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

I mean to tinct C in sand-heat to-morrow, And give him imbibition.

From The Alchemist by Jonson, Ben

Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying medicine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring: 'twas mine, 'twas Helen's, Whoever gave it you.

From All's Well That Ends Well by Shakespeare, William

"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 Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

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