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  • Her white bosom, gleaming amid rags, the baby with its transparent flesh-tints, and the brother, whose attitude promised a street arab in the future, touched the fancy with pathos by its almost graceful contrast with the long row of faces crimson with cold, in the midst of which sat this family group.

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • Her white bosom, gleaming amid rags, the baby with its transparent flesh-tints, and the brother, whose attitude promised a street arab in the future, touched the fancy with pathos by its almost graceful contrast with the long row of faces crimson with cold, in the midst of which sat this family group.

    The Commission in Lunacy 2007

  • He was of ordinary height; his face, which won upon all who saw him by its delicacy and sweetness, was warm in the flesh-tints, though without color, and relieved by a small moustache and imperial a la Mazarin.

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • In the daylight they still moaned, throwing their almost leafless branches about despairingly, their flesh-tints — dingy red — giving to the scene a strangely unfamiliar glow.

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • The artist explained that the dark and yellow tones relieved the face, and gave a delicacy to the flesh-tints.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • If I were in love to extremity of passion with Miss Lenox, or rather with her brilliant flesh-tints and her hands and feet, I should recover the moment I saw her at table.

    Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

  • The very clever arrangement of smoke in this painting prevents the flesh-tints of the sailors from assuming

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 30, 1891 Various

  • The colour scheme is much lighter than usual, the flesh-tints being especially fair, and the painting is another instance of those seeming efforts to adopt a less heavy palette, to which I have drawn attention in speaking of the Uffizi _Tondo_.

    Luca Signorelli Maud Cruttwell

  • Our versifiers are provided with admirable paper and gold pens, and our artists, young and old, with the colors Elliott once told an inquirer he made his marvellous flesh-tints with -- red, blue and yellow.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

  • The ivory must only be gummed at the top, for if gum were allowed to run under the face the flesh-tints would be darkened; the papers also must be gummed together at the top, and they should be somewhat larger than the ivory.

    Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young Various

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