Uriah's cheeks lost colour, and an unwholesome paleness, still faintly tinged by his pervading red, overspread them.Ībove the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge. (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)Įvery instant now was in favour of Berks, and already his breathing was easier and the bluish tinge fading from his face. Our client had sat up with staring eyes and every tinge of colour struck from his astonished face. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)įor a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring with frightened eyes at his accuser. Holmes looked even thinner and keener than of old, but there was a dead-white tinge in his aquiline face which told me that his life recently had not been a healthy one. (The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) He read the thought upon my features, and his smile had a tinge of bitterness. That awful journal gets hold of my imagination and tinges everything with something of its own colour. Tincture (a substance that colors or dyes) Tincture (stain or tinge with a slight amount of a color) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tinge"): Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.Ĭolor color in colorise colorize colour colour in colourise colourize (add color to) Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singingĪffect bear on bear upon impact touch touch on (have an effect upon) Present simple: I / you / we / they tinge.
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