It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist!
At this period the earth sloped downwards; the light took a uniform tint. We were at a depth of a hundred and five yards and twenty inches, undergoing a pressure of six atmospheres.
20000 Leagues Under The Sea
Your pleasures, by your own account, have been few; but I daresay you did exist in a kind of artist's dreamland while you blent and arranged these strange tints. Did you sit at them long each day?"
One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.
Jane Eyre
But the most curious circumstance is, that it secretes from the skin of its belly, when handled, a most beautiful carmine-red fibrous matter, which stains ivory and paper in so permanent a manner that the tint is retained with all its brightness to the present day: I am quite ignorant of the nature and use of this secretion.
Some of the water placed in a glass was of a pale reddish tint; and, examined under a microscope, was seen to swarm with minute animalcula darting about, and often exploding.
The Voyage of the Beagle
Viewed from a hilltop it reflects the color of the sky; but near at hand it is of a yellowish
tint next the shore where you can see the sand, then a light green, which gradually deepens to a uniform dark green in the body of the pond.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
He was always well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare."
in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
In the horse we see this tendency strong whenever a dun
tint appears--a
tint which approaches to that of the general colouring of the other species of the genus.
The Origin of Species
This milk was very sweet and good, and a beautiful transparent bluish
tint; but in order to get cream from it in the most economical way, a peculiar process was necessary.
Tramp Abroad
In some parts green was very distinct, such as springs, according to Julius Schmidt, from the seas of "Serenity and Humors." Barbicane also noticed large craters, without any interior cones, which shed a bluish
tint similar to the reflection of a sheet of steel freshly polished.
Round The Moon
Far away on each hand stretch the rich pastures, and the patches of dark earth made ready for the seed of broad-leaved green crops, or touched already with the
tint of the tender-bladed autumn-sown corn.
The Mill on the Floss
No
tint could be more ravishing, no lustre more superb.
The Innocents Abroad
But in the corridors that followed the suite, there stood, opposite to each window, a heavy tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that projected its rays through the
tinted glass and so glaringly illumined the room.
Raven