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

Artifice is the strength of the world, and in that same mask of paint and powder, shadowed with vermeil tinct and most trimly pencilled, is woman's strength.

From The Works of Max Beerbohm by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

To see th' inclosed Lights, now Canopied Vnder these windowes, White and Azure lac'd With Blew of Heauens owne tinct.

From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William

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