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  • At forty-four he looked ten years younger, a radiant and captivating man with unblemished olive-tinted skin, and his voice a melodious baritone.

    Excerpt: Bird of Another Heaven by James Houston 2007

  • A contemporary visitor to Johnson Hall, an English woman, described Molly Brant: Her features are fine and beautiful; her complexion clear and olive-tinted...

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Their color is a lightish, olive-tinted, reddish brown.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • These little creatures, in the absolute unconsciousness of innocence, with their beautiful faces, olive-tinted bodies, — all the darker, sad to say, from dirt, — their perfect docility, and absence of prying curiosity, are very bewitching.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The woman in her fifties, with olive-tinted skin, stepped out, glanced at her.

    Manhattan Is My Beat Deaver, Jeffery 1989

  • Her olive-tinted skin had in it a suggestion of pallor; but only a suggestion.

    The Last Woman Ross Beeckman

  • The visage is aquiline, olive-tinted, refined; but we can describe it more authentically in the terms of one of his enemies, Lieutenant de France, who became his prisoner in 1836, and who followed his movements for five months, taking down his daily talk and habits like

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

  • Suddenly, in the olive-tinted sky just above a range of rugged peaks, a black shape loomed.

    Lost on the Moon Or, in Quest of the Field of Diamonds Roy Rockwood

  • The mass of black, brown, and olive-tinted ignorance at that time in the South, was appalling.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Various

  • Stacks of golden bananas, olive-tinted dukus, rambutans like green chestnut-shells with scarlet prickles, amber star-fruit, brown salak, the "forbidden apple," bread-fruit, and durian offer an embarassing choice.

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

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