To the crowd, of course, he was a marvellous legend, and moving always in the glory of that legend he received their wondering awe—an awe tinged with contempt for his lack of ostentation and public splendour.
Its delicate walls were tinged like a blush; its floor was waxed; a square of brilliant carpet covered its centre; its small round table shone like the mirror over its hearth; there was a little couch, a little chiffonnière, the half-open, crimson-silk door of which, showed porcelain on the shelves; there was a French clock, a lamp; there were ornaments in biscuit china; the recess of the single ample window was filled with a green stand, bearing three green flower-pots, each filled with a fine
His dark paletôt, his jetty hair, were tinged with many a reflex of crimson; his Spanish face, when he turned it momentarily, answered the sun's animated kiss with an animated smile.
Pendent from the dome, flamed a mass that dazzled me—a mass, I thought, of rock-crystal, sparkling with facets, streaming with drops, ablaze with stars, and gorgeously tinged with dews of gems dissolved, or fragments of rainbows shivered.
The melancholy of the moor, the death of the unfortunate pony, the weird sound which had been associated with the grim legend of the Baskervilles, all these things tinged my thoughts with sadness.
But Carlisle people knew nothing of this—would have thought him tinged with mild lunacy if they had known.
After a while, however, the manuscript was complete, and he handed it to his grandfather with a smile slightly tinged with anxiety.
Jay, aware that impropriety is the soul of wit, made observations in tones hardly above a whisper that might well have tinged the snowy tablecloth with a rosy hue.
The sad story of the novel Bitter Cold Nights, tinged with deep feeling of grief and desolateness, told of the suffering people underwent in the bitter years of the war.
" However, Ferguson and his group quickly realized that there was something very wrong when they came across hundreds of thousands of mussels that were tight-lipped and tinged with green.
Images on social media from Russia show mountainous landscapes tinged auburn, where usually they are pristine white.
But analysts suspect enforcement in China might be tinged with political goals.
The bamboo articles in Fujian province have more than ten different patterns including the Cross pattern and the flowering crabapple pattern,often tinged with gold or other colors to make it look more pretty.
《》 A series of loosely connected, magically tinged tales about personal and social justice.
The high-end restaurant cooks sophisticated Sichuan food with awe-inspiring presentations: abalone on spiced mung bean jelly, crispy ginseng root, and tiny spheres of apple poached in syrup tinged with fiery notes of green Sichuan pepper.
And we talk again and laugh again just as in earlier days, Except that the hair on our heads is tinged now with grey.
Her eyes were dreamily bright, her cheeks genuine peachblow, her expression a happy one, tinged with reminiscence.
" "Pop, pop," sounded in the air, and the two wild geese fell dead among the rushes, and the water was tinged with blood.
