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
"Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained ____ As will not leave their tinct."
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Joseph M. (Joseph Morris) Bachelor
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 William Shakespeare
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
About eight o'clock in the evening, a noise is heard, dis- tinct even above the raging of the hurricane.
From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Jules Verne
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