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The loveliest of them, the subtly toned “Perfect X Series: Nailing Tints and Wisps,” features the least legible X.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2015

Tints of rose and gold and violet were washed upon it as if painted by the softest brush.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

Tints of azure and purple crept over the moors; the whitening sky showed rifts of blue; it was a beautiful morning.

From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

The "Songs for Music" appeared in 1874 in a volume called Songs by Four Friends, except the two last poems, "Anemones" and "Autumn Tints."

From Verses for Children and Songs for Music by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

Tints so exquisitely soft are not to be defined in words; it is pleasanter to sum them up in the phrase ‘all golden,’ as I did formerly, when there was no need for precision.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick