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

O voice tinct with the spirit's sweetness, Last tone of heaven's clear harmonies Ere in the silence of wide space it dies, Music's completeness!

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Cassels, Walter Richard

What though it be only an azoic extract of intense potato, dimly tinct with sargasso and macaroni—it has a pleasing warmth and bulk.

From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher

From thee the sapphire, solid ether, takes Its hue cerulean; and, of evening tinct, The purple streaming amethyst is thine.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grainéd spots As will not leave their tinct.

From The Canadian Elocutionist by Howard, Anna Kelsey