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
A little too much lucent syrup tinct with cinnamon, don't you think?
From Ponkapog Papers by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
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
It has a slight "tang" of archaism—just enough to suggest "lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon," or the "spice and balm" of Miller's sea-winds.
From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose
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
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