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  • It naturally turned upon the young girl who was so soon to become his bride, and in this connection life began again to assume its rose-tints of old, and he was led to wonder how it was he had so given way to grief and sadness.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

  • "Save for the boy, darling," Vaura smiles; releasing herself, her quickened heart-beats deepening the rose-tints in her cheeks.

    A Heart-Song of To-day Annie Gregg Savigny

  • Against the perfect rose-tints of a living sunrise sky,

    The California Birthday Book Various

  • The morning was bright and balmy; and the sun having risen some hours earlier even than the very early risers of the party, its beams by this time warmed the heavens and lit up the landscape, the rose-tints of dawn being succeeded by a golden glow all over the sky, the sea dancing in sympathy and sparkling in the sunlight -- being altogether too merry to look blue.

    Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • The matron, the nurses, and many of the little patients, were busy as so many bees that morning, before the sun had changed his first rose-tints to the shower of vivid gold with which he soon boldly deluged the water.

    The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

  • The flushing rose-tints of a tropical sunset glorify the landscape into transcendent beauty; the rude sculpture of the river crags, the black shadows of primeval forest, and the far-off gleam of the Indian Ocean, composing an ideal picture, enhanced by vague impressions of Infinity and

    Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

  • It is almost exclusively among the nobility that these personages are found, with their long, pale faces, painted in tender rose-tints, and silly, long necks which give them the appearance of storks.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • The rose-tints of the flesh and the deep tender blue of the eyes that smiled up at her, made the portrait seem a living thing.

    Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party Edyth Ellerbeck Read 1924

  • Her face still held the reflected happiness of the departed lovers, as the sky holds the rose-tints after the sun has gone.

    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • Her face still held the reflected happiness of the departed lovers, as the sky holds the rose-tints after the sun has gone.

    Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Caldwell Hegan. 1902

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