.

From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton