tintings

She was clad in flowing, fluffy robes of soft material that reminded Dorothy of woven cobwebs, only it was colored in soft tintings of violet, rose, topaz, olive, azure, and white, mingled together most harmoniously in stripes which melted one into the other with soft blendings.

Love Letters 2010

There is a cloud-picture in the stream now whose hues are as manifold as those in an opal and as delicate as the tintings of a sea-shell.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

All this was merely am effect of the light, I believe -- of the freezing wind that wandered, nearly stagnating, through the chamber, and of the colors, tintings of green shaded with blue and black: viridian, berylline, and aquamarine, with tarnished gold and yellowed ivory here and there shining sullenly.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

Let me remark, however, that these beautiful tintings are not due to the action of frost, which is, on the contrary, highly prejudicial to them, as we may observe on several different occasions.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

Tender and soft their tintings, as gentle maiden's blush,

Home Lyrics

Marbles of perfect sheen and hue, sculptures and tintings rare,

The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon

Only the chirpings of those strange birds as they seek rest in darkness, the soft gurgling of the little stream below, and the rustle of countless leaves, break the silence with a satisfying existence, while the loneliness of that great star, your sun, is lost in its tintings of soft color, the fleeciness of the clouds, and the seeming companionship of green hills.

Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940

The maple grove was a burning bush of colour and the hedge of sweet-briar around the kitchen yard was a thing of wonder in its subtle tintings.

Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

Here and there the great granite precipices stood forth in old rose and royal purple; farther the shadows melted into mantles, not of black, but of softest lavender; mound upon mound of color swung before him as he glanced from peak to peak, -- the colors that only an artist knows, tintings instead of solid grounds, suggestions rather than actualities.

The White Desert Courtney Ryley Cooper 1913

A bridge spanned it midway and from there to its lower end, where an amber-hued belt of sand-hills shut it in from the dark blue gulf beyond, the water was a glory of many shifting hues -- the most spiritual shadings of crocus and rose and ethereal green, with other elusive tintings for which no name has ever been found.

Anne of Green Gables 1908