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
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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
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
Silvers flushed To amethyst and tinct with gold.
From Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Lowell, Amy
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)