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

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

The shrouds were of that cloth         Which Clotho weaveth in her blackest wrath:         The dismal tinct oppress'd the eye, that dwelt         Upon it long, like darkness to be felt.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Lamb, Mary

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