tinct
Example Sentences
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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 underpeep her lids To see the enclos'd lights, now canopied Under those windows, white and azure, lac'd With blue of heaven's own tinct!
From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
By thine ey's tinct enobled thus,155 Time layes him vp; he's pretious.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man's thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter, like the others, meeting mine with countermine.
From The Nether World by Gissing, George
It has a slight "tang" of archaism—just enough to suggest "lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon," or the "spice and balm" of Miller's sea-winds.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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